Salazar: New SBME Board Member

Stephanie Salazar (‘11 B.S. Mechanical Engineering) is a senior sterile device engineer at Medtronic and currently works in Research and Development for the Restorative Therapies Group, Brain Division. She joined Medtronic in 2011 as a Technical Specialist in the Services Organization. Stephanie’s technical expertise includes mechanical design, biocompatibility, device reprocessing, sterilization and packaging of single…Read more

Nguyen-Truong Becomes 2019-20 Research Fellow for Winning 3-Minute Challenge

Thirty-nine graduate students vied for fellowships as they explained their research in three minutes for a panel of judges on February 11, 2019. As students quickly summarized their research, judges scored the content and comprehension of the presentation, as well as students’ effective engagement and communication skills. Fifteen participants in the Vice President for Research…Read more

BME E-Days Award Winners

    Engineering Days (E-Days) provides undergraduate engineering students an opportunity to showcase their completed senior design projects to faculty, family, industry representatives, and peers. The capstone senior design project teaches students how to succeed in a well-integrated interdisciplinary engineering design environment and allows students to develop practical, hands-on skills. On April 19, 2019, members…Read more

Innovative mechanobiology research expands understanding of cells

By Sona Srinarayana Researchers have developed a new technology that allows them to probe cell changes without disturbing the cell’s physiology – a major advancement that helps scientists look more closely at cell changes to solve human health problems, according to a new paper in Cell Reports. This technology, known as deformation microscopy, allows scientists…Read more

Joyce E. McConnell hired as next CSU president

  The Board of Governors of the Colorado State University System voted unanimously on March 29 to hire Joyce E. McConnell to lead the System’s flagship institution into its 150th year, building on a decade that has seen record levels of enrollment, donor and alumni support and research funding, along with the dramatic transformation of…Read more

CSU researchers discover new technique to test for viral infections

A team of Colorado State University researchers has developed technology that can detect extremely small amounts of antibodies in a person’s blood. Antibodies develop to infect cells or kill pathogens, essentially fighting off a bacteria or virus. The levels of antibodies in the blood can tell whether that person is sick. Using a small wire…Read more

Best of the best: Outstanding teachers to be honored

CSU will honor its very best teachers March 27 at the annual Best Teacher Awards banquet in the Lory Student Center Theater. This year’s winners include representatives from five colleges. Nominations are accepted from students, faculty and alumni, and winners are selected by a committee of students, faculty and staff, and alumni. The Best Teacher…Read more

Students take on superbugs at synthetic biology competition

It’s projected that by 2050, 10 million people will die per year from diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. That’s more than the current death rate due to cancer and diabetes combined, and will cost $100 trillion to treat. The primary method for treating bacterial infections is antibiotics. Yet these deadly bacteria are rapidly acquiring antibiotic…Read more

Open Insulin, ‘DIY bio’ and the future of pharma

The development, manufacture and sale of pharmaceutical drugs in the United States is a complex landscape involving intellectual property and strict federal regulations. But according to Colorado State University scientists, the status quo of the U.S. pharmaceutical market may soon be turned on its head. That’s due in part to a growing community of do-it-yourself…Read more