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Stories from BME

 

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

• Collaboration featuring engineering, occupational therapy and high school students creates hundreds of adapted toys for children (Marquette Today, November 2024)
• 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)

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)
• 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).
• 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)

 

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