Students in the News
UW Bioengineering students excel in research, leadership and service. Read on to learn how our students are inventing the future of medicine.
Endozene, LegUp Prosthetics and Piezopulse win top prizes at the 2023 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Winning BioE team members and some of their work. Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship and Soraya Bailey/UW Bioengineering Seven teams involving UW BioE students were among 22 teams to compete [...]
BioE graduates gain hands-on experience in cardiovascular science and engineering
A patient specific cardiac model with a breakdown of the machine learning identified features which depict why this patient may have had recurrent atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation. Image by Savannah Bifulco Five UW graduate [...]
Seven BioE teams to compete in the 2023 Health Innovation Challenge finals
Congratulations to the seven UW Bioengineering-related teams competing in the 2023 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) March 2. The Bioengineering students are part of 22 regional finalist teams facing off in the competition. Four [...]
UW BioE students receive scholarships and fellowships
We are proud of our students who have been honored with scholarships or fellowships for the 2022-2023 academic year. Levinson Emerging Scholars Award The Levinson Emerging Scholars Award supports talented and highly [...]
Creating Community through Coffee Chats
The isolation imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic brought to light how important social connection is for a person’s well-being. Recognizing the significance of connection, a group of UW Bioengineering students, at the suggestion of faculty, [...]
BioE Ph.D. student Julien Bloch, receives the 2022 Center for Neurotechnology Best Paper Award
UW Bioengineering Ph.D. student, Julien Bloch, was named the 2022 recipient of the Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) Best Paper Award for Neurotechnology Advancement.
Humans of BioE
The student-led Humans of UW Bioengineering project offers an inside perspective of the department’s student experience, direct from students themselves.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Wing Yun Au
Senior Wing Yun works on optogenetics in Azadeh Yazdan's lab.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Laura Lyu
Undergrad JEDI volunteer plans for dental school after BioE degree.
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Marissa Shumaker
Active volunteer and mentor aims for medical school.
HUMANS Of BIOENGNEERING: Osvaldo Arias
UW Bioengineering undergraduate student Osvaldo Arias is a junior currently doing research in the Stayton Lab with Patrick Stayton, UW Bioengineering Distinguished Term Professor and director of the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute. The lab [...]
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Jamison Siebart
Jamison Siebart, who hails from Uniontown, Penn., is going into his senior year as a UW bioengineering undergraduate student. His focus is on nano- and molecular engineering. Jamison’s area of research is in the field [...]
HUMANS OF BIOENGINEERING: Luke Thurber
Luke Thurber is a Husky through and through. From Edmonds, Wash., Luke received his bachelor's in bioengineering from the UW and graduated in June 2021 from the Master of Applied Bioengineering program (MAB) in UW [...]