Clemson Bioengineering

CITADEL ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES ELIGIBLE FOR A MASTER OF SCIENCE OR MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEGREE FROM CLEMSON By Jordon Gilmore

    Dr. Jordon Gilmore is one of BIOE’s newest tenure-track faculty. Among Key Personnel on Sarah Harcum’s National Science Foundation EPSCoR Track II Advanced Biomanufacturing grant, Jordon was PI on a 2016 Tiger Grant. Clemson-Citadel Joint Program Director, Jordon is an alumnus of both The Citadel’s Electrical Engineering program and Clemson’s Bioengineering program. His […]

DR. NAREN VYAVAHARE HONORED BY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

The Board of Trustees annually recognizes the achievements and contributions of Clemson University’s faculty and staff. The purpose of the Board of Trustees Award for Excellence is to identify and acknowledge faculty and staff whose vision, accomplishments, and efforts have brought honor to Clemson University. At the 2017 award session, Dr. Naren Vyavahare was awarded […]

JOSH LOVEKAMP, GORE PRODUCT SPECIALIST By Josh Lovekamp

After a combined ten years of college and graduate school, it is hard to imagine what life might be like outside of academia. During my first visit to the Medical Products Division of W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., I learned that it doesn’t have to be that different. That was almost 13 years ago […]

MEETING CLINICAL NEEDS THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP By Shannon Pierce, Founder, New Ocean Health Solutions

Clemson University, CUBEInC, and Greenville have played a vital role in my professional development. I graduated from Clemson University’s College of Nursing fully equipped to work in cardiac care and engage in strategic conversations with healthcare and business professionals. The hands-on practical skills combined with the scientific background and leadership training continue to benefit and […]

WORKING FOR THE BETTERMENT OF PATIENTS’ LIVES WORLDWIDE: DAN AND AGGIE SIMIONESCU

A tenured professor with the admiration and respect of his colleagues, Dr. Dan Simionescu could be resting on the laurels he continues to amass. However, he and spouse Dr. Aggie Simionescu continue to create projects for themselves in many venues. Aggie and Dan served as editors for the online textbook “Physiologic and Pathologic Angiogenesis—Signaling Mechanisms […]

SMARTSTATE ENDOWED CHAIR IN BIOFABRICATION: DR. BRUCE GAO

According to Dr. Bruce Gao, nature, including every biological system, builds objects generally through two procedures: adding parts together and/or subtracting parts from the whole. For example, our fingers are formed first through adding various cell types together during embryonic development to create a palm-like block, and then the block is carved into fingers through […]

BIOENGINEERING RANKS 4TH IN THE NATION FOR VALUE By Paul Alongi

Clemson University came in fourth among the nation’s 50 best value schools for biomedical engineering, according to a new ranking from bestvalueschools.com. The ranking included a variety of factors, including graduation rate, accreditation date, degree popularity, engineering popularity and net price. Martine LaBerge, chair of the Department of Bioengineering at Clemson, said the ranking underscores that […]

A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR DESCRIBES HER PATH By Hannah Davis

  Before bioengineering at Clemson, Julia Brisbane studied piano for 12 years at a magnet school for the arts in Charleston, South Carolina. Math and science classes were not her top priority then, but attending an EMAG!NE event changed everything. EMAG!NE — a program offered by the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences — […]

DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION NAMED

Dr. Angela Alexander-Bryant has been named the department’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Here, she describes her goals and some of her strategies to augment diversity of faculty and students and to increase the department’s level of inclusion. Editor What would you like to accomplish in your new role? I would like to increase recruitment […]