黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 biomedical engineering (BME) graduate program bounced back from three years outside the top 10 to reclaim its place as one of the nation鈥檚 leaders in the discipline this month.
In U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 annual rankings of graduate and professional programs, 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 BME offerings tied with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania in the No. 10 spot, with its peer score just one-tenth of a point behind programs at Rice University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Washington (all of which tied for seventh).
鈥淲e appreciate this recognition from our academic peers in biomedical engineering,鈥 Dean Jeffrey Duerk said of the improved ranking. Duerk, who chaired BME from 2008 through the beginning of this year, noted that the department recently saw significant progress in terms of faculty recruitment and research achievements. 鈥淎 powerful sense of momentum exists here, and we look forward to building upon it in the years to come.鈥
Among recent appointments to the department are:
- Assistant Professor A. Bolu Ajiboye, PhD, who specializes in creating brain-computer interfaces aimed at assisting those who have suffered debilitating illness or injury to regain motor function.
- Assistant Professor Jeffrey R. Capadona, PhD, who focuses on developing biomaterials that can be used in the brain without provoking rejection or damaging existing tissues.
- Assistant Professor Nicole Seiberlich, PhD, who focuses on advanced signal processing in imaging.
- Assistant Professor Nicole Steinmetz, PhD, who concentrates on how viral nanoparticles can be used in tissue engineering, imaging and drug delivery.