
Celebrating BME Faculty and Student Awards for Spring 2025
Duke BME faculty and students garnered a wide array of impressive awards and recognition over the academic year
Our faculty members are recognized nationally and internationally for their professional excellence
Duke BME faculty and students garnered a wide array of impressive awards and recognition over the academic year
Funding from the HFSP will support Hickey and his collaborators investigate how different molecules direct cellular behavior
Recent BME graduate Neil Upreti received the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate study at Stanford University
A comprehensive listing of awards given to faculty and staff from Duke Engineering
Presented to the Biomedical Engineering senior with the most outstanding academic record as determined by a faculty committee
The award commemorates the contributions of Leonardo da Vinci in laying the foundation of the mechanistic study of human life.
Given to a graduating senior who presents the best research project, as judged by department faculty
This award commemorates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz in laying the foundation of biomedical engineering.
Given to a Pratt Research Fellow in biomedical engineering with the best engineering design project, as judged by a faculty committee
Established in 2012 in memory of Ned Light, who worked for at Duke 22 years—pioneering research in real-time 3D ultrasound imaging and mentoring a host of undergraduate students both in the lab and in life skills.
Given in recognition of outstanding perseverance and accomplishment in the study of biomedical engineering
Established in 1993 by the Whitaker Foundation as an endowment award in memory of Dr. Pilkington, founding chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. The recipient is selected at the end of their junior year.