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BME Seminar Series: Matt Mender

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Predicting finger movements across task contexts in a brain-machine interface Matt MenderPhD CandidateUniversity of Michigan BME Midwest Graduate Student Speaker Exchange Abstract:People with quadriplegia have ranked the restoration of hand and arm function as very important for quality of life. Even with assistive devices, prostheses, and therapies such as functional electrical stimulation, these people often...

ME 903 Graduate Seminar: J.J. Trey Crisco

3M Auditorium, rm 1106 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Ave, Madison

Speaker: J.J. Trey Crisco, Brown University Faculty host: Josh Roth

Welcome Back, Badger! – Bill Bruhn

1800 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison

All College of Engineering students are welcome. Alumnus Bill Bruhn will share his career story with current students.

Assessing the impact of multicomponent interventions on colorectal cancer screening through simulation: What would it take to reach national screening targets in North Carolina?

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

Healthy People 2020 and the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable established colorectal cancer (CRC) screening targets of 70.5% and 80%, respectively. While evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have increased CRC screening, the ability to achieve these targets at the population level remains uncertain. We simulated the impact of multicomponent interventions in North Carolina over 5 years to assess...

BME Seminar Series: Vicky Nguyen, PhD

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Biomechanics of the Optic Nerve Head and Applications to Glaucoma Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, PhDProfessor and Marlin U. Zimmerman Faculty ScholarMechanical EngineeringJohns Hopkins University Abstract:The optic nerve head is a small region in the posterior eyewall, where the axons of the retinal ganglion cells gather to exit the eye and form the optic nerve. The lamina...

Kramer Lecture: Dr. Sharon C. Glotzer

1610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison

Professor Sharon C. Glotzer
Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
What’s in a shape? Towards a unifying picture of bonding and crystal complexity

MS&E Seminar Series: Dr. Kevin Yager

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Dr. Kevin Yager
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Autonomous Materials Discovery using X-ray Scattering

BME Seminar Series: Geeta Mehta, PhD

1003 (Tong Auditorium) Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Personalized Models of Heterogeneous Ovarian Cancer: Advancing Understanding and Treatment Geeta Mehta, PhDAssociate ProfessorMaterials Science & Engineering, Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Michigan Abstract:Ovarian cancer is a highly lethal gynecologic cancer, responsible for 140,000 deaths globally each year. One of the reasons for the poor outcomes is the heterogeneous and complex nature of the primary and metastatic...

Chat with an ECE Prof – Irena Knezevic

Engineering Hall Lobby 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Stop by the Engineering Hall Lobby for an informal chat with ECE Professor Irena Knezevic. Ask her questions about anything...your field of interest, coursework, life experiences...and her interest in books!

CBE Seminar Series: Jingguang Chen

1610 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI, United States

Jingguang Chen
Thayer Lindsley Professor
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Columbia University
New York City, New York