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Welcome to BMEGS, the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Students website!

Here you will find all the information a Biomedical Engineering (BME) graduate student at Northwestern University needs. Any member of the BME graduate student community can be in BMEGS- you are automatically in the group if you are and there are no membership fees or requirements! This web page is constantly under revision, so feel free to contact us with comments and suggestions to improve it.

If you are going to be a new graduate student in the Fall, we will be posting additional helpful information soon. In the meantime, if you have questions, you can contact anyone on the Students with Open Doors page, or more specifically, Matt Webber(m-webber) and Tony Jarc(a-jarc). All e-mails end with @northwestern.edu. Hope you're excited about coming to Northwestern!

If you are a prospective graduate student, this department site has more information about admissions and requirements for the MS and PhD programs.

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***NEW GRAD STUDENT INFO***

First, you may want to check out our FAQ and Resources pages for the most frequent questions about graduate life here at Northwestern. We are in the middle of overhauling these pages to give you the most current information and replacing dead links.

Need help choosing classes? Ask people on the Students with Open Doors list! Or take a look at the following:

• Course descriptions and syllabi
• BME 2006-2007 Course schedule
• Degree Requirements (which lists required courses and electives for each tract and has sample course plans for your time here)
• CAESAR- Course registration and Student Accounts site. Instructions for finding classes offerred: Click on "View the Quarterly Class Schedule" -> Click on "Search for Classes" -> Select "Fall 2007" (under Term) and Click on "Basic Search" -> Select the Department you wish to search for classes.

Required forms have also been posted in their entirety for all current MS and PhD graduate students. Enjoy!

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***NEW ALUMNI DATABASE***

Alumni networking/job contact information (Name, Degree from NU, Professional field, Employer, Job title, and Contact info) now available!. To get the contact information for alumni on this page, please e-mail Devjani (d-saha). If you are an alumnus and would like to be on this list, you can also e-mail Devjani with your information.

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***FELLOWSHIP INFORMATION***

Graduate Fellowships are available here. Also, check out the new Fellowships website created by the Northwestern Office of Fellowships for more detailed information.

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***MAILING LISTS***

Sign up for the bme_grads, BME_PHD, BME_MS and GSA (Graduate Student Association) listservs! Instructions:

For bme_grads listserv, send e-mail to Jennie (jlopez). If you are a current BME graduate student, you will be on the list already.

For BME_PHD, BME_MS, and GSA listservs (optional membership):

1. Send e-mail to listserv@listserv.it.northwestern.edu without any subject line.
2. Type the following command in the message: SUBSCRIBE BME-PHD Firstname Lastname, SUBSCRIBE BME-MS Firstname Lastname, or SUBSCRIBE GSA Firstname Lastname.
3. More detailed listserv instructions can be found here.

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***BMEGS OFFICERS***

Thank you for helping to keep BMEGS going for another year.

Here are the officers for 2006-2007:

• President - Dan Krainak
• VP Social Events - Yan Zhao, Kate Hamlington
• VP Student Affairs - Martha Cammarata
• VP Communications - Albert Chen
• VP Industry Relations - Nicole Mascheri
• VP Alumni Relations - Carrie Brubaker
• VP Seminar Series - Kvar Black
• VP Recruitment - Matt Webber, Tony Jarc
• VP Treasurer - Laura Miller
• MGLC reps - Brandon Tefft, Anand Jagannath

We would like to thank all of the officers who served in the past. If anyone would like to continue helping out in any way, please let Dan (krainak) know as several positions may be served by more than one person.

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***UPDATES***

• If you have anything you want to see on the BMEGS site (news, events, embarrassing pictures of faculty), please send them to Albert (alchen).
• Links have been updated on the homepage, because the department just updated their whole site. Other links on other pages on this website may also be down, so hopefully they will be fixed soon.
• We would like to update our Students with Open Doors page so that current and prospective students can contact people for general advice and questions. If you would like to be on this list, please send an e-mail to Albert Chen (alchen) with the following information: Name, Advisor, Research topic, Research tract, Year in Graduate school, Undergraduate institution, and Office location.

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

THE NEXT HAPPY HOURS...

Buy your textbooks for classes here! BMEGS gets money if you buy books using these links, at no extra cost to you, so please help support us! (Note: Classes listed may not be offerred, and books listed may not be correct editions or required, so please check your course schedule and syllabus first!) If there is a book you would like to see listed here, please e-mail Albert Chen (alchen).

BME 314: Models in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Fall, Wu)	BME 320: Biomedical Signals and Systems (Fall, Carroll)
BME 325: Introduction to Medical Imaging (Fall, Sahakian)	BME 395: Dynamics of Biological Systems (Fall, Tresch)
BME 401: Advanced Systems Physiology (Fall, Troy)	BME 495: Nano Materials in Medicine (Fall, Messersmith)
ME 390: Introduction to Dynamic Systems (Fall, Colgate)	STATS 330-1: Applied Statistics for Research I

BME Chair Matt Glucksberg...