• Diana Albarracin is the UVA Engineering Outstanding Student of the Year

    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.

    April 22, 2022 By Civelekl News & Events Uncategorized
  • Zhiwen Xu wins the Goldwater Scholarship

    Congratulations to third-year Civelek Lab undergraduate student Zhiwen Xu for winning the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship! This is the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics in the US. It is given to only 300 undergraduates across the nation and Zhiwen is one of them this year. She is a very interdisciplinary student: a biochemistry and studio art double major! This is a well-deserved recognition of her achievements. You can read more about her and the scholarship here.

    April 22, 2022 By Civelekl News & Events