Congratulations to Ranu Jung, professor, and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholar Chair in Biomedical Engineering, for being awarded an honorary doctorate from Aalborg University in Denmark (AAU). Jung brings new...
Jessica Ramella-Roman developed a system that uses light to examine the composition and structure of cervical tissue. FIU’s Jessica Ramella-Roman recently received a patent for using optical technologies to identify preterm labor. Preterm labor, which occurs...
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...
During her time here at FIU, Jessica Molina has grown into an academically-driven leader in STEM. An early-childhood diagnosis of a rare disease, Osteogenesis Imperfecta, drove her passion for STEM and, ultimately, her motivation to contribute to the scientific...
A Different but Amazing Senior Design Award Ceremony Due to the current situation, this semester’s Senior Design Expo was completely different from the past years and was even more challenging for our students. Each group had to submit their reports, posters and oral...
Graduate Students innovative work was presented at the Graduate Research Day Spring 2020 On Friday, March 6, a total of 34 Masters and Ph.D. students presented their research to their peers, professors, guest speakers and a few selected judges. Ph.D. students (with a...