23. Internship Spotlight: Cristina Quintero

Today’s podcast is the first in a series showcasing the various extracurricular organizations of the biomedical engineering department. In this part, you’ll hear from Anokhi Patel from bmedSAB, Abhinaya Uthayukumar from the Pioneer, and Jason Weis from the Learning Commons. There will be two more parts coming out soon, so look out for those! All three of these organizations are currently recruiting, so if any of them interest you, check out the applications! bmedSAB: Applications were sent out via email to all BME undergrads on March 29! Deadline is April 12! Pioneer: Apply at https://goo.gl/forms/vp16KYfyOvlbn3993 and send samples to [email protected]! Deadline is April 7! Learning Commons: Apply at https://goo.gl/forms/w1Lmi2OxOIMeYXiH3! Rolling applications year-round! 

What's the Buzz is back for Spring 2017! Today, host Jasmine Pillarisetti talks with Charles Lankau, a BME student who participated in last summer's CREATE-X course (aka Startup Summer). Listen to learn more about his team's product, what the experience was like, and how they achieved success (including how they won the demo competition!).  If you are interested in pursuing your own startup, the application deadline for this summer's Startup Launch is March 17! Apply here: http://startupsummer.gatech.edu/apply/  And as always, if you are interested in making your own podcasts for the BME Learning Commons, contact Jasmine at [email protected]! 

In this episode of What's the Buzz, host Jasmine Pillarisetti talks with Sammi Hudock, the first-place winner of the Fall 2016 BME Flash Fiction Contest. This semester's prompt was "What will life as a Georgia Tech student be like in the year 2050?". Listen to Sammi read her winning story titled "Gray", learn how she came up with the idea, and hear what she thinks higher education will be like in 2050.  Read "Gray" here: http://pwp.gatech.edu/bmeac/gray/ 

Pioneer Senior Writer Brandon Holt talks with Dr. Manu Platt about graduate school in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech, our unique partnership with Emory University's medical school, and the sun and the sky.

Jasmine Pillarisetti talks with 4th-year BME Cristina Quintero about her internship at Stryker this past summer and how to land your dream internship at the career fair! 

The BME Culture Happy Hour host, Candice Cheung, chats with Greta Shallenberger and Abhinaya Uthayakumar about how to deal with registration, including providing answers to such vexing questions as 1) what should you do before registration, 2) is there software that can help, and 3) what if yo don't get a class in Phase 1?  

Walt Baxter talks about BME at Georgia Tech, value-based healthcare, and the future of biomedicine.  BME Culture Happy Hour star Candice Cheung and her fellow BME students Dhara Patel, Malvika Sanghvi, and Abhinaya Uthayakumar are the hosts.  

The BME Culture Happy Hour crew, co-hosts Dr. Joe Le Doux and Candice Cheung, chat with Matthew Devlin and Cassidy Wang about the BME department's machine shop.  They encourage you to embrace your creative side and turn your ideas into reality by visiting the machine shop and joining the maker movement.

The BME Culture Happy Hour crew, co-hosts Dr. Joe Le Doux and Candice Cheung, with special co-host Karisma Gupta (Chair, BMED SAB), chat with Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda, the chair of Georgia Tech's BME department.  Ravi talks about how he became a BME, gives advice to current Georgia Tech BMEs, and shares some of his aspirations for Duke, where he will soon be serving as Dean of Engineering.

The BME Culture Happy Hour crew, co-hosts Dr. Joe Le Doux and Candice Cheung, chat with Kelly Pesson and Abhinaya Uthayakumar about how to get involved as a BME major at Georgia Tech.