News and Events
News and Events
News and Events
Biomedical engineering undergraduate students Sarah Propst and Angel Zubieta have been selected as award recipients from the Merck Engineering & Technology Fellowship Program.
The 2011–2012 academic year marks the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s 10th anniversary. Before that, research efforts in biomedical engineering were carried out through a graduate program that became active in the late 1960s.
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has recently announced the election of Professor Thomas E. Milner to its College of Fellows for outstanding contributions to the field of laser-based therapy and optical imaging, with particular emphasis on optical coherence tomography and laser surgery.
A University of Texas at Austin engineering professor and a cardiologist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have received a $300,000 award to develop a new imaging technique with the potential to predict, or even prevent, heart attacks.
Professor Michael Sacks and Professor John Zhang have both been appointed to the editorial boards of journals applicable to their fields of expertise.
Dr. Ning Jenny Jiang, a distinguished cancer researcher whose early work has contributed to understanding the immune response to diseases, has joined The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Carolyn Bayer, a biomedical engineering postdoctoral fellow in Professor Stanislav Emelianov’s laboratory, has been named the inaugural recipient of the J. Crayton Pruitt Scholar award.
