Photo of 5 Travel Award recipients standing in the Clark Center courtyard.

The Bio-X Travel Awards Program gives graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills, to travel and network with like-minded peers, and to learn new ideas that could potentially and positively affect their research.

Search travel awardees View the 2019 Travel Awards brochure

Nicholas Rommelfanger - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Applied Physics
Faculty Advisor: Guosong Hong
Talk Title: Seeing the sound: novel optical and ultrasonic methods for neuromodulation
Event: 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference

Ariel Hannum - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Ennis
Talk Title: Diffusion Direction Orientation Considerations for Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Event: Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Scientific Sessions 2023

Grace Zhong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2023

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Thermotaxis in an apolar, non-neuronal animal
Event: SICB 2023

Pingyu Wang - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Nicholas Melosh
Talk Title: Direct-print 3D electrodes for high-resolution and high-multiplexity neural interfaces
Event: 2022 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Rusiou Hsu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Hongjie Dai
Talk Title: Wireless charging-mediated angiogenesis and nerve repair by adaptable microporous hydrogels from conductive building blocks
Event: 2022 Joint Symposium of the Society For Biomaterials (SFB) and the Japanese Society for Biomaterials (JSB) - Rusiou was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award of Society for Biomaterials 2022.

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Philaphon Sayavong - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Yi Cui
Talk Title: Dissolution of the solid electrolyte interphase and its effects on lithium metal anode cyclability
Event: 2022 MRS Fall Meeting

Sang Cheol Kim - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Yi Cui
Talk Title: Probing solvation thermodynamics of electrolytes through potentiometric methods
Event: Electrochemical Society (ECS) 242nd Meeting

Yu Zheng - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Dynamics of bacterial recombination in the human gut microbiome
Event: Molecular design approach towards elastic and multifunctional polymer electronics - Yu was selected as a finalist for the Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science.

Weilai Yu - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Revealing the dynamics of solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) at li metal anode
Event: AICHE Annual Meeting 2022

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Myungheon Chin - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2022

Home Department: Electrical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Deep learning-based limited angle tomography for a 1-millimeter resolution dual-panel clinical PET system
Event: 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference - Myungheon received an IEEE MIC trainee grant for the event.

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