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...
Ranu Jung, eminent scholar professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and her Adaptive Neural System Lab (ANSL) team was recently named a 2020 Cade Prize winner. Given by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention, the Cade Prize awards...
Name: Sasha Omadally Hometown: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago What is your major? Mechanical Engineering Where did you intern? What was your role there? I was a product development engineering intern at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) this past summer. How did you...
