What 10 mentors learned from teaching graduate students and postdocs
Ten graduate faculty were honored with the UAB Graduate Dean’s Excellence in Mentorship Award for exceptional work with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
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Eberhardt Wins 2021 Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship
By Christina Crowe
Thirty years ago, Alan Eberhardt, Ph.D., joined UAB faculty as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering before moving over to the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering in 1999. Today he serves as Professor and Associate Chair of Education for the department and celebrates being named a recipient of the 2021 Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship.
Biomedical engineering student graduates with five prestigious graduate offers
Jason Zhang has been accepted into five elite graduate programs with offers of full financial support to continue his studies in the biomedical engineering industry.
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UAB students selected for state innovation project, partnership with Stanford University
Eight UAB students have been selected as fellows in Stanford’s Hoover Institution and will participate in projects aimed at advancing specific state initiatives.
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Two UAB researchers receive nearly $1.3 million in grant funding
With the funding, Da Yan, Ph.D., will study how newly emerging services are changing the way Alabamians travel every day, and Paul Baker, Ph.D., will work toward the development of an artificial vascular graft.
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BME graduate student Sachin Budhathoki receives Blazer Way Award
By Hannah Weems
Sachin Budhathoki, a third-year graduate student in the UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded with a 2021 Blazer Way Award in the graduate student category on February 5 through a virtual announcement by Student Involvement.
Two UAB students selected for prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Rose Albert and Karthik Reddy, both members of UAB’s Honors College and studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, were selected for the competitive award in math and science.
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Novel Motogaitor device advances mobility
By Hannah Weems
The UAB Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) is known for routinely tackling daunting health problems head-on and has been doing so for more than forty years. In the community of people living with mobility impairments, affordability is one of the largest issues facing accessibility to therapeutic devices. It is no surprise, then, that UAB graduate students decided to directly combat this problem with the creation and development of a device called the “Motogaitor.”
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Alumni panelists discuss future of women in engineering
Why don’t more women pursue careers in engineering? What can we do to change the perception of engineering as a male profession? These were among the questions addressed in an online panel discussion hosted by the UAB chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.
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UAB graduates selected for National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
Courtney Severino, Jasmin Revanna and Retta El Sayed will receive up to three years of support for graduate education, including a $34,000 annual stipend plus $12,000 per year toward the cost of graduate work.
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