Congratulations to Bioengineering Undergraduate Students Shivam Kardani, Mher Garibyan, and Nolan Winicki who received the highly competitive Chancellor's Research Fellowship award for undergraduate student engagement in faculty mentored research.
Professor Nam received the 2018 City of Hope – University of California-Riverside Biomedical Research Initiative (CUBRI) award for his proposal entitled “Promotion of insulin-secreting beta cell maturation via controlled mechanical cellular environment”. In collaboration with Professor Hung-Ping Shih in the Department of Translational Research and Cellular Therapeutics at City of Hope, the research team aims...
Bioengineering Assistant Professors Megan Peters, Justin Chartron, Joshua Morgan, and Kevin Freedman received seed funding from the UCR 2018 Collaborative Seed Grant Program.
Bioengineering graduate students Nehemiah Zewde and Donovan Argueta received a Dissertation Year Program fellowship for one quarter for 2018-2019. Also, Hakeem Omotayo received a Graduate Research Mentorship Program (GRMP) fellowship of two quarters for 2018-2019
Professor William Grover received UCR’s 2018 Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching (JET) Award in the Celebration of Teaching ceremony that took place at the UC Riverside Alumni and Visitor’s Center on May 22.
On May 17th, 2018, our graduating Bioengineering class presented demonstrations of their senior design projects. A total of 84 students worked in teams over three academic quarters to produce 18 projects largely of their own conception and design.
Fourteen bioengineering students presented their work at the 2018 UCR Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Symposium that was held in campus on May 7-8, 2018.
A UCR delegation led by Chancellor Kim Wilcox, Associate Chancellor Christine Victorino, and vice provost for international affairs, Kelechi Kalu visited China on March 25-30, 2018.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Kevin Freedman received a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program to study melanin using single cell and single molecules technologies.
Congratulations to high school student Hailee Hammond of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Corona-Norco, for receiving the 2018 BioMoDel award at the Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair
A collaborative research team of Professors Jin Nam and Hyle Park has been awarded by the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine (MolMed) to test the in-vivo performance of a novel neuroconduit for peripheral nerve regeneration in animals.
Fulbright awarded Prof. Vullev for 2018-2019 with a U.S. Scholar grant that will allow him to bring his expertise in molecular electrets and charge transfer to Brazil, in collaboration with teams from the University of São Paulo (the highest ranked university in Latin America, according the the U.S.News report) and from a couple of other...
Joshua Burns, a Ph.D. candidate in the Anvari group, receives a $1,800 grant from The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) to attend and present at Photonics West in San Francisco.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering William Grover received a grant from the Frank G. and Janice B. Delfino Agricultural Technology Research Initiative in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside.