BME,Fellows News

April 2, 2008

Three Duke Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships

DURHAM, N.C. -- Three Duke University students have been selected for Goldwater Scholarships in science, mathematics and engineering for the 2008-09 academic year.They were among 321 sophomores and juniors chosen on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,035 mathematics, science and engineering students nationwide. Three of Duke’s four nominees were selected. The award provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses. Duke’s Goldwater Scholars are Mark Hallen, Nicholas Patrick and engineering student Daniel ...

October 1, 2007

Pratt Pair Wins YouTube Contest

Watch Laura Moore and Lisa Richard's video "Shedding Light on Breast Cancer," which highlights their research done as Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellows. Two seniors in the Pratt School of Engineering have won the Duke University prize in a national YouTube video competition. Laura Moore (BME '08) and Lisa Richards (BME '08) produced a three-minute film about a research project that is using specially filtered light to improve breast cancer detection and measurement. Both students have been working ...

June 23, 2006

Fulbright Sends Mugler to Study Brain-Machine Interface in Germany

Emily Mugler, who graduated last month from Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, has won a 2006 Fulbright Scholarship to study neuroscience in southwestern Germany. The award will take her to the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen for up to 12 months of research and study. Mugler , a former Pratt Research Fellow, will explore the brain-machine interface in the lab of Niels Birbaumer. She will focus on the ...

May 1, 2005

Diekman Receives Fulbright to Study in Ireland

Pratt senior Brian Diekman has been selected to receive a 2005 Fulbright Scholarship from the Irish Fulbright Commission. The award will provide Diekman support for up to 12 months of research and coursework at the National University of Ireland in Galway. Diekman, from West Lafayette, Ind., is majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in religion, and will graduate in May. He is the second Pratt student to receive a Fulbright this spring. It was announced last ...

May 1, 2003

Pratt Fellow examines genetic manipulation

Imagine conducting innovative and potentially life saving biomedical research all before your 22nd birthday. Jamie Bergen will tell you that such dreams are possible through the Pratt Fellows program. Bergen is one of two dozen undergraduates selected annually to receive the school’s distinguished Pratt Fellowship, which allows students to receive course credit and a summer stipend to conduct research under the direct supervision of faculty members. Fellows are selected their junior year based upon research interests, academic record, intellectual ability and maturity. Bergen’s ...

February 1, 2003

Does a BME Degree Really Prepare You for Medical School?

After surviving a six-week med school boot camp, Pratt biomedical engineering student Kemi Oni says she’s more than ready for medical school. Oni and 107 other minority students from around the U.S. gathered in New York City this past summer for the Minority Medical Education Program, sponsored by Columbia University. The MMEP is an intensive six-week course designed to emulate the first year medical experience. In addition to lectures, students get to observe doctors practicing medicine ...

February 1, 2003

Aruna Venkatesan: Making the Most Out of Engineering

While many students at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering say designing theoretical research projects highlights their undergraduate experience, biomedical junior Aruna Venkatesan says she is most excited by learning more about how engineering can improve the quality of life of others. This appreciation for engineers’ applicability probably stems from her own experience with the uses of biomedical engineering. In middle school, Venkatesan, who is from Pleasanton, Calif., was diagnosed with scoliosis -- an irregular curvature of the spine. She ...