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Here's what it's like to be a graduate student in BME at UVA

There's always something happening

Charlottesville is home to festivals including the Virginia Film Festival, Cville Pride, Tom Tom Founders Festival, & the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival.
There are more than 30 wineries within a 30-mile radius of Charlottesville.
Local music venues bring in some big-name artists like Ariana Grande, P!nk, The Chainsmokers, Odesza, Lupe Fiasco, J. Cole, Taylor Swift, Florida Georgia Line, Justin Timberlake, Portugal the Man, and many more.

We're a short drive from …

Hiking in Shenandoah National Park (45 min)
Exploring Richmond (45 min)
Wintergreen Ski Resort (40 min)
Museum Hopping in Washington DC (2 hours)
Relaxing at Virginia Beach (3 hours)

There is so much incredible hiking, biking and running in and around Charlottesville.
BMEs' representing at Josephine's Village 5K.
Lab mates often hang out together outside of lab! Here is the Price Lab's skiing and snowboarding trip
Post hike lunch at Blue Mountain Brewery.
We love watching the sunset over Cville from Carter's Mountain in the summer.
Happy Hour on the Lawn.

GBMES trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.
Inspiring future biomedical engineers at KidVention.
Supporting fellow students at their acapella concert.
GBMES Bake Sale fundraiser for a local charity.
A visit from Cavman at UVa Basketball in the JPJ Arena.
There are great concerts right here in Charlottesville often held On Grounds.

Here are a few of the clubs and activities we're involved in...

The whole department at the Annual Tug of War.
The Price Lab designed custom jersies for Tug of War.
The M3 lab won the 2019 gringerbread house competition for "Operation Game."
First years at Cookie Hour -- cookies and coffee, every Wednesday at 3p.
Coming late to Cookie Hour and discovering there are still cookies.
Happy Halloween from UVA BME.

Sightseeing while at an international conference in Calgary
UVA BME representing at the BMES Annual Conference
Dr. Kris Rawls defending his PhD dissertation in the Rotunda.
Out to dinner with fellow BMEs.

We take our work to all corners of the world!

Recently students attended conferences in Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Hawaii, Paris, Dublin, Singapore, Berlin, Castiglione del Lago, and many more!
Many students do a 2-3 month internship or externship while they are graduate students. Some of the places they go are Philadelphia, Bethesda, Irvine, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Research Triangle Park, Valencia (Spain), and Gothenburg (Sweden).

Where a UVA BME PhD takes you after graduation

Post Doc in Industry - AstraZeneca (Washington DC)
Post Doc in Academia - UC San Diego, Harvard, Yale, Stanford
Product Development - Medtronic (Minneapolis)
Director of Clinical R&D - Rivanna Medical (Charlottesville)
Cell Culture Process Development - Genentech (San Francisco)
Research Scientist - Luna Innovations (Charlottesville)
Faculty - UNC-Chapel Hill/NC State, U. Michigan, U. Florida, U. Washington, Messiah College, and many more

Living in Cville

Most students live within a 10-15 minute walk from MR5, the main BME building. With free access to both UVA and Charlottesville City buses, it is easy to get around town to visit the shops on the Downtown mall or the restaurants in Belmont.

The Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society (GBMES)

Message UVA GBMES on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram

Recruitment Co-Chair: Allie McCrady (M3 Lab) anm9xd@virginia.edu / Twitter @mccrady_allison
Recruitment Co-Chair: Julie Leonard-Duke (Peirce-Cottler Lab) jl9pxc@virgina.edu / Twitter @Julie_LD42

Meet Our Students

We asked 14 biomedical engineering graduate students four questions. Here's what they had to say.

Why ’Hoos Love to Call Charlottesville Home

*"The cultural scene here is way bigger than something a town of this size should have."*