Dr. Deanna Stueber started her journey at Brown in 2016 as a Master’s student in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering. Eight years later, she will culminate her experience as a Brown graduate student as a PhD commencement speaker later this month.
I-BEAM Retreat
The spirit of accomplishment and the promise of a bright future were palpable as the I-BEAM community gathered for the Spring Retreat on May 16.
After completing her PhD in Brown’s Biomedical Engineering program Dr. Josephine Kalshoven feels like “the world is my oyster.” Josephine plans to pursue a career in the medical devices industry, and the possibilities for making a positive impact through the field are endless. “I really do think medical devices are the future for health,” she said.
Adriana Coll De Peña wears many hats — she’s a wildlife photographer, a scientist at Moderna, and an advocate for Chicano, Hispanic, and Native American STEM students. Born in the Dominican Republic, where there were “great health disparities,” Adriana “identified early on that I wanted to pursue a career in a field that would allow me” to have a meaningful impact on solving those problems.
Growing up in Bangladesh, Dr. Ramisa Fariha was only in seventh grade when she learned about the Biomedical Engineering research being conducted at Brown — it was Dr. Jeff Morgan’s work with artificial mice ovaries that inspired her to pursue BME. “It was like I had my entire life trajectory gifted to me in the form of ‘biomedical engineering,’” she said.
Last month, Dr. Marissa Gray led “Ask Me Anything: BME Careers,” an informal event and discussion aimed at answering students’ questions about job opportunities in Biomedical Engineering. Targeted at all students – from first-year undergraduates to Ph.D candidates – Gray offered advice and strategies ready for immediate implementation.
Christopher (Chris) Shin, Paul Ogan, Tobias (Toby) Meng-Saccoccio, Albert Wu, Evrim Ozcan, and Venkatsai (Shri) Bellala are a team of seniors in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. They’ve known each other since freshman year. Now, in their BME Capstone, they are working together to alter the future of emergency drug delivery.
When Nazanin (Naz) Ahmadi first came to Brown, she knew she would be working on Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) with her advisor—Dr. George Karniadakis, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering.
Injy El-Dib is a senior concentrating in Biomedical Engineering on the Pre-medical track and a member of the Shukla Lab.