September 28, 2024: GWBME participated in She Engineers at The Works Museum. For our activity, we extracted DNA from strawberries using common household items. The kids loved it, and so did many of the parents too! 

Volunteers help children extract and examine the DNA while parents watch.
Volunteers pose of a group picture at the booth with the experiment supplies.

April 11, 2024: GWBME was nominated for Tony Diggs Excellence Award in two categories: Excellence in Civic Engagement and Excellence in Community Building.

A projected slide shows a photo of several women behind a table. The text says that GWBME was nominated for Excellence in Civic Engagement and Excellence in Community Building.

March 22, 2024: A group of GWBME members volunteered as judges for the Minnesota State Science and Engineering Fair.

A group of people in business professional clothing stand in front of an outer space background.

October 7, 2023: GWBME participated in She Engineers at The Works Museum.  Activities included Q&A about research images and an activity prompting kids to share what they would study if they were biomedical engineers.

A group of women sit behind a table with a tablecloth that reads "Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota"

 

A poster of the human body covered in sticky notes

August 12, 2023: GWBME members hosted a booth at the Midtown Market Farmer's Market in St. Paul.

A group of women at a farmer's market booth about biomedical engineering

April 20, 2023: Sandra S. presents her research at the GWBME Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course.

Sandra stands in front of her presentation during the GWBME Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course.

February 16, 2022: Microscopy Lunch 'n Learn with Zeiss Microscopy 

A group eats lunch while watching a presentation on microscopy from Zeiss

December 7, 2022: Graham Cracker House Decorating at the December Brown Bag Lunch

A decorated graham cracker house

October 22, 2022: Booth at Midtown Market Farmer's Market

GWBME members volunteer at the Midtown Market Farmer's Market