Archive: Biological Engineering | Engineering | University of Missouri

A man and a woman shake hands while holding an award and looking at the camera.

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

Student research mentor, posters garner awards

At the “Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum” held April 23, chemical engineering Assistant Professor Matthew Bernards won the Office of Undergraduate Research’s 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, and engineering students took top honors for their research posters.

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Why does Mizzou need Engineering?

Mizzou’s campus is a hub for collaboration across disciplines.

A woman on the left poses with a man on the right who was a Mizzou '39 recipient.

Monday, March 4th, 2013

Three engineers among Mizzou ’39

Each year the Mizzou Alumni Association Student Board reviews applications from top university seniors — weighing academic achievement, leadership and service to Mizzou and the community — to select the Mizzou ’39.

Civil and environmental engineering junior Sital Uprety, fourth from left, and Paulos Mengsteab, 10th from left, are among 18 University of Missouri students named to the 2012-2013 Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program. The McNair Scholars Program aims to provide research opportunities as well as academic and professional growth and graduate school preparation to students who are first-generation college students or who are from a group underrepresented in graduate studies. Photo by MU McNair Scholars Program

Friday, November 30th, 2012

Engineering students earn spots among McNair Scholars, publish research articles in annual journal

Two engineering students are among 18 University of Missouri students named to the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. Paulos [...]

Biological engineering Professor Sheila Grant, center, wears her Faculty-Alumni Award medal while posing with Mizzou Alumni Association President Jim Gwinner and University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton. Photo provided by the Mizzou Alumni Association

Monday, October 29th, 2012

BE professor earns Faculty-Alumni Award

In October, University of Missouri College of Engineering biological engineering Professor Sheila Grant was awarded a 2012 Faculty-Alumni Award. The [...]

On August 31, the University of Missouri held an awards ceremony to announce the first round of funding to engineer-clinician research teams as part of the Wallace H. Coulter Translational Partnership Program. The University received a five-year grant of $5 million to be used as "bridge" funding to move innovative bioengineering research discoveries to the marketplace. Speaking at the ceremony were, right to left., Robert Tzou, interim associate dean of engineering and chairman of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department; Robert J. Churchill, dean of the MU School of Medicine; Jinglu Tan, chairman of the Department of Bioengineering; MU Chancellor Brady Deaton at the podium; and Jake Halliday, MU Coulter program director. Photo by Shane Epping

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Coulter Foundation awards announced

In June 2011, the University of Missouri learned its proposal to work with the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation through its [...]

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

MU quarter-scale tractor team finishes third at student design competition

The University of Missouri College of Engineering quarter-scale tractor team, Torque ‘n’ Tigers, placed third overall at the American Society [...]

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Researchers take aim at rapid detection of sepsis in neonates

“This research started when I was working as a postdoc at Notre Dame, where we were trying to develop a [...]

2012 Spring-Summer

Biological engineering professor Fu-Hung Hsieh’s research into the development of a soy-based chicken substitute with the flavor and texture of the real thing has resulted in his technology’s licensing by the university to Maryland -based Savage River Farms, now known as “Beyond Meat.”

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Hsieh’s soy chicken research moves closer to consumer kitchens

Biological engineering professor Fu-Hung Hsieh’s research into the development of a soy-based chicken substitute with the flavor and texture of [...]

2012 Spring-Summer

Brittani Bungart's poster won first place in the physical sciences and engineering category at the University of Missouri's Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum. Bungart's poster focused on a method using nanoparticles to deliver lower level light therapy to the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Undergraduate researchers present posters at annual forum

Fully 112 undergraduate students received support from the College of Engineering to conduct research this semester in a faculty mentor’s [...]

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Five MU Engineering seniors receive National Science Foundation grad school fellowships

“Shocked,” “excited” and “happy” are some of the words five University of Missouri College of Engineering seniors used to describe [...]

Jimmy Winkelmann is one of only 12 students to earn a spot at the HST-Wellman Summer Institute for Biomedical Optics in Massachusetts.

Friday, April 20th, 2012

Biological engineering student secures prestigious Ivy League research internship

Most engineering students interested in research know that getting a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internship is an important step [...]

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Graduate student places in final three of student paper competition

Anna Hodge, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, was one of three finalists in the 2011 K.K. Barnes [...]

Associate Professor Bill Jacoby and research assistant, Nick Wilkinson, stand in Jacoby’s lab, known as the Carbon Recycling Center, to the right of the lab’s biomass supercritical water gasification reactor, in which biomass — they’re using algae paste — is turned into high value fuel gases.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Under pressure and in hot water: biomass to gas

As members of a carbon resource dependent culture gazing into our uncertain energy future, we are daily inundated with stories [...]

2011 Spring-Summer

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Engineers rank high at achievement forum

Each spring, the Office of Undergraduate Research hosts an Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum, offering undergraduate students the opportunity [...]

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Biological engineering students land impressive summer positions

Because they are sponsored by prestigious national agencies, three biological engineering student summer internships are especially noteworthy. Rebekah Conley, a [...]

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Three engineering seniors garner NSF graduate school fellowships

As graduation presents go, it’s hard to beat a National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate research fellowship; just ask the three [...]

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Bioengineering grad student twice honored

Xiaoguang Yang’s final semester as a student in the University of Missouri’s Biological Engineering Department has been an eventful one. [...]

Monday, April 4th, 2011

New student org targets biodesign

A small group of students with a big interest in the innovative process and potential reward of successful biodesign efforts [...]

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Confocal microscopy image of live (green) and dead (red) mouse fibroblast cells growing on porcine diaphragm with gold nanomaterials

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Gold nanoparticles used in wound-healing tissue scaffolding

Healing wounds with tissue scaffolding is like constructing a building, explained University of Missouri biological engineering doctoral student Matt Cozad. [...]