Seminar Series
Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
For a zoom link, please email: kharrison@wpi.edu
AUGUST:
26: Welcome: No speaker, class meets
SEPTEMBER:
02: Labor Day- No Classes
09: Rachael Sirianni, Ph.D., UMass Chan Medical School: “Nanoparticles, the Central Nervous System, and Opportunities for Therapy”
16: Ronald D. Joslin, Ph.D., M.B.A.: NSF: “Overview of NSF & Research Funding Opportunities”
23: Yonghui Ding, PhD, WPI BME: “Additive Manufacturing of Regenerative Scaffolds”:
30: Alisha Sarang-Sieminski, Ph.D., Olin College: “Using A Universal Design Framework to Bridge the Gap Between Accommodations Letters and Active Learning Approaches”
OCTOBER:
07: Mircea Mujat, PhD Physical Sciences Inc: “High-Resolution Retinal Imaging”
14: A/B BREAK- No Classes
21: Nan Lin, Kenza Bezzat, WPI Biomedical Engineering: BMES Presentations
28: Distinguished Lecture Series: Princess Imoukhuede, PhD, University of Washington: “Integrative Bioengineering: Unraveling Cross-Family Signaling for Vascular Health and Oxytocin Receptor Dynamics to Improve Labor and Delivery”
NOVEMBER:
04: Emmanuel Agu, PhD, WPI Computer Science
11: Sotak Lecture: Lawrence Latour, PhD ’94, NIH: NINDS: “Rapid MRI in the Study of Acute Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury”
18: BME Distinguished Lecture Series: Naomi Chesler, PhD., UC Irvine: “Cardiopulmonary Health and Disease: An Inclusive Biomechanics Perspective”
JANUARY:
27: Welcome: No speaker, class meets
FEBRUARY:
03: Elise Corbin, PhD., U. of Delaware: “Dynamic Mechanical Environments Across Space and Time to Study Cell Behavior”
10: Postponed: Carlos Estrada, PhD, Harvard/BCH
17: Cancelled
24: BME Seminar Series: Zoe Reidinger, WPI BME: “Making Biomedical Engineering More Neuroinclusive”
MARCH:
03: Distinguished Lecture Series: Ibraheem Badejo, PhD, J&J MedTech: “J&J MedTech and Recent Innovations
10: C/D BREAK- No Classes
17: Stacey Ann Bailey, UMass Amherst: “Radiotherapy-Induced Bone Fragility: Implications for Managing Metastatic Bone Disease”
24: Distinguished Lecture Series: Molly Shochiet, U. of Toronto: “Regeneration in the Central Nervous System: Cell & Therapeutic Delivery”
31: Wellness Day- No Classes
APRIL:
07: Carly Thorp, WPI Mathematical Sciences
14: Raymond Dunn, PhD, UMMS: “Biomedical Engineering and clinical medicine… Tales of a Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon”
21: Patriot’s Day- No Classes
28: Edward Damiano, Boston University: “The Dawn of a New Era in Fully Automated Insulin Titration in Type 1 Diabetes: Pivotal Trial and Real-world Results of the Ilet Bionic Pancreas”
