More Than 200 People Attend BME Symposium with Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture

More than 200 people attended the BME Symposium with Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture on May 13. The annual event featured George Em Karniadakis, Ph.D., the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, highlighting machine learning.

The Biomedical Engineering Symposium is intended to build the BME community across campus.

The Glenn V. Edmonson Lecture honors the legacy of the first graduate chair of the Biomedical Engineering program.

These events provide a forum for BME faculty and students campus-wide along with our collaborators to present current research progress and discuss future research opportunities at the interface of engineering and medicine.

More than 65 students presented their poster research, and four students highlighted their research during oral presentations. Congratulations to oral presentation winner Delaney Sinko and the four poster presentation winners: Wutt Hmone Thin Kyi, Despina Pavlidis, Hanna Kim and Nina Treacher. Hanna Kim and Brooke Smiley won raffled bingo swag bags.

Thanks to the generosity of the Edmonson Family, including Mrs. Trenna Ruffner and her sister, Rebecca Palmer, BME recently awarded scholarships to four exceptional students, from senior undergraduate students through Ph.D. students. These awards recognize excellence in the classroom, research, and service, including recipients who have authored papers and led research projects. The BME community submitted 101 nominations for 59 students. Congratulations to the following BME students who received the Edmonson Scholarship: Lillian Holman, Ryan Kozak, Atticus McCoy and Zhanpeng Xu.