June 6, 2011 | UW Bioengineering

Yongmin Kim honored with IEEE EMBS Award for Excellence in Biomedical Technology

Yongmin Kim, professor of bioengineering, has been honored with the 2011 William J. Morlock Award, the IEEE EMBS Award for Excellence in Biomedical Technology. The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) gives the Morlock Award every other year to an outstanding individual who has made an original contribution involving important application of electronics techniques and concepts to the solution of biomedical problems.

June 6, 2011 | UW Bioengineering

Student-developed water testing tool wins grand prize at UW Business Plan Competition, and other BIOE students honored for new business ideas

Three BIOE students were recently honored as part of the UW Business Plan Competition, the top student competition held by the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the UW’s Michael G. Foster School of Business. One of the students was part of a team that developed a system to facilitate water disinfection using solar energy, a project that won the competition’s $25,000 grand prize.