FIU Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Anuradha Godavarty, whose research and innovations have significantly advanced optical imaging technologies, has been named to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Members. NAI Senior Members are faculty,...
The Koerner Family Foundation has generously awarded stipends to two FIU College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) graduate students in support of their doctoral studies in biomedical and electrical and computer engineering. Asad Mirza is a doctoral candidate in...
Name: Melissa Venedicto Hometown: Miami, Florida What is your major? My major is biomedical engineering, and I am pursing a minor in physics. Where did you intern? What was your role there? My internship was with the NASA MIRO CRE2DO Center at FIU, under the...
Researcher and American Heart Association (AHA) Fellow Hooi Hooi Ng has won the AHA’s Elaine W. Raines Early Career Investigator Award for her studies on vascular calcifications. Ng’s research is a collaboration across FIU’s research community. She...
At 7 years old, Allison Martinez pinched the legs of her grandmother, who was confined to a wheelchair, to see if she could get a reaction. Martinez’s grandmother had suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident. At an internet café in Honduras, “I [had] read about...
The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the communicator of the body, receiving information, deciding what information to deliver and sending messages to organs to take action. At...