News and Events
News and Events
News and Events
UT’s Office of the Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies has awarded Yuan-I (Nina) Chen, a graduate student working with Dr. Tim Yeh, with the 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award for Mathematics, Engineering, Physical Science, and Biological and Life Sciences.
Aaron Tasset, a second-year graduate student working in Evan Wang’s lab, was recently awarded the Department of Defense (DoD) National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship, which will provide him with three years of support.
Two Texas BME faculty, Assistant Professor Sapun Parekh and Assistant Professor Samantha Santacruz, have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CAREER awards are among the NSF’s most prestigious in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department.
Three Texas BME students, Adrian Jeyakumar, Morgan Owens, and Andrew Robinson, were honored with Student Leader Awards from the Cockrell's Engineering Student Life in recognition of their work to motivate, guide, mentor, and support Cockrell School's student organizations.
Three current students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and several admitted prospective graduate students have received 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships that will allow them to pursue graduate studies in the biomedical field.
Cancer researchers, including Dr. Amy Brock, talk with Nature about expanding the tumor barcoding toolkit to track cancer cells over time in order to learn about mutations that cause therapy resistance, including with Brock's innovative ClonMapper technique.
Heart attacks and strokes triggered by electrical misfiring in the heart are among the biggest killers on the planet. Now, researchers have created a “liquid wire” that, when injected into pig hearts, can guide the organs to a normal rhythm. Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez presented this new development at the American Chemical Society.
Associate Professor Janet Zoldan has received a $2.26 million R01 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop innovative hydrogel systems that will facilitate vessel growth to treat peripheral artery disease.
For the past two years, most hands-on K-12 outreach projects either halted completely or shifted to online learning due to the ongoing global pandemic. But as time progressed, it became evident that many students were not thriving in this virtual-only learning environment. Teaching in STEM fields particularly lends itself to interactive projects and in-person experiments to support the understanding of complex concepts and processes.
This spring, a team of Texas engineers was finally able to conduct an in-person hands-on outreach learning project for K-12 students as part of the Science Mill Homeschool Day project. Manuel Rausch, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Sapun Parekh, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and biomedical engineering graduate student Ella Sugerman, created an outreach project that focuses on teaching K-12 students about the mechanics of blood clots and the importance of studying them.
The Texas Exes has awarded Aditi Merchant, a junior in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, with their annual Edward S. Guleke Student Excellence Award. Merchant was recognized for her extensive outreach, research, and work experience as well as her strong academic record.
