Category: Students
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BME 419/519 Art Fair Spotlights the Beauty and Creativity of Human Physiology
Held on the final day of class, the event encouraged students to choose any physiological system covered during the term and interpret it through an original art piece made using any medium.
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Paul Jensen Lab’s ‘Robot Scientist’ Earns U-M Empowering Research with AI Award
The award was presented during the MIDAS AI in Research Symposium, highlighting researchers across disciplines—from biological sciences to music—who are integrating AI into their work.
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BME Graduate Student Council Strengthens Community through Academic, Wellness, and Social Programming
The BME Graduate Student Council’s goal is helping students feel supported throughout the demands of graduate training
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M-HEAL Returns to Ghana to Strengthen Partnerships and Advance Neonatal Care Prototypes
U-M student organization Michigan Health Engineered For All Lives (M-HEAL) has a team called The Initiative, which is charting its next phase of work in Ghana, focused on newborn health, sustainable collaboration, and locally informed design.
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GaitWay wins first place at U-M CFE’s MTank, spotlighting a new approach to freezing of gait in Parkinson’s
MTank is a project similar to the reality TV show Shark Tank, where startups come to pitch their ideas, receive live feedback and guidance from judges, and compete for capital from Venture Capitalists.
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BME’s Third AMPED Cohort Prepares to Graduate
This class consisted of 31 engineers who are pursuing careers in the medical device industry.
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MedLaunch: Building assistive technology—and a community—one partner at a time
MedLaunch operates as a collection of project teams, each assigned a community partner in the greater Ann Arbor region and guided by a yearlong design process grounded in frequent end-user feedback.
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Undergraduate Innovation in High-Throughput Screening Earns SLAS Poster Award
The award highlights the exceptional caliber of research and presentation skills exhibited by BME undergraduate student Christian Reinhardt, whose work drew considerable interest from conference attendees.
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Congratulations to BME’s 2025-2026 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Recipients
BME is proud of our graduate students for receiving top Rackham Award recognition. The following BME Ph.D. students received Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships:
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NIH-Funded U-M BME Team Develops Adaptive Vision Assistant to Deliver Personalized Navigation Cues
This wearable device is engineered to deliver personalized navigation cues for visually impaired users, offering information through vibration, sound, or other customizable formats.