Effective 3/14, our discount ski pass program is open for the 2024-2025 season! We are an official partner of the Ikon Pass College Club Program. This partnership allows individuals to receive discount Ikon season ski passes. Our 2024-2025 season passes are now on sale. Ikon Pass – $879 Ikon Base Plus Pass – $839 Ikon…
Congratulations to Abby Citterman for being awarded the Parent Scholarship at the University of Utah! This prestigious award is giving to top undergraduate researchers who have already received two undergraduate research fellowships. The Parent Fund is sustained by parents and supports student-centered programs and initiatives. The Parent Fund plays an integral role in the University…
Caleb Thomson, a second-year PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering department, was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This highly prestigious fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support…
Health care is changing, and University of Utah Health is leading the way—thanks to our many donors. Ongoing support and partnerships from the University of Utah Health Partners enabled us to extend the highest quality of care to thousands of Utahns, train the next generation of providers, and make groundbreaking discoveries. As a large academic medical…
Congratulations to Abby Citterman for being inducted into the Beehive Honor Society! The Beehive Honor Society (BHS) was founded at the University of Utah in 1913 for the purpose of honoring graduating seniors who have demonstrated leadership, scholarship, and service to the university and the community. On average, just one in 1,000 students at the…
Dr. George’s recent Q&A session with The Superposition is worth the read! Dr. George touches on his ongoing research, patient needs, the motivation behind the “LUKE Arm”, and current trends in AI and brain-computer interfaces. This Q&A session has it all: one-shot learning, the metaverse, brain-computer interfaces curing obesity, and robot bodies storing our memories.…
Today we had six poster presentations and one podium presentation at the Annual Utah Biomedical Engineering Conference! We had presentations from: Marshall Trout (FIRST-PLACE PODIUM PRESENTATION!): Improved Mirror-Therapy: Reanimation of Fine Motor Function Using Low-Cost Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Driven by Synchronized Bilateral Movements Caleb Thomson (FIRST-PLACE POSTER PRESENTATION!): Proportional Electromyographic Control of a Bionic…
Congratulations to graduate students Marshall Trout and Caleb Thomson for accepting internship offers at Ripple Neuro this summer! Ripple is a leading manufacturer of electrophysiology equipment. They develop implanted electronics, high-channel-count stimulation and recording systems, and custom software for analyzing electrophysiological data. Ripple’s technology is heavily used in the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab and other labs…
“No this isn’t some Uncanny Valley; the human nervous system responds to electrical signals from machines.” – Mind Matters News. The research from the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab was recently highlighted in Mind Matters News alongside similar ongoing work from MIT. The article highlights previous work from Dr. George (Univ Utah) and Dr. Hurr (MIT) featured…
Dr. George was recently featured the “Neuroscience Faculty Spotlight” for his lab’s interdisciplinary neuroscience research at the University of Utah. The Neuroscience Initiative at University of Utah Health represents a commitment, by the University of Utah and the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences office, to unify basic, translational, and clinical research efforts towards a better…