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Elise Raschke Leads with Intention

Sep 2024: Biomedical engineering student Elise Raschke leads with a heart for service.  Driven by her faith, the biomedical engineering student and high achiever … Continue Reading 

 

Schmit and Hyngstrom seek to Improve Balance

Jun 2024: Participants in project led by Dr. Brian Schmit improve mobility by engaging in high intensity training on a treadmill that challenges their sense of balance. … Continue Reading 

 

Goldberg Wins TAA New Textbook Award

Mar 2024: Biomedical Engineering Design, a textbook co-authored by Dr. Jay Goldberg, professor of practice in biomedical engineering, is one of 25 texts to earn a TAA Most Promising … Continue Reading 

 

In the News

• Marquette hosts 3rd annual toy build for Inclusive Play, a collaboration between OREC and Penfield Children's Center seeking to empower children with different abilities (620WTMJ, November 2024)
• Led by BME Undergraduate, Marquette's chapter of Engineering Without Borders partners with community in Guatemala to implement clean water drinking system (Marquette Today, October 2024)  
• Undergraduate engineers discover new skills and passions in hands-on summer research projects (Marquette Today, August 2024)

• Innovation and Inspiration: Dr. Tefft’s Vision for Heart Health Science and Education (MCW Knowledge, July 2024)

• Dr. Robert Scheidt named next Rev. John P. Raynor Endowed Chair at Marquette (Marquette Today, June 2024)
• Dr. Brandon Tefft receives NSF CAREER award to develop a heart valve that grows with patient (Marquette Today, April 2024)
• Celebrating more than a major: Photos from Engineers Week 2024 (Marquette Today, February 2024)
• Emeriti Faculty, Dr. Jack Winters, among top 2% of world’s most-cited scientists (Marquette Today, January 2024) 

Grants & Awards 

• Joseph LeSeuer wins Friends of MCW Excellence in Research Award (November 2024)
• Summer Medical Students, Wesley Glime and Clayton Lundberg, Win Awards at CTSI Poster Session (November 2024)
• Dr. Sayantan Sinha, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanomedicine & Image-Guided Interventions Laboratory, wins J.C. Bose Award for novel Glaser Coupling methodology (October 2024)
• Woehlke, Ruth (Principal Investigator); "Expanding the Accessibility and Quality of Ophthalmic Imaging through Optical Elements and Modeling." An F31 grant sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (April 2024–March 2027).
• Joshi, Amit (Principal Investigator); Sun, Daochun (Co-Investigator); Gantner, Benjamin (Co-Investigator); Basel, Donald (Co-Investigator); “Photo-Triggered Trojan-Horse Drug Delivery for MPNST Tumor Cell Death and Macrophage Reprogramming.” Sponsored by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (July 2024–June 2026).
• Greenberg, Adam (Principal Investigator); Phelan, Rachel (Co-Investigator); Bingen, Kristin (Co-Investigator); “Cognitive Dysfunction Related to Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation: Behavior and Neuroimaging.” Sponsored by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (July 2024–June 2026).
• Joshi, Amit (Principal Investigator); Gupta, Sharad; "From Farm to Clinic: Silk Nanoparticles for Multimodal Imaging and Therapy of Breast Cancer." A seed grant sponsored by the Office of Global Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin (FY25).
• Tefft, Brandon J. (Principal Investigator); "CAREER: Origami-inspired design for a tissue engineered heart valve." A CAREER Award sponsored by the National Science Foundation (July 2024–June 2029). 

Other News

• Dr. Jay Goldberg celebrates writing his 50^th and final column for IEEE Pulse (October 2024)
• Bucks, Modine host ride-on car fitting day in collaboration with OREC's Go Baby Go! MKE (Milwaukee Bucks Community Facebook Page, May 2024)
• BME Members Present at the 2024 American Physiology Summit (April 2024)
• Joint Department faculty receive seed grants from AHW for promising new research (March 2024)
• Alli Scarbrough—PhD Student from Biophotonics Lab—has paper featured on SPIE and EurekaAlert! websites (February 2024)
• ZVAMC Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery Labs Announce Change in Leadership (February 2024)

 

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