News and Events
News and Events
News and Events
The University of Texas at Austin recognized Charles Tate, the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s External Advisory Committee Chair, with a Presidential Citation for strengthening the university through his contributions in leadership, effort, and philanthropy.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Professor Michael Sacks and collaborators a $2.48 million, four-year grant to develop a novel approach for the computational simulation of the functional performance of bioprosthetic heart valves.
The Student Engineering Council (SEC) selected Professor Andrew Dunn as the Most Outstanding Faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering for 2011–2012. This is the third year Dr. Dunn has been recognized with this honor.
Dr. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen has recently been appointed as the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Mahadevan-Jansen received her master's and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and joined Vanderbilt's engineering faculty as an assistant professor in 1998.
Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering are developing imaging technologies to help doctors diagnose and treat diseases more effectively.
Three biomedical engineering graduate students earned poster awards at Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) 2012, an annual event hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate Engineering Council.
Michael Schnieders, a postdoctoral researcher working in Professor Pengyu Ren’s lab, has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) 2012 Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG).
The Cockrell School of Engineering has honored Professor Christine E. Schmidt as a Distinguished Engineering Graduate, the highest honor bestowed on alumni.
Undergraduate student James Salazar is a recipient of a Cockrell School Student Leadership Award.
University of Texas at Austin researchers have demonstrated a new and more effective method for regrowing blood vessels in the heart and limbs—a research advancement that could have major implications for how we treat heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world.
