Shoutout to our summer undergrads, David, Ashauntee, Ashley, and Matt, for successful presentations at the UT Dallas Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research 2025! David and Ashauntee were awarded the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science Award, Ashley received the UT Dallas President’s Office Award, and Matt received the ENSURE Award. We are so proud of your accomplishments and hard work this summer!
Check out this article highlighting SPUR featuring Matt and Ashley!
Congratulations to Qinhan for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!! We are so proud of you and will miss you dearly. Best wishes on your next chapter Dr. Zhou!
Congrats to Qinhan on his publication in Scientific Reports! Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11094-8
Congratulations to Triniti, Fatemeh, Lily, and Mari on their podium talks at the 2025 SBC conference in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico! Additionally, congrats to Kris on her tenure as program chair and for organizing a fantastic conference!
Congratulations, Deepa, for earning her BS in Biomedical Engineering and graduating magna cum laude! We wish you the best on your next steps 🙂
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David was recognized at the UTD BMEN Spring Celebration for his poster presentation at the undergraduate competition! Congrats David!
Congratulations, Lily and Mari, for being awarded the Excellence in Education Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year!
Fatemeh, David, Mari, and Lily presented at the Women’s Health Research Initiative Spring Forum at UTSW! Learn about the Women’s Health Research Initiative here: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/womens-health/
Congratulations to David for presenting at his first-ever National Conference! He presented on vaginal mechanics of a double knockout mouse model at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Congratulations to Mari and Triniti on their publication in Annals of Biomedical Engineering! Their work focused on mechanical and compositional changes in the aged murine uterus. This is one of the first studies in the uterus to combine mechanics and Raman spectroscopy for complementary analysis. Please read it here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10439-025-03709-y
Congratulations to Annika for passing the PhD qualifying exam!
Congratulations to Dr. Miller for being awarded an NIH R01!
Fatemeh, Qinhan, and David presented posters at the North Texas Biomedical Engineering Symposium! Congratulations to David for placing 1st in the undergraduate division!
Congratulations to David Matayo for placing 2nd in the UTD BME Undergraduate Poster Competition!
Women’s Health Panel at BMES 2024! Hosted by Dr. Erika Moore, Dr. Shreya Raghavan, Dr. Miller, Dr. Michelle Oyen, and Dr. Kristin Myers.
Congratulations to Triniti, our collaborator, for winning first place in the poster competition at the Third Annual Workshop on Imaging and Data Science!
Congratulations to Dr. Pence on being named one of the recipients of a Berns-SPIE SPARK Grants from SPIE to develop a fiber optic probe for the clinical assessment of pelvic organ prolapse!
Congrats to Mari on passing her proposal defense!
Sanjana presented her summer research at the Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research! Sanjana was a visiting BE STARS student from UT Austin and is interested in pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering! Follow along her journey here:
SB3C 2024 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin! Congratulations to Mari, Qinhan, Triniti (Pence Lab), Andrew (Ferruzzi Lab), and Adil (Ferruzzi Lab) on their hard work and for presenting their exciting results!
A warm welcome to our newest PhD student, Annika! Annika is from Seattle, Washington and will be joining the vaginal extension-inflation and Raman spectroscopy teams!
