EBICS News
Dr. Linda Griffth, EBICS Researcher and Education Director, is one of four professors recently selected for the high honor on the MacVicor Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded annually to professors from MIT who demonstrate...
EBICS wishes to congratulate Sebastien Uzel from Dr. Kamm's lab on his award from ASME for his poster titled "Innovative Microfluidic Platform to Direct Cell Migration, Stem Cell Differentiation or Tissue Engineering."
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An article on the biobots created by the Bashir and Kong labs has beeen pciked up by several major news organizations. Most recently it was printed in the Los Angeles Times on December 8, 2012 and the Chicago Tribune on December 13, 2012.
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Qaadir (Sheps) King-McAlpin, an EBICS REU student in the Asada lab in 2012, won a poster award at the 2012 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) conference in San Jose, CA. Mr. King-McAlipn competed in...
Through our high school research program EBICS is creating authentic opportunities for underrepresented high school students. In summer 2013 students from the Benjamin Carson BEST Academy and the Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership...
EBICS Researcher, Fei Wang's recent article "Identificatcation of key regulatory pathways of myeloid differentiation using an mESC-based...
EBICS co-sponsored the 2012 MIT International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team. iGEM was established in 2004 as the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition with the goal to...
Congratulations to EBICS researchers Steve Stice and Anirban Majumder whose article will be published in Stem Cells. The article entitled, "Neurotrophic Effects of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor on Neural Cells Derived from Human...
EBICS partnered with MIT InnoWorks to provide a free week-long science and engineering camp August 13-17, 2012 for underprivileged middle school students in the Boston and Cambridge areas. Through...
Congratulatulations to Rashid Bashir, EBICS faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on his recent award from the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) for...
Congratulations to the Fall 2011 Freshman Discovery class, Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Biology, Engineering, and Health Science! On Wednesday, December 14, they presented posters on various topics, including:
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The Keystone Fellows program is highly unique, research-driven, diversity-centered program with the goal to educate early career scientists regarding the inner...
The EBICS cosponsored MIT iGEM team placed first in the health and medicine track and fourth overall out of 160 teams at the 2011 iGEM jamobree.
The MIT iGEM project...
Cornell Young, EBICS REU in the Platt lab in summer 2011, won a poster award at the 2011 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) conference in St. Louis, MO. Mr. Young competed in the cancer biology section...
Organized by EBICS’s own Dr. Manu Platt from Georgia Tech and sponsored by the BMES Diversity Committee, the 2nd annual Celebration of Minorities in BME...
The AGMUS Research Sympoisum is a chance for students from Puerto Rico to gain exposure to the various research and grad school opportunities at mainland institutions. Hundreds of students from institutions across Puerto Rico and the continental...
The Morehouse HOPPS Scholars hosted their 3rd Annual Research Symposium and Recruitment Fair. It is intended to showcase the research being done by the undergraduates and allow the opportunity for them to interact with recruiters from national...
The Diversity Program Manager met with students in the General Studies undergraduate program who are transferring to the Engineering undergraduate program at UPR-Mayaguez. This is the first time this campus has hosted representatives from...
At this info session, we described the transfer process to dual degree students who are interested in transferring to GA Tech to complete their engineering degrees. The Diversity Program Manager spoke to the students about undergraduate research...
The EBICS Student Leadership Council (SLC) launched BioBotsBites.org as a central source for interesting journal articles, significant research findings, and exciting new results relevant to...
URBANA, Ill. — Internationally renowned scholar, researcher and academic leader Lawrence B. Schook has been named Vice President for Research at the University of Illinois, pending approval by the Board of Trustees, President Michael...
EBICS External Advisory Committee member Mahendra S. Rao has been appointed director of the NIH Intramural Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH-CRM), a new center that...
During the Fall 2010 semester, the EBICS Evaluation Team conducted and evaluated a pilot of the GTC in which a Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics course was delivered via videoconferencing. MIT served as the host...
EBICS Trainees, Mustafa Mir and Vincent Chan, were 2 of 11 recipients of the Best Poster Award for the Bioengineering Poster Session held on Friday, April 1 on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus. Over 50 student...
The EBICS Education Program is pleased to announce the launch of its 1st full-scale Graduate Teaching Consortium (GTC) courses:
- Cell as a Machine, taught by Professors Michael Sheetz (Columbia University) and...
A new Discovery course entitled, Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Biology, Engineering, and Health Science, is set to launch Fall 2011 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The goals of the course are to...
Congratulations to Dr. Phoebe Lenear for being selected to receive the 2011 YWCA Trailblazer Leadership Award for her leadership in promoting the involvement of women and minorities on the University of Illinois at Urbana-...
EBICS faculty, staff and trainees at UIUC participated in the 91st annual Engineering Open House, "Defining the Future." It was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 11-12, 2011. EOH is a unique event and...
EBICS faculty member Manu Platt is honored by the Georgia Tech FACES (Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science) program.
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EBICS welcomed Morehouse College Hopps Scholars on March 9th. Students learned about MIT graduate programs and toured the EBICS laboratories of Dr. Harry Asada and Dr. Roger Kamm.
The visiting students are majoring in STEM...
On February 16th, over 200 middle and high school students came to the GA Tech campus to participate in an "Engineering Explorations Day" sponsored by the College of Engineering. For this year's challenge, the students were asked to design and...
EBICS Associate Director Linda Griffith is among the 68 new members and nine foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on February 8th, 2011.
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On February 4, EBICS faculty and staff at UIUC joined forces with the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training in Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and BioNanotechnology, the National Institutes of Health Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology...
EBICS researchers Roger Kamm and Gang Bao were elected Fellows of AAAS at the recent Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA
On Thursday, December 2, 2010, EBICS partnered with CMDITR, another Science and Technology Center, to host a Campus Day with Langston Hughes High School. The students were able to go on lab tours in the Kemp, Platt and Nerem labs, do hands on...
From November 10th-13th, 2010 EBICS attended ABRMCS, the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students held in Charlotte, NC. At that conference, we met with over 100 highly qualified students who were interested in summer research...
On October 27, Jimmy Hsia and Phoebe Lenear participated in a Science Diversity Summit located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, the summit was designed to facilitate opportunities for...
Roger D. Kamm, the Singapore Research Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering at MIT, is one of 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine.
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On Saturday September 18th, GA Tech hosted its Buzz on Biotechnology High School Open House. This annual science fair is organized entirely by graduate students from ...
