In April, Brooke Slavens, associate professor, mechanical engineering, hosted 29 MPS students—from Golda Meir—in her Mobility Lab, where she introduced them to the scientific field of biomechanics. The students were on a STEM-related field trip spurred by National Biomechanics Day, a …
In February, Brooke Slavens, associate professor, mechanical and biomedical engineering, spoke to CTSI Discovery Radio for their episode “All in the Wrist: MRI & Motion Analysis Research Study.” Slavens and her clinical collaborators at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin …
Brooke Slavens, who has collaborated for several years with students and faculty in UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science, has joined the college as an associate professor, mechanical and biomedical engineering. She had been an associate professor in UWM’s …
In December, the Biomedical and Health Informatics PhD program will honor its 28th graduate – Xiaoyu Liu. The interdisciplinary program—now in its 16th year—remains the only such PhD program in Wisconsin and graduates two or three students annually who are …
Biosensor expert Woo Jin Chang, associate professor, mechanical engineering, and Ihnjea Choi were awarded a $25,000 UWM Research Foundation Bridge Grant for their startup company, Septillionth Inc. Choi is the company’s CEO. The grant will support Septillionth’s move from the …
Congratulations to seniors Marina Slawinski (biomedical engineering) and Weiling Xia (materials science & engineering) who in September were awarded Senior Excellence in Research Awards (SERA) for 2022-23 from UWM’s Office of Undergraduate Research. These awards are given annually to a …
The National Science Foundation awarded Roshan D’Souza, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Alan D. Kulwicki ’77 faculty fellow, a $1.1 million grant to research the hemodynamics from subtraction-computed tomography angiography (SCTA). The four-year grant comes through NSF’s Smart and …
Qingsu Cheng joined the UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science in August as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. In this role, Cheng will advance the college’s multidisciplinary research and education in the diverse and evolving …
In May, Dr. Philip F. Judy made a blended gift consisting of a cash gift combined with an estate gift to establish the Philip F. Judy Biomedical Engineering Fund to support biomedical engineering research and fellowships at the UWM College …
A new type of hearing aid developed at UWM’s College of Engineering & Applied Science won second place in a statewide contest designed to encourage entrepreneurs in the startup stage of tech-enabled businesses. In June, Yi Hu, won second place …
