View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association BESA Newsletter September 2024.

View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association BESA Newsletter June 2024.

The BMEGG has two excellent finalists in the annual UC Davis Grad Slam competition. Congratulations to Rajul Bains and Roshni Shetty!

Rajul Bains
Master's student, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
"Microfluidic Tumor-on-a-Chip Model for Cancer Research"

View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA) Newsletter Spring 2024.

View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA) Newsletter Summer 2023.

Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, judged, and participated in the BMEGG Student Research Symposium on May 12. I would especially like to thank Christal Wintersmith, Sophie Orr, and Ben Mattison for all of their hard work organizing this event. All of the sessions were excellent, and the “BME IN SPACE!” panel was a lot of fun.

Congratulations to the winners of the Best Oral, Poster, and SciCom Video Awards:

View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA) Newsletter May 2023).

Each year the students of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group select student leaders to serve as officers of the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA). Congratulations to the 2023-2024 BESA officers:

View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA) Newsletter October 2022.

 View the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA) Newsletter September 2022.

Each year the students of the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group select student leaders to serve as offices of the Biomedical Engineering Student Association (BESA). Congratulations to the 2022-2023 BESA officers:

The 11th annual BMEGG Student Research Symposium was held on Friday, May 13th.  Dr. Katherine Ferrara, Professor of Radiology and the Division Chief for the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University, provided the keynote address titled "Career experiences of an Industrial Project Engineer, Biomedical Engineering Department Chair and Department of Radiology Division Chief". Current graduate students delivered 8 podium presentations, 23 poster presentations, and 3 science communication videos (a new category).

Leora Goldbloom-Helzner, BME Ph.D. Candidate under the mentorship of Professor Aijun Wang, and Abby Niesen, BME Ph.D. Candidate under the mentorship of Professor Maury Hull, were recently selected as fellows of the UC Davis Professors for the Future Program for 2022-2023. 

This competitive program provides outstanding Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars with  leadership-development opportunities and a $3000 stipend. The 2022-2023 cohort will engage in the following activities:

Congratulations to Caitlin Banks and Hanna Koster, both Ph.D. Candidates in the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group, on their selection for the College of Engineering 2022 Graduate Student Excellence Awards.

This award recognizes a graduate student who has demonstrated exemplary leadership in promoting equity, diversity and inclusion.

We recently concluded the 2021 Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Retreat.