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Apr 26 1:00 pm

BME Dissertation Defense: Paul Boucher at Farrell Learning and Teaching Center

Apr 29 8:30 am

BME Day at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Apr 29 1:00 pm

Frank C. P. and Grace C. Yin Distinguished Lecture: Kathryn Nightingale, PhD at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

McKelvey Engineering students, alumni receive recognition from NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Two students won an NSF fellowship and several students and alumni received honorable mentions.

04.18.2024

McKelvey Engineering faculty receive tenure, promotions

The tenure appointments and promotions are effective July 1, 2024.

04.15.2024

Christine O’Brien is teaming with Leo Shmuylovich, MD, PhD, to mitigate the potential skin pigmentation bias in pulse oximeters. (Credit: iStock photo)

Skin pigmentation bias in pulse oximeters to get closer look

Christine O’Brien, Leo Shmuylovich, MD, PhD, seek to overcome bias that impacts marginalized community.

04.04.2024

Researchers ID protein responsible for gas vesicle clustering in bacteria

Finding could enable new synthetic biology applications.

04.02.2024

Michelle Oyen, associate professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Women’s Health Engineering, listens to student presentations in Engineering for Women’s Health, a unique course she designed to teach students how they can apply their engineering skills to improve women’s health. (Credit: Sid Hastings)

‘Where your passion meets the world’s needs’

Michelle Oyen leads first-of-its-kind course for students interested in women’s health.

04.01.2024

Hong Chen and her team, including doctoral student Chih-Yen Chien, developed a quality assurance protocol to ensure their guided focused ultrasound device and treatment is safe and functions consistently. (Credit: Chen lab)

Focused ultrasound technique gets quality assurance protocol

Hong Chen and team develop protocol to ensure safety, consistency.

03.27.2024

Washington University in St. Louis researchers, including Farshid Guilak, PhD, (left) and Christine T. N. Pham, MD, have received an award of up to $31 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a single-injection treatment that promotes tissue regeneration and restores joints.

Award of up to $31 million supports development of osteoarthritis treatment

Researchers, including Lori Setton in McKelvey Engineering, aim to create treatment that promotes tissue regeneration, restores joints.

03.26.2024

Clockwise from top left: Benzinger, Culver, Oyen, Yang, Wang, Stegh (Not pictured: Elliot Elson)

Seven faculty inducted as AIMBE fellows

Michelle Oyen and Lan Yang are among this year's inductees.

03.25.2024

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans are often used to detect lung and other cancers. A new study led by Abhinav Jha underscores the need for an objective, task-based evaluation of PET segmentation algorithms, which have become powerful tools supporting patient care and medical diagnostics. (Image: iStock)

AI-based algorithms need to be evaluated for their clinical applications

Abhinav Jha-led research focuses on developing algorithms to evaluate nuclear medicine images for clinical applications, such as cancer diagnosis and treatment.

03.18.2024