2023 Stories in Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering bridges science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with medicine to solve real-world problems related to human health. Throughout the healthcare system, biomedical engineers play a key role, from developing implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers to shock the heart into beating, artificial joints to increase mobility and decrease pain as our healthy joints, and devices to deliver life saving medications to a patient, to more futuristic technologies such as lab grown organs and bionic limbs.

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Project Title: “Sticky Slime Made by Bacteria”
  • Name: Gabriel Bulacan 
    • Hometown: Clifton, NJ 
    • Home Institution: The Pennsylvania State University 
    • Fun Fact About Me: I have played the violin for 15 years. 
  • Name: Paige Campbell  
    • Hometown: Bowie, MD 
    • Home Institution: Messiah University 
    • Fun Fact About Me: I love rock climbing & have a certification in high adventure!
Project Title: “Helping Premature Babies Breathe”
Project Title: “Making Particles to Deliver Medicine to Human Heart Tissue”
  • Name: Kendra Santillan Hernandez  
    • Hometown: Atlanta, GA 
    • Home Institution: Mercer University  
    • Fun Fact About Me: My favorite thing to do on a rainy day is to go for a walk.
  • Name: Devin Wong 
    • Hometown: Chappaqua, NY 
    • Home Institution: University of Rochester 
    • Fun Fact About Me: My favorite comfort food is coffee ice cream.
Project Title: “Studying Jumping to Prevent Ankle Injuries” 
Project Title: “Looking at Vein Cells to Tell If You Are Sick”
  • Name: Diana Herrera-Diaz 
    • Hometown: Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico 
    • Home Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio 
    • Fun Fact About Me: I have had the incredible opportunity of growing up in six different countries and becoming fluent in Spanish, English, and French. 
  • Name: Madelyn Stilwell 
    • Hometown: Independence, MO 
    • Home Institution: Wichita State University  
    • Fun Fact About Me: I love to figure skate.
Project Title: “Exploring How Cancer Cells React to Different Forces in Their Environment: Cells on Gels”
Project Title: “Helping Your Brain to Move Your Body with Shocks”
  • Name: Julia Rothschild 
    • Hometown: Natick, MA
    • Home Institution: University of Rochester  
    • Fun Fact About Me: I love to dance 
  • Name: M. Joseph Garza 
    • Hometown: Converse, TX (near San Antonio, TX) 
    • Home Institution: University of Texas at San Antonio 
    • Fun Fact: I love practicing kickboxing forms and drawing. 
Project Title: “Improving Limb Replacement Using Robots” 
Project Title: “Finding the Best Ways to Understand Certain Sounds”
  • Name: Gidey Gezae 
    • Hometown: Burtonsville, MD 
    • School: Pennsylvania State University  
    • Fun Fact About Me: My favorite book/TV/movie genre is anything zombie apocalypse.  
  • Name: Makayla Strzelewicz  
    • Hometown: Oxford, MA
    • Home Institution: Quinsigamond Community College  
    • Fun Fact About Me: I have a Lego collection!  
Project Title: “Helping Cells Fix an Injured Heart”
Project Title: “Packing Particles with Firefly Glow”
  • Name: Anna Gwozdz 
    • Hometown: South Wales, NY (near Buffalo, NY) 
    • Home Institution: Alfred University  
    • Fun Fact About Me: I’m a violinist at my university. 
  • Name: Salma Riad 
    • Hometown: Cairo, Egypt 
    • Home Institution: WPI 
    • Fun Fact About Me: I lived in Switzerland for 5 years 
Project Title: “Testing MRI Guided Surgical Robot”

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