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Center FOR Biomechanical &
Rehabilitation EngineerinG
CBRE

Creator & Director: Lara Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

IN THE NEWS (Click on links below):

NSF recognizes 3 scientists with the Alan T. Waterman Award

Dr. Lara A. Thompson is the first principal investigator faculty member of an HBCU to receive the NSF’s prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award

Lara A. Thompson is the first PI and faculty member of an HBCU to receive the NSF’s Alan T. Waterman Award

Making American History Now: Featured panelist for National Science Foundation (NSF) Distinguished Lecture on HBCUs (2021)

Presented to Congress: Featured speaker for National Science Foundation (NSF) Hill Event (2020)

$5.4M National Institutes of Health C06 grant: Specialized Technological center for Assistive Rehabilitation (STAR) Research (2020)

$1.9M National Institutes of Health, National Institutes on Aging MSTEM grant

UDC Biomedical Engineering program becomes only ABET-accredited program at HBCU

NASA Fellowship Awarded: Investigating human mobility - related attributes while robed in an EVA Spacesuit

2020 BEYA TechTalks Featured Speaker: “Falls and aging: nexgen biomedical solutions”

Harvard Otolaryngology magazine (2019, pg. 21): “Finding the right balance between research and medicine”

NSF Recognizes Three University Scientists With The $1 Million Alan T. Waterman Award

2019 BEYA STEM Innovator Award National Recognition

NSF Science Nation "Research immerses HBCU undergrads in biomedical engineering"

STEM Central, "Who is ‘Minding the Gap’ in Undergraduate Engineering Education?"

UDC Scholar Lara Thompson receives Innovation Award

HBCU Research magazine, "Next Generation Scientist: Making Great Strides"

UDC Forum: Biomedical Engineering Program

Diverse Issue of Higher Education Emerging Scholar 2017

"A UDC professor is training the next generation of biomedical engineers"

Washington Post article mention, "College junior at 17 was once dubbed ‘sweet, but not very smart’ "

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