Biomedical Engineering undergraduate student Diana Albarracin is a 2022 UVA Engineering Outstanding Student Awardee. Diana has been tremendously successful in her undergraduate studies. She also served as the president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) for two years. She was a member of the Engineering School’s Racial Equity Task Force and also served as the undergraduate representative in the search committee for the Dean of the School of Engineering. She will continue her career as a biomedical engineer at Medtronic. We will miss her and wish her well.

Redouane, Nik, Jordan, and Yoni judged middle and high school students’ science projects as part of the Virginia Piedmont Regional Science Fair held on Saturday, March 5, 2022. The competition featured projects from students representing Albemarle, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Greene, King George, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, Orange, Rappahannock, Spotsylvania, Fauquier, and Stafford counties. This was Redouane’s 5th year as a judge!

CBS19 and NBC29 interviewed Dr. Yang and Dr. Civelek about their study on KLF14 published in Diabetes. You can find the news articles here and here.

Graduate student Jordan Reed and her mentee Dhanush Banka were awarded the Double Hoo Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research. The Double Hoo Research Grant supports pairs of undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research together. Their project is titled “The combined effects of genetic background and diet on metabolism” and is part of a collaboration with Drs. Susanna Keller, Heather Ferris, Sibylle Kranz, and Bijoy Kundu.