University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering
Speaker: Susan N. Thomas, Ph.D. Woodruff Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience Georgia Institute of Technology Date: Thursday, September 23, 2021 Time: 3:30-4:30 PM EDT Zoom – check email for link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu This virtual seminar will be held over Zoom. Students registered for BE 699 can …
Speaker: Guillermo Ameer, D.Sc. Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Surgery McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021 Time: 3:30-4:30 PM EDT Zoom – check email for link or contact ksas@seas.upenn.edu Location: Moore Room 216, 200 S. 33rd Street Abstract: Regenerative engineering is the convergence of advances in materials …
Each Penn Bioengineering (BE) student’s undergraduate experience culminates in Senior Design, a two-semester capstone project in which student teams conceive, design, and develop a bioengineering project, whether a medical device, molecular biological therapeutic, or research tool. Projects are inherently interdisciplinary, and can involve biomaterials, electronics, mechanics, molecular biology, nanotechnology, and microfluidics. Research and development is …
By GABE Outreach Chairs and Ph.D. students David Gonzalez-Martinez and David Mai Every spring, the Graduate Association of Bioengineers (GABE) at Penn partners up with iPraxis, an educational non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, to organize BETA Day, an event that brings together Bioengineering graduate students and local Philadelphia grade school students to introduce them to …
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by Mahelet Asrat The Department of Bioengineering is proud to congratulate Claudia Loebel, M.D., Ph.D. on her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Loebel is part of the University of Michigan’s Biological Sciences Scholar program, which recruits junior instructional faculty in major areas of …
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Manuela Teresa Raimondi was appointed Visiting Professor in Bioengineering in the Associated Faculty of the School of Engineering and Applied Science for the 2020-2021 academic year. Raimondi received her Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 2000 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. She is currently a Full Professor of Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano in the Department of …
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Christian Figueroa-Espada, a Penn Bioengineering Ph.D. student and National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow, was selected as a Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) Scholar from a highly-competitive pool of 85,000 applicants for their 2020-2021 program. One of only 5,100 awardees, Figueroa-Espada’s scholarship comes from the Toyota Motor North America Program. As an HSF Scholar, he has access …
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The nature of scientific progress is often summarized by the Isaac Newton quotation, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Each new study draws on dozens of earlier ones, forming a chain of knowledge stretching back to Newton and the scientific giants his work referenced. Scientific publishing and …
The Department of Bioengineering is proud to congratulate Postdoctoral Researcher Brittany Taylor, PhD on her appointment as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. Taylor’s appointment will begin in January 2021 after four years as …
The Office of the Provost awards the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students in recognition of their profound impact on education across the University. Nominations come directly from undergraduate and graduate students in their courses and are narrowed down to ten awardees each year. Victoria Muir, a graduate student in the Department …
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