Team News

BRL’s undergraduate Bioengineering senior, Sharon Newman, has been awarded the Fulbright U.S Student Award! For one year starting in September 2015, Sharon will be funded to conduct research and attend classes in the BrainLinks-BrainTools department at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her proposed project “Sensory Exploration of Acutely Implanted TIME in the Rat Sciatic Nerve” will continue her aspirations to conduct neuro-prosthetic research, and increase access to assistive technologies. We congratulate her on her accomplishments, and are excited for her to embark on this fellowship!

The BioEngineering Department recently posted an article highlighting her achievements and plans for the immediate future available here.

Yesterday BRL researcher Tamara Bonaci was awarded the UW’s Society for Women Engineers Outstanding Female Award for 2015! The award is given to an outstanding graduate student and undergraduate annually. Congratulations Tamara!

Read more about the award at the UW EE news post here

The University of Washington posted a great article discussing Sam Burden‘s return to UW EE as an Assistant Professor! Sam attended UW as an undergrad before pursuing his PhD at UC Berkeley, where he is currently a Post-Doc. This coming Fall, Sam will be joining the EE department and the BioRobotics Lab as an assistant professor.

Sam has this to say about joining the BRL:
“I am thrilled to be joining UW EE and the BRL, where I’ll study dynamic motion of robots, humans, and animals.  I’m particularly eager to translate principles from biology to improve the design of robots, and to adapt engineered devices to assist humans.  Between the BRL, the CSNE, and the broader Seattle health sciences community, I couldn’t have found a more ideal place to work.”
Check out the full article here

We were sent a photo from two BRL graduate alumni, Lee White and Thavida Maneewarn, who recently met up in Bangkok.

Congratulations to Charlie, Fredrik, Sina, Hawkeye and Paul!

Thank you Tim O’Neill for the great photo!