BIOMEDICAL | Bagley College of Engineering - Part 9

Bagley College students earn NSF graduate fellowships

STARKVILLE, Miss. – The National Science Foundation has awarded three Bagley College graduates one of its most prestigious graduate fellowships. Janice Cunningham, Tim McGrath and Tiffany Heaster are among 2,000 of the more than 16,500 applicants chosen for the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Each will receive more than $30,000 annually for research and an…

June 9, 2015


BCoE students honored with graduate awards

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Bagley College of Engineering students earned recognition for academic excellence at an annual graduate student awards banquet. Mississippi State University’s Graduate Student Association Awards recognize students for their work in teaching, research and service. Of this year’s 30 award recipients, 12 honorees were engineering graduate students who earned hall of fame honors,…

May 5, 2015


Infant head-trauma research brings leading U.K. university to MSU

STARKVILLE, Miss. – After a year of planning, two European engineers visited Starkville to collaborate with Bagley College of Engineering researchers on experiments that could only be conducted in labs at Mississippi State University. Mike Jones, a senior lecturer, and Dan Darwall, a doctoral candidate, traveled to the Magnolia State from Cardiff University, Wales, to…

February 10, 2015


Warnock named associate dean for academic affairs

STARKVILLE, Miss. – A biomedical engineering researcher now leads the Bagley College of Engineering’s undergraduate and outreach-related activities. James Warnock was named associate dean for academic affairs at the beginning of the month. He has held the role in an interim capacity since Royce Bowden left the position last year to become engineering dean at…

December 22, 2014


Graduate students honored for research publications

STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Bagley College recognized 18 students at its Graduate Student Publications Awards Ceremony and Reception. Each semester, this event gives the BCoE an opportunity to encourage participation in high-quality research and reward graduate students’ accomplishments. “One of the main goals of research is to disseminate your findings. These awards recognize the efforts…

December 16, 2014


Additive Manufacturing Working Group

Chair and Coordinator – Matthew W. Priddy Vice Chair – Haley Doude Treasurer – Linkan Bian Mechanical Engineering Matthew W. Priddy Lei Chen Heejin Cho Tonya Stone Mark Horstemeyer Yucheng Liu Industrial and Systems Engineering Linkan Bian John Usher Wenmeng Tian Junfeng Ma Reuben Burch Agricultural and Biological Engineering Lauren Priddy Raj Prabhu Chemical Engineering…

October 24, 2014


Mississippi State student interns at genomic research institute

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Mississippi State senior Anna Florence was one of the standout applicants to be selected for the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology BioTrain internship program. Florence lives in Huntsville, Ala. but enjoys attending school in Starkville, Mississippi. “It’s a very neat community of people that are just nice and supportive of where you’re headed,”…

September 25, 2014


Liao named Fellow in industry-leading organization

STARKVILLE, Miss. — A Bagley College faculty member has earned recognition as one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular researchers. Jun Liao, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Heart Association. The rank of Fellow is the highest grade of membership in many professional organizations. Liao’s selection was…

June 18, 2014


Biological engineers earn NSF fellowships

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Two Bagley College students have earned national fellowships that will provide three years of research funding. Kevin Bennett and Shaquia Idlett are among 2,000 out of 14,000 applicants chosen for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Each will receive more than $30,000 annually for their research efforts, while an additional…

April 17, 2014


BCoE recognizes graduate student research

STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Bagley College of Engineering recognized 23 students’ research at the spring Graduate Research Poster Competition awards ceremony Wednesday. The newly established competition took place March 24 and 25 in the Mitchell Memorial Library Grisham Room. Seven master’s and 49 doctoral students participated in the program. Maurin Lopez Varilla, a doctoral student…

March 26, 2014