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Learn biomechanics in your living room: Ph.D. student to host virtual National Biomechanics Day event , articleNicole Stark, a second-year doctoral student in the Virginia Tech–Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, has been awarded a 2021 Civic Engagement Microgrant Initiative by Research!America and the Rita Allen Foundation to carry out a virtual event for National Biomechanics Day on April 7.
Date: Apr 05, 2021 -
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To fly drones over roads safely, study what would happen if they crash , articleDrone researchers and injury biomechanics experts teamed up with State Farm to collect some of the first data describing the outcome of a potential collision between a drone and a moving car.
Date: Mar 24, 2021 -
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Like cars on a highway: Researchers dig deeper into how migrating cells interact in the body , articleUnderstanding the ways migrating cells react to one another is essential to predicting how cells change and evolve and how they react in applications, such as wound healing and drug delivery.
Date: Mar 22, 2021 -
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Five graduate students named Bouchet Honor Society Scholars , articleVirginia Tech is one of 18 university partners with Bouchet Society chapters. The society’s goal is to create a network of scholars and professionals who “serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy,” according to its webpage.
Date: Mar 16, 2021 -
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Engineering mechanics graduate student receives Liviu Librescu Memorial Fellowship , articleLisha Yuan, engineering mechanics doctoral student in biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech, received the fellowship because of her impressive achievements and service in the areas of leadership, scholarly excellence, teaching, community service, and research.
Date: Mar 15, 2021 -
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The business of conservation: Pamplin students experience real-world consulting with help from engineering faculty , articleIn a management course led by Dirk Buengel, business students were able to engage in consulting for a real-world startup with an innovative mission: stopping the illegal timber trade. Hal Holmes and Eli Vlaisavljevich, assistant professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics, represented the client organization, Conservation X Labs.
Date: Mar 10, 2021 -
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Tumors and centrosomes: Researchers receive grant to investigate cancer evolution , articleUnlike many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic, biological cells are not isolated from the outside world. This relationship between cell and environment also applies to the development of cancer, which a team of Virginia Tech scientists is now researching with the help of a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Date: Feb 24, 2021 -
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Raffaella De Vita elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering , articleDe Vita joined Virginia Tech’s biomedical engineering and mechanics department as a visiting professor in 2006 and as a full-time faculty member one year later.
Date: Feb 15, 2021 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute graduate student awarded NIH Fellowship to examine balance, walking in children with cerebral palsy , articleHassan Farah, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student, has been awarded a $98,000 National Institutes of Health grant that will fund his remaining predoctoral research. Farah is studying the limb biomechanics, joint movements, and loading in children with cerebral palsy.
Date: Feb 01, 2021 -
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In memoriam: Hampton Clay Gabler III, professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics , articleGabler, professor and chair of the undergraduate biomedical engineering program in biomedical engineering and mechanics, was the Samuel Herrick Professor at Virginia Tech, where he enjoyed a long, illustrious, and rewarding career.
Date: Jan 21, 2021 -
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Interdisciplinary team identifies mechanism that produces rapid acceleration in clicking beetles , articleA new study by a team that included Jake Socha, professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, shows that a snap-through unbending movement of the body is the main reason for the clicking beetle’s fast acceleration.
Date: Jan 18, 2021 -
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Jennifer Wayne elected fellow of the Orthopaedic Research Society , articleWayne, department head and professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics, has demonstrated exceptional achievements throughout her career in engineering.
Date: Jan 14, 2021 -
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iTHRIV announces health research pilot project recipients , articleMulti-institutional teams of scientists, physicians, and engineers will study Parkinson’s disease, celiac disease, pediatric heart transplant, pediatric telemedicine, and epilepsy.
Date: Jan 12, 2021 -
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Pamela VandeVord appointed engineering’s associate dean for research and graduate studies , articleVandeVord will work closely with leadership from Virginia Tech engineering and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, as well as faculty, departments, institutes, and external constituents to move the college’s research priorities forward toward targeted milestones.
Date: Jan 04, 2021 -
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Shocking the cellular world: Engineers’ collaborative work discovers force signature of cells undergoing electroporation , articleElectroporation has been used in many medical applications, such as gene transfection and electrochemotherapy, since the 1980s. In this study, the researchers improved upon an established method of electroporation, in which medicines or genes are injected into holes formed in a cell’s membrane.
Date: Dec 22, 2020 -
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Socially distant cell growth: biomedical engineering experiential learning during a pandemic , articleYong Woo Lee, associate professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics and instructor of the cohort’s biomedical engineering cell course, knew it was important to offer experiential learning methods to enable his students to understand cell growth and cell replication.
Date: Nov 23, 2020 -
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NSF grant unites diverse Virginia Tech team to improve in-home physical therapy , articleThe VTC Smart Rehab Lab will use the $1.1 million National Science Foundation award to further development of tools and an innovated fused human and machine knowledge base that could open the door to wider access to physical therapy.
Date: Nov 23, 2020 -
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Biomedical engineering and mechanics faculty receive NSF grant to study oxygen delivery in insects , articleWith support from an NSF grant, two faculty members in biomedical engineering and mechanics have combined forces to answer questions pertaining to insects’ breathing, which may lead to new applications in microfluidics.
Date: Nov 19, 2020 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists provide new evidence of elusive electrical pathway in the heart , articleAssociate Professor Steven Poelzing and Research Assistant Professor Gregory Hoeker, of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, recently published a study that helps explain why our classical understanding of heart beats and the mathematical models don’t add up.
Date: Nov 12, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech’s Animal Cancer Care and Research Center opening a grand occasion for region’s pets , articleAccommodating the relocation and expansion of the oncology service from the Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Blacksburg, the brand-new Animal Cancer Care and Research Center is a vital part of the Virginia Tech Carilion Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, Virginia.
Date: Nov 11, 2020
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