BME Program Newsletter - March 2022

All faculty – and any other employee or student with responsibility for the design, conduct or reporting of research – must disclose any significant financial interest and external professional activity that could compromise university decision making or duties. Projects and protocols submitted to the Office of Grants and Contracts or to the Institutional Review Board cannot receive approval until this an annual Disclosure of External Professional Activities (DEPA) is submitted, reviewed and approved.

• More information is available online  
• Any questions can be sent to the Conflict of Interest & Commitment Office at coi@colorado.edu.

Know a biomedical engineering student that deserves to be featured on our website and social media? Has a student completed a project that should be getting the attention of people in industry or research that we want peers to see?

We are taking nominations for the ongoing BME Student Spotlight series.

• Fill out this form to nominate a student.
• We would like to feature students from all class levels: undergraduate, masters and/or PhD students.
• Feel free to nominate more than one student!

Assistant Professor C. Wyatt Shields IV is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his proposal “Shape-Encoded Electrokinetic Particles for Multiplexed Biosensing.”

The American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering's College of Fellows is a prestigious group comprised of the most accomplished and distinguished engineering and medical school professors, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs.

The collaborative work could boost health and drug advancements by giving researchers a better understanding of primary and secondary radiation forces in multiphase colloidal systems.

Bio-inspired robotics has motivated the development of technology from artificial muscles and medical devices to gecko-inspired adhesives and robots that run, fly and swim. The course Bio-inspired Robotics introduces engineers to this area of study.