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Kevin successfully defends BIOE Senior Honors Thesis

4/30/2016

Congratulations to Kevin Pineault, undergraduate ASPIRE Fellow, who yesterday successfully defended his Bioengineering Honors Thesis. This is the last milestone to achieve Bioengineering Honors Distinction – status awarded to only 5-10 Bioengineering undergraduate students each year. Congrats Kevin!

Read more about Kevin on our Team Page, or follow the link to learn about the Fischell Department of Bioengineering Honors Program.

Josh awarded University of Maryland Summer Research Fellowship

4/27/2016

Congratulations to graduate student Josh Gammon, who is the recipient of the University of Maryland’s Summer Research Fellowship. The goal of the Fellowship is to allow top doctoral students to make significant strides toward a target doctoral milestone over the summer. Congratulations Josh!

Read more about the award on the University of Maryland's Graduate School site, or read more about Josh on our team page.

Professor Jewell joins other BIOE Assistant Professors to speak at Fischell Festival

4/19/2016

Happy 10th anniversary to the Fischell Department of Bioengineering!!! The campus hosted a celebration of the leadership, supporters, students, staff, and faculty that have been integral in building our department over the past 10 years. To conclude the night, the department's 5 assistant professors took the stage to highlight some of the exciting work to come. Thanks to all the attendees, the entire Department Community, and in particular, the entire Fischell Family for their incredible and enduring dedication and support of our department.

Jewell and Martin lab research on free-floating tumor cells featured on cover of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

4/15/2016

Good news to report: Our recent paper in Oncotarget - led be graduate student fellows Jim Andorko (Jewell lab) and Kristi Chakrabarti (Martin lab) - is featured on the cover of the current issue of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. GEN is the #1 biotech new magazine and is highlighting our collaboration to develop new tools to study circulating tumor cells - congrats to Jim, Kristi, and all the co-authors!

Jim awarded Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship & Wylie Dissertation Fellowship

4/15/2016

Congratulations to Graduate Fellow, Jim Andorko, for receipt of both the Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship and the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. These prestigious awards recognize the University's top graduate students on our campus. This year, Jim is one of 10 recipients of the Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship out of more than 4000 graduate students. Congrats again Jim!

Read more about Jim on the team page.

Prof. Jewell presents seminar at Georgia Tech

4/14/2016

On Thursday Professor Jewell delivered a seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology in the Center for Immunoengineering seminar series. Thanks to all the attendees and to the faculty for a great day of meetings! Special thanks to Dr. Mark Prausnitz for the invitation.

Read more about Georgia Tech, or the Center for Immunoengineering.

Krystina passes PhD proposal defense

4/9/2016

Yesterday Krystina Hess, Department of Defense SMART Graduate Fellow, successfully defended her PhD proposal to become a doctoral candidate! Congratulations to Krystina as she moves into the next phase of her PhD training and immune tolerance research! (and thanks to special guest Krystina’s mom who joined in on the happy hour celebration)

Read more about Krystina on the team page.

Jessica awarded HHMI Undergraduate Fellowship

4/8/2016

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Jessica Yau who has been awarded an HHMI fellowship. Jessica is working with Dr. Peipei Zhang to study the intrinsic immunogenicity of biomaterials. Congratulations Jessica!

Read more about Jessica on the team page, or learn more about the HHMI Fellowship program.

New gradaute student Michelle Bookstaver joins the lab

4/3/2016

Welcome to fist year graduate student Michelle Bookstaver, who joined the lab as our newest PhD student. Michelle attended Brown University, where she completed a B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering. She will be joining the cancer vaccine team in the lab. Welcome Michelle!

Read more about Michelle on the team page.

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