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Kristin Myers Peng
November 3, 2025

Kristin Myers Peng: 2025 Distinguished Achievement Award recipient

BSBME ’02 (MBA ’07, Harvard University)Healthcare leader, advisor and board member A biomedical engineer, executive and entrepreneur who is transforming healthcare outcomes through technology and innovation. Kristin Myers grew up…

Sarah Sandock
November 3, 2025

Sarah Sandock: 2025 Early Career Award recipient

BSBME ’12, MSBME ’13Founder & CEO, Dock Technologies A biomedical engineer and entrepreneur whose company focuses on improving patient outcomes through technology that tracks medical device placement. Medical devices enable…

PANTHER 2025
September 26, 2025

Interdisciplinary team culture of PANTHER TBI program celebrated in fall 2025 meeting

The annual PANTHER meeting last week in Madison highlighted the success of interdisciplinary teamwork across the College with participants from the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and…

UW Crest with engineering background
September 23, 2025

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 2026 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Engineering Schools undergraduate rankings. Individual…

Joshua Brockman
September 10, 2025

Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Brockman

Assistant Professor Joshua Brockman joined the department in the fall of 2023. Read on to learn more about his research. Research FocusMechanical forces are everywhere in biology. Cancer cells exert…

Anna Tommasi
August 29, 2025

PhD student pushes CRISPR-edited CAR-T cells closer to the clinic

As an undergraduate chemical engineering student at Villanova University, Anna Tommasi took a course in cell engineering that spurred her interest in developing biomedical therapies. It was the start of…

Dean Devesh at ice cream social 2025
August 27, 2025

3rd annual ice cream social is a cherry on top

The 3rd annual College of Engineering alumni ice cream social on August 21 was a sweet treat at the end of a beautiful afternoon at the Terrace. It was wonderful…

All engineering students giving W sign with hands outside of engineering hall
August 1, 2025

Advice for New BME Students

August is here, and before you know it, the semester will start. Here are some insider tips for new BME students to help you thrive in your first year as…

William Murphy
June 20, 2025

Murphy leads effort for shelf-stable mRNA vaccine pills

William Murphy, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics and rehabilitation, will lead a project to develop messenger RNA therapies that can be stored at room temperature….

Professor Kenneth Lee and the 'Cyst Blaster' team
June 19, 2025

Biomedical engineering students help solve clinical radiology challenges

Each semester, undergraduate students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s design program take on projects from clients that include community members, companies and UW-Madison researchers. Clinicians and faculty members in…