CBE Seminar: David Bark

Title: "Pumps and disease creating a turbulent relationship with our blood"

Mechanical circulatory support used to treat patients with heart failure often leads to two seemingly disparate events: bleeding and thrombotic (blood clot) complications. Similar complications can be seen in other blood contacting devices and in some disease, like an aortic stenosis. We recently found that turbulence, occurring in these environments, can profoundly affect blood components when compared to laminar flow environments.

Biomedical Doctoral Student Earns Top Honor at ISMRM Conference

Jamini Bhagu, a doctoral student in chemical and biomedical engineering at Florida State University and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, was awarded first place for her presentation at the 2023 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) annual meeting. The Diffusion Study Group selected Bhagu’s poster for first place in her division at the event in Toronto.
 

Building a Better Solar Cell: Researchers Investigate Material Performance Under Real-World Conditions

Researchers at Florida State University and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering are helping build the solar cells of tomorrow by examining how a next-generation material can operate efficiently under real-world conditions that include baking temperatures and hours of sunlight.

Their work was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.