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Badger Solar Racing Car with student standing behind

Cross-college collab drives innovation: Badger Solar Racing

Badger Solar Racing is a team of dedicated undergraduate and graduate students from across the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison committed to building a solar-powered car for…

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PhD student Rebecca Alcock with her dog in Lucerne, Switzerland.
October 1, 2024

Fulbright award sends PhD student to Switzerland

Rebecca Alcock, a PhD student in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a Fulbright/Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship to spend 10 months in Switzerland conducting research….

Lauren Fitzsimmons and Molly Paras
September 27, 2024

BME team competes for college inventors prize

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineers is one of 10 finalists in the 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Current senior Lauren…

Phil Terrien and Matt Knoespel
September 24, 2024

BME spinoffs earn SEED funding

Two companies with ties to the UW-Madison Department of Biomedical Engineering are among the funding recipients of the annual State Economic Engagement and Development (SEED) program. The first is Atrility…

UW Crest with engineering background
September 24, 2024

UW-Madison ranks 7th among publics in U.S. News undergraduate engineering program rankings

The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering was ranked seventh overall among public universities in the 2025 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Engineering Schools undergraduate rankings. Individual…

Samir Rosas
September 19, 2024

Graduate student receives Grainger Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship

Biomedical engineering PhD candidate Samir Rosas received a prestigious Grainger Fellowship for graduate researchers. Rosas received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Colombia, and worked…

25th Anniversary Celebration for the Biomedical Engineering Department
September 12, 2024

Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation

This year marks a significant milestone for the Department of Biomedical Engineering as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary! The department was started on July 1, 1999, thanks to a grant…

UW Crest with engineering background
August 30, 2024

BME students receive Tau Beta Pi scholarships

University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering students Sofia Fardella and Ava Lanczy are among the nationwide recipients of 2024-25 Tau Beta Pi scholarships. Tau Beta Pi is an engineering honor society…

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August 20, 2024

Second annual alumni social a success

Departments from across the UW-Madison College of Engineering hosted the second annual ice cream social at the Memorial Union on August 15. Rainy weather moved the event indoors to the…

Mitchell Josvai
August 2, 2024

PhD student wins American Heart Association poster award

Mitchell Josvai, a PhD student in biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is among the winners in the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Scientific Sessions Early Career Poster…

Aviad Hai
August 1, 2024

Hai receives early stage NSF grant for nanofabricated brain sensors

Aviad Hai, a Vilas Early Career assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received an Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation…