{"538981":{"#nid":"538981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"BioE Day Builds Community","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBioE Day, held May 12 at the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, once again lived up to its promise as a community-building event. And this time there was an added bonus: an impromptu juggling exhibition, which seems appropriate, given the interdisciplinary, multi-tasking (and sometimes fast-paced) nature of life in the BioEngineering graduate program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBioE Day was designed specifically to unify the graduate program\u2019s students and faculty, who come from many different home schools and are immersed in a wide range of research topics. The event incorporates research, competitions, awards, fellowship, games, and a keynote address by Bob Nerem, founding director of the Petit Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cI\u2019m thrilled the students recommended Bob,\u201d said Andr\u00e9s Garc\u00eda, BioE faculty advisor. \u201cHe\u2019s my friend and mentor. He\u2019s \u2018Uncle Bob.\u2019\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ENerem delivered his address, entitled, \u201cBioengineering: Building a New Discipline, a Personal\u0026nbsp;Journey.\u201d He talked about living in Norway as a child and about his career. Nerem began in aeronautical engineering and gravitated toward bioengineering after NASA recruited him to help the organization better understand how launch and re-entry from orbit affects the human body. Since then, he\u2019s been a leading researcher in bioengineering for more than 40 years, focusing primarily on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIf you don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going, you may end up somewhere else,\u201d Nerem said, offering a suitable theme for his career, borrowed from the wisdom of Yogi Berra.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EFollowing Nerem\u2019s address and lunch, the students engaged in a poster competition and a rapid-fire presentation competition, which was won by Joshua Hooks and Tom Bongiorno, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWinners of the 2016 BioE Outstanding Paper award (grad student Jordan Ciciliano) and Outstanding Advisor award (Krishnendu Roy, professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering) made research presentations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHooks and Bongiorno were then given their awards, and Bongiorno was named winner of the Chris Ruffin Student Leadership Award, which recognizes exemplary leadership and community involvement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBioE Day was supposed to end with a cookout and games in courtyard, but rain pushed the fun inside, where a couple of cornhole games ensued, but not before the bean bags were co-opted by several members of the staff, faculty and student body, who demonstrated heretofore unseen juggling skills and may have laid the groundwork for a new competition at the next BioE Day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECONTACT:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jerry.grillo@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJerry Grillo\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications Officer II\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. 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