UW-Madison Department of Biomedical Engineering

10/14/2026

Cheers to our BME scholarship recipients! 🎉 We were honored to celebrate alongside the faculty, family, and friends who joined us in recognizing these outstanding students. Congratulations on your hard work and achievements, and thank you to everyone who helps make these opportunities possible.

10/01/2026

A huge congratulations to BME students Noah Kalthoff and Ruffin Bryant, along with Computer Science and Data Science student Aadya Ganjigunta, on earning 3rd place and the Best Methodology Report award at the 2026 EndoVis SurgVU Challenge! 🎉

Working with Assistant Professor Dhananjay Bhaskar and UW Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Assistant Professor Tuo Peter Li, the OpScribe-AI team developed an AI system that answers questions about surgical videos. The international challenge attracted 78 participants from 12 countries.

Noah and Ruffin began working with Prof. Bhaskar and Prof. Li through a BME Design project last year. That collaboration led to the founding of OpScribe-AI (https://opscribe-ai.com/), a company developing AI solutions for surgical video analysis.

We’re proud to see our students turn their BME design experience into a growing venture and earn international recognition for their work!

UW-Madison College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

09/24/2026

Our undergraduate program has officially been named #12 among public universities nationwide by U.S. News and World Report . We're proud of our students, faculty, and researchers who are shaping the future of healthcare.

09/18/2026

In our latest Focus on New Faculty feature, meet Dr. Jonathan Soucy, assistant professor of BME and founder of the Neural Engineering for Restoring Vision (NERV) Lab.

Soucy's research combines stem cell engineering, tissue engineering, and neuroengineering to explore how retinal cells reconnect with the brain. We're excited to see the impact of his work unfold!

Welcome to Wisconsin, Dr. Soucy! Give him a Badger welcome in the comments below. 👇

As a young child in Lewiston, Maine, Jonathan Soucy squinted and stumbled until, at age 4, doctors belatedly diagnosed him with a congenital cataract in his left eye. While he underwent surgery shortly thereafter to...

09/11/2026

What better way to end the week than with a sweet treat and some BME giveaways.
 
Our new chair, Shawn Gomez, along with faculty and staff, spent the afternoon welcoming and reconnecting BME students for the new academic year.

09/09/2026

Please join us for snacks, department giveaways and some time to mingle with other students, faculty and staff this Friday!

Date: Friday, Sept. 11
Time: 2 - 4 pm (come and go during this window)
Location: ECB Atrium

09/02/2026

Welcome to fall semester. It’s great to see all the students back in ECB.

08/27/2026

We’re so excited to welcome our new grad students at orientation.

08/26/2026

Congratulations to our faculty member who received promotions and tenure!
⭐️Megan McClean was promoted from associate professor to full professor.
⭐️Colleen Witzenburg was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor, with tenure.
⭐️Filiz Yesilköy was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor, with tenure.

08/26/2026

We sat down with our new chair, Professor Shawn Gomez, to discuss what excites him about our department, what drives his passion for cross-disciplinary research, and how we will continue advancing innovation at the intersection of engineering and healthcare.

Learn a little bit about Shawn Gomez, what excites him about the de...