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NEW JOURNAL - BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION!

Teaching biomedical engineering using hybrid and online instruction during the pandemic can be challenging. With the launch of the journal Biomedical Engineering Education and its first Special Issue, some great teaching tips are available to you here. More than 25 papers cover a range of educational topics including:

  • Teaching design when students cannot access a makerspace
  • How to build a welcoming and engaging environment with your students online
  • Practical alternatives to exams
  • Novel modifications for circuits and cell culture laboratories

Biomedical Engineering Education is now accepting all article types, including Research, Innovation, Teaching Tips, Perspectives, and Review articles


Ann Saterbak, Editor-in-Chief, 
Biomedical Engineering Education
Duke University

Congratulations to the New 2026 Board Members

Congratulations to the New 2026 Board Members

A tight election for Board seats among an impressive slate of candidates vying for six volunteer leadership positions yielded the following results....

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Apply Today: IFER Ethical Research Poster Awards

Apply Today: IFER Ethical Research Poster Awards

BMES and the International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER) are offering an opportunity for for high school and undergraduate students...

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Modeling Cancer, Mentoring People: How Stacey Finley Defines Mid-Career Impact

Modeling Cancer, Mentoring People: How Stacey Finley Defines Mid-Career Impact

For Stacey Finley, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Quantitative & Computational Biology and the inaugural holder of the Nicole A. and...

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CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

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CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Biomedical Engineering Education is a new BMES journal to be published by Springer. To serve the BMES educational community during the COVID-19...

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Two New Editors-in-Chief Named for BMES Journals

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Two New Editors-in-Chief Named for BMES Journals

Two new Editors-in-Chief were selected for two prestigious Society journals: Keefe Manning, was named the new Editor-in-Chief of the Cardiovascular...

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Call for Candidates: Seeking Two Editors-in-Chief for BMES Journals

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Call for Candidates: Seeking Two Editors-in-Chief for BMES Journals

Open Editor-in-Chief Positions for BMES Journals: Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE)

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