Keeping People First

Alumna Parika “Pinky” Petaipimol is inspired to persevere by people she’ll never meet.

Bulletin Board Material

A scrap of paper changed the life of two-time cancer survivor Josh Vose, leading him away from the operating room and into the field of medical devices.

Air Autonomy

AE Professor Karen Feigh is looking to the skies for the future of AI and health.

10 Questions with Manu Platt

Manu Platt, Ph.D. BME 2006, was a member of the second class of Ph.D. students in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and eventually returned to the faculty for more than a decade. In 2023, Platt was named founding director of the new Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Industry Secrets

For these five engineering faculty, time spent in the private sector proved to be invaluable

A New Strategy to Fight Cancer

Johnny Blazeck’s research at the intersection of immunology, engineering and metabolism is creating novel therapies to help cancer patients in the fight of their lives

 

Solving the World’s Growing Problem

Marta Hatzell’s research on global sustainability in the fields of food, water and energy seeks to solve the world’s hunger problem through environmentally sustainable fertilizer

Preparing to Explore New Worlds

NASA looks to send astronauts deeper into space after 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station

Just Ask Jamel

Today’s engineering student prepares for tomorrow by making the most of those college years

The Formula of Creativity

Robotics Ph.D. students Lakshmi Nair and Joanne Truong use creative problem-solving research to inform robotics that could potentially help in household tasks