General
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Annual BioEngineering Undergraduate Research Symposium
– 22 Mar 2017 – The Annual Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held the evening of Friday April 21st form 6-9:30 p.m. in the Warnock Engineering Building. Our seniors will have research posters to show, as well as presentation on their work geared toward a lay audience.
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Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium.
– 24 Mar 2016 – The Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday, April 22nd from 6-9:30 p.m. in the Warnock Engineering Building. -
Academic Advisor Heather Palmer Honored by the College.
– 21 Aug 2015 – As part of The 2015 Outstanding Staff and Teaching Awards from the University of Utah’s College of Engineering, Heather Palmer received the Outstanding Staff Award. Congratulations Heather!
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2015 Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium
– 24 Apr 2015 – The Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Friday the 24th of April, 2015. There will be two poster sessions and two podium sessions that will take place between the hours of 6 and 9:30 p.m. Posters will be able to be viewed in the Catmull Gallery of the Warnock Engineering Building, and presentations will be in WEB 1230 and 1250. -
LIGHT LINE from U Biomedical Engineers Takes 2nd in National Inventors Competition
– 24 Nov 2014 – Former and current U biomedical engineering students Mitch Barneck, Ahrash Poursaid, and Nate Rhodes, as well as health sciences student Martin de la Presa, who have formed Veritas Medical LLC, took second in the graduate student category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
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Festschrift to be held Feb 8 in honor of Richard Normann, Professor, inventor of Utah Electrode Array
– 05 Feb 2013 – German for a volume of work compiled in tribute of a scholar, this festschrift will consist of a symposium with talks from local, national, and international speakers representing key stages of Normann’s career.
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New home for Biomedical Engineering
– 28 Dec 2011 – The Biomedical Engineering Department will be moving to the new
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Graduate student job opportunities — check it out!
– 21 Jul 2011 – We’ve got some new research/employment opportunities on our jobs page, including one for several grad students in cardiovascular MRI. Have a look soon.
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Biomedical Engineering Senior Symposium to take place Tuesday April 19th at 6 p.m. in WEB 1230 and 1250.
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New Special Topics in Tissue Engineering Course
– 10 Dec 2009 – A new Special Topics in Tissue Engineering class (5900/6900, 1 unit) will be offered in Spring 2010 by Brenda Mann, PhD and Anna Astashkina, MS (TA). The class is offered in journal club format and will focus on giving undergraduates tools to succeed in research environments and upper division engineering classes. During the course of the class, students will be exposed to a wide breadth of scientific literature in tissue engineering, and provided tools to critically discuss and evaluate papers. The class will focus of technique discussion and scientific background research. The grading will be based on paper presentation and class participation.
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College of Engineering to host the 2nd Annual Youth Summit on Energy for high school students
– 15 Apr 2009 – Attend and learn about important projects in Chemical, Electrical, Civil and Environmental, Computer, Mechanical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering departments.
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• Dr. Willem J. Kolff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, dies at 97
– 12 Feb 2009 – widely considered the ‘Father of Artificial Organs’
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• Placement Rate for Graduates Exceeds 90%
– 17 Dec 2008 – in Medical and Biological Engineering Nationwide, AIMBE Survey Finds
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College of Engineering Day — A free half day event for those interested in Engineering.
– 19 Sep 2008 – Takes place October 25, 2008, 9-12am, Warnock Engineering Building. Tour laboratories, view presentations, explore research. Registration required.
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• Wired.
– 07 Sep 2008 – PC Magazine and The Princeton Review rank the University of Utah #3 among America’s Top Wired Colleges, 2008 Edition.
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• New imaging technology to study hip dysplasia
– 03 Sep 2008 –
Drs. Jeff Weiss
,
Andy Anderson
and
Chris Peters
team to improve outcomes of patients suffering from hip dysplasia
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• First Annual High School Youth Summit on Bio-Innovation
– 31 Mar 2008 – The summit will bring together High School Students, Researchers and Students from the University of Utah College of Engineering, and Business Leaders from Utah’s Bio-Industry.
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• Microbicides: Blocking and Attacking HIV
– 30 Jan 2008 – The spread of HIV is growing at a staggering rate, but new technology is promising
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• Sexual Orientation Hard-Wired in Worm Brains
– 25 Oct 2007 –
Prof. Eric Jorgensen
and his team report tha sexual orientation appears to be hard wired into the nematode worm nervous system, and tweaking the wiring can result in worms attracted to members of the same sex
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- 26 Sep 2007 – Dr. Patrick Kiser had four undergraduates working in his lab last year. All three of them were on published manuscripts late in 2006 or early 2007. One of these students was excepted to Rice University’s competitive REU program in training researcher clinicians. Mellisa Hanson will work with Rebecca Richards- Kortum working on OCT methods for detecting cervical cancer in resource poor settings.
- 25 Sep 2007 – Dr. Sarang Joshi is the Chairman and Program Comittee Member for the MICCAI-Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy.
- 25 Sep 2007 – Dr Edward Hsu established curriculim for Biomedical Engineering Graduate Research Track in Imaging. He created 2 new courses under this track: Principles of MRI (first offering under course number BME 6900.02, now permanent course number BME 6330) and BME 5401 Medical Imaging Systems.
- 25 Sep 2007 – Dr. Robert Hitchcock provided mentoring and network opportunities that resulted in job opportunities for the following students: Jeremy Borchert – Becton Dickinson Scott Mcfarlane – Fresenius Tina Jovic – US HIFU
- 25 Sep 2007 – Dr. Susan Bock served on the XXIst Intl. Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis Congress in Geneva, Switzerland as a International Advisory Board Member from 2006 to 2007
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• Biomedical Engineering in Top Ten.
– 17 Feb 2007 – The Chronical of Higher Education reported that the Department of Biomedical Engineering ranks in the top ten in the U.S. according to the 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.
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° A Smaller, Sleeker Heart Pump
– 18 Jan 2007 – In 1982 Barney Clark was implanted with the world’s first total artificial heart. The Utah artificial heart program has led to the Levacor magnetically levitated rotary heart pump.
Dr. Pratap Khanwilkar
, VP for rotary systems and business development at World Heart …
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• Surgery corrects hip dysplasia
– 04 Nov 2006 – Dr. Jeff Weiss and doctoral candidate
Andy Anderson
apply novel 3D computational modeling for diagnosis and treatmentment planning to correct hip dysplasia.
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Nora Eccles Treadwell Distinguished Lectures Series
– 03 Oct 2006 – Mechanisms of Ventricular Fibrillation Maintenance and Defibrillation presented by
Raymond Ideker
, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering; Director, Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory University of Alabama. In the Conference Room of the
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• Utah Funded to Engineer Bionic Arm
– 06 Sep 2006 – “Imagine an artificial arm that moves naturally in response to your thoughts, that allows you to feel both the outside world and your own movements, and that is as strong and graceful as an intact, biological limb” (Prof. G. Clark)
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• Biomedical Engineering Conference at Snowbird Sept 15-16
– 05 Sep 2006 – Gradauate students highlight research
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• Fourth International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart
– 05 Sep 2006 – The FIMH 2007 will be held in Salt Lake City on June 7-9th 2007 at the Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building
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• Graduate Student Orientation
– 18 Aug 2006 – The 2006 orientation for incoming graduate students will be held Monday, August 21, 9:30 AM – noon, in 501 BPRB. A light lunch will be provided after the meeting. -
• Utah Electrode Array Enables Cotrol of Prosthetic Devices by Human with Tetraplegia
– 31 Jul 2006 – Neural discharge patterns recorded using an array implanted in primary motor cortex of a paralyzed human were used to open simulated e-mail and operate devices such as a television, even while conversing. The Journal Nature reports
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• Nerve Stump Interface
– 10 Jul 2006 – Prof. Horch and Dr. Dhillon have found that stimulation by electrodes implanted into the peripheral nerve stumps of amputees allow amputees to feel graded, discrete touch sensations in the phantom hand, and recorded motor neurons in the nerve stump can be used to set grip force and position in an artificial arm.
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• Utah Science, Technology, and Research Economic Development Initiative Funded
– 17 May 2006 – (USTAR) The State of Utah is investing over $15 million per year new funds to recruit world-class research teams and over $130 million one-time funds for a new Neuroscience and Biomedical Technology Research building.
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• Utah Inventors and Entrepreneurs Gather
– 17 May 2006 – The 2006 Edison Showcase was held May, 17 at the Sheraton City Centre
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• Scientists Race to Create a Prosthetic Arm for Wounded Soldiers
– 17 May 2006 – The Utah neural prostheses team is key
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• University Teams with German Research Institute
– 24 Apr 2006 – MP3 pioneer Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the College of Engineering entered into a cooperative agreement focused on biomedical engineering research and product developement.
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• Revolutionizing The Bionic Arm
– 24 Apr 2006 – “Imagine an artificial arm that moves naturally in response to your thoughts.”
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• Greg Clark and Richard Normann on UEN
– 10 Apr 2006 – Catch Dr. Greg Clark and Dr. Richard Normann discussing their work on the neuroprosthetic arm on UEN’s Newsbreak, Monday, April 10th and 17th starting at 10 P.m. on channel 9.
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• West the Best at Chess
– 09 Apr 2006 – Biomedical Engineering faculty member Greg Clark doubles as chess coach of winning team
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• Utah
– 19 Mar 2006 – Utah Life Science Association highlights history
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• Heart Gets a Utah Assist
– 19 Mar 2006 – A “next-generation” artificial heart device created in Utah has been implanted in a man in Greece. The implant has no touching internal parts.
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• Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
– 19 Mar 2006 – Researchers at the University of Utah are developing a wireless, fully implantable neural recording/stimulating system.
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• The University of Utah Experience
– 26 Jan 2006 – University of Utah President Michael K. Young hosts “Together we Reach”
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• Entrepreneurial Science Gains Momentum
– 14 Nov 2005 – Utah Science, Technology, and Research Economic Development Initiative (USTAR) launched
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• Utah Biotech Industry
– 14 Nov 2005 – The periodical
Digital iQ
featured growth of Utah biotech industries describe some recent biotech buzz
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• Tenure Track Faculty Positions in Biomedical Engineering
– 16 Oct 2005 – We are in an exciting period of growth. Apply today.
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• Creating a Winning Medical Device Company
– 19 Sep 2005 – Alfred E. Mann delivered the Keynote Address at the 2005 Utah Mountain West Biomedical Engineering Conference.
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• Fall Picnic, Tuesday, September 20th, 5:30 PM.
– 08 Sep 2005 – Utah biomedical engineers will grace the lawns of Liberty Park (northwest corner) for our fall picnic to interact and fraternise. (Tues., 9/20, 5:30pm) Contact:
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• Tulane Biomedical Engineering
– 02 Sep 2005 – We invite Tulane Biomedical Engineering faculty, students and families to join our community in Utah. We offer our space, classrooms and community to share with you. Call us at 801 581-8528 or email
R. Rabbitt
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• Mind over Matter
– 13 Jun 2005 – Matthew Nagle, a paralyzed quadriplegic, was the first person implanted with a brain implant and is able to control video games and prosthetics with thought (
39MB QuickTime
). The “Utah” Electrode Array was developed under the leadership of
Prof. R. Normann
and is now sold by
Cyberkinetics
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• Digitial Human
– 01 May 2005 – Work of
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
, led by Dr. Chris Johnson and Dr. Rob MacLeod, was featured in Digital IQ.
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• Michael K. Young, 14th President of the University of Utah.
– 16 Apr 2005 – In his inauguration speech University of Utah President Michael K. Young highlighted accomplishments of the faculty and the potential of Utah BME research in the area of Neural Interfaces to restore human sensory and motor systems.
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• Once again, with feeling
– 01 Apr 2005 – The Economist article on adding the sense of touch to prosthetic limbs featured the neural interface research of
Prof. Ken Horch
. The Utah Artificial Arm, developed by Dr. Jacobsen and colleagues, is one of the platform technologies under investigation at the University of Utah for direct neural control and sensory feedback.
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• Mountain West Biomedical Engineering Conference
– 21 Mar 2005 – The Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted the 2005 biomedical engineering conference, September 16-17, at Snowbird, UT.
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