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Jannick Rolland receives 2025 Hajim School Lifetime Achievement Award

Jannick Rolland, the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering, has been awarded the 2025 Hajim School Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding career in research, teaching, and leadership. Her impact at the University extends across multiple disciplines—she directs the Robert E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design & Engineering and holds joint appointments with the Center for Visual Science and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. “For pioneering accomplishments in freeform optics and for her mentoring of generations of graduate students, she is well deserving of a Hajim Lifetime Achievement Award,” says Thomas Brown, director of the Institute of Optics.

Melisanda Feliz Wins Fulbright Student Grant

Melisanda Feliz earned both her BS (2022) and MS (2023) in Biomedical Engineering from the Â鶹´«Ã½, completing her master’s through the Center for Medical Technology Innovation (CMTI) program. We are proud to share that she was recently awarded a in La Rioja, Spain, where she will help Spanish children strengthen their English communication skills.

Laurel Carney Wins ASA Blackstock Mentorship Award

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Diane Dalecki Receives AIUM Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award

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Design Day 2025

Design Day 2025 was a huge success! Our BME Senior Design and CMTI teams once again impressed us with their innovation, dedication, and professionalism. We’re incredibly proud of all their accomplishments and grateful to the mentors, sponsors, and supporters who helped make the day so memorable.  

Taimi Marple Receives Dottie Welch Award For The Second Time

Taimi Marple, Biomedical Engineering (BME) Undergraduate Coordinator, has been recognized as the first two-time recipient of the Hajim School’s Dottie Welch Student Enrichment Award. Marple, who recently retired on May 2 after 45 years of dedicated service to the Â鶹´«Ã½, was previously honored with the award in 2018. She was presented the 2025 award by Dean Wendi Heinzelman at this year's Design Day on May 5. 

Â鶹´«Ã½ Engineers Serve the Community Through Design Capstone Projects

Making metered dose inhalers more convenient

2025 BME Undergraduate Awards

Several exceptional biomedical engineering majors have been recognized with awards from the Â鶹´«Ã½ College, the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.  

BME Students Win Top Honors at the 2025 Forbes Competition

We excited to highlight the exceptional achievements of our Biomedical Engineering (BME) students at the 2025 Charles and Janet Forbes Business Pitch Competition, hosted by the at the Â鶹´«Ã½.  This year, our BME students stood out among the competition, earning both First and Third Place honors.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awarded to BME Alum Christopher Lu

Christopher Lu, a 2023 graduate of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Biomedical Engineering BS program, has been awarded the highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). The fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), or STEM education. Fellows are selected for their demonstrated potential to make significant contributions to research and are provided with three years of financial support, including an annual stipend.

Hanna Rickert and Allie Tay Win Professor’s Choice Awards

Congratulations to Hannah Rickert ’25 and Allie Tay ’25 for receiving Professor’s Choice Awards at the Undergraduate Research Expo during Celebrating Research Week—a University-wide showcase of student innovation across all disciplines.

Open Scholarship Awards

The  recently presented its annual awards to several Hajim School students. The  celebrate early career scholars who have demonstrated exemplary efforts in making their research open and accessible to the wider community. Congratulations to the following Hajim School PhD students who received awards in the engineering category:

Professor Benjamín Castañeda ’09 (PhD) leads a global effort to meet critical needs for medical technology. The project is emblematic of Castañeda’s career: bringing medical technology to people who would otherwise not have access.

Gaofei Jin Wins SPIE Medical Imaging 2025 All-Conference Best Student Paper Award

Gaofei Jin, a second-year BME Ph.D. student in the , was selected as a finalist for the SPIE Medical Imaging 2025 All-Conference Best Student Paper Award. He earned this recognition by winning the Best Paper Award at the "Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography" conference.

Susana Marcos, the David R. Williams Director of the , the Nicholas George Professor in Optics, and a professor of ophthalmology at Â鶹´«Ã½, was selected as the 2025  by Optica. The award is presented to an individual who has performed distinguished work in the field of vision, including but not limited to the optics, physiology, anatomy, or psychology of the visual system.

Hannah Rickert is a senior at the Â鶹´«Ã½ who experiences chronic migraines. She is also a winner of the first-ever AbbVie Migraine Career Catalyst Award contest, which awarded  up to $2,500 to help support their career aspirations.

Can computers take over and put an end to animal testing? James McGrath, William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of biomedical engineering, examines this question.

Kaihua (Chloe) Chen, a biomedical engineering PhD candidate, recently received a spotlight from the International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER). Chloe, who is a member of the McGrath Lab, received a IFER Graduate Fellowship to pursue her groundbreaking project, “In Vitro Studies of Biophysical and Molecular Determinants of the Blood-Brain Barrier During Sepsis and Systemic Inflammation.” The fellowship is aimed at helping advance human-relevant research practices that reduce reliance on animal models.

Loralai Crawford ('24/Take5 '25) Featured Researcher Ambassador

Loralai Crawford (‘24/Take5 '25), BME major, has been featured by the University in their   Each month they feature a few students so that you can learn about what types of research they are doing and give their peers advice on starting their own research experience.

Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers , and , have earned a $3 million grant to investigate a complication that befalls more than half of all abdominal surgery patients: post-operative adhesions that can cause serious and sometimes lifelong health problems.

Jannick Rolland, Director of the Center for Freeform Optics and the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering, is from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Allison Lopatkin ’13, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, and microbiology and immunology, has received a 2024 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

The innovative professor prioritizes inclusiveness in the classroom.

Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers investigate how visual cues enhance the brain’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments.