How is UK different from other biomedical engineering programs?
Close-knit community: We foster a strong sense of community amongst our graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff. Students are an integral and important part of the Center and are encouraged to be active, contributing members of our scientific community. We encourage a friendly and collegial scholarly community, in which people with diverse backgrounds can flourish. In addition to classroom and research activities, periodic social activities, such as fall and spring picnics and a winter holiday party, further strengthen relationships that can last a lifetime. Interdisciplinary environment: Although situated in its own building, it is ideally physically between the Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine, and Pharmacy and the Chandler Medical Center. The CBME has close ties to faculty in programs within each of these units. These interactions are beneficial to BME students, as they have the opportunity to learn from faculty in each of these rela