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Krishnan B. Chandran Graduate Student Travel Awards
The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering is proud to offer twelve $500 travel awards each year. Students working with both primary and secondary faculty are encouraged to apply by submitting an electronic Travel Award Application Form. To ensure awards are distributed to students across a variety of primary and secondary faculty labs, the following rules will apply:
- Primary faculty labs are eligible for two students to be awarded travel awards each year.
- Secondary faculty labs are eligible for one student to be awarded a travel award each year.
- Students are eligible for one travel award a year.
*An exception to these rules may be granted for students attending the BMES Conference as presenters, which will be reviewed by the department's DEO and DGS on a case-by-case basis.
This award program is named after Professor Emeritus Krishnan B. Chandran, a faculty member in our department from 1984 to 2014. He served as departmental executive officer from 1998 to 2009 and as the Lowell G. Battershell Endowed Chair Professor from 2000 until his retirement in 2014. He mentored to graduation 19 doctoral and 19 master's degree students in his cardiovascular fluids laboratory. His former students have gone on to become deans, professors, doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators. He has published three books, including the first textbook on cardiovascular biomechanics, as well as135 archival papers in leading journals in the area of the fluid mechanics in the arteries and heart valve dynamics. He is internationally recognized for his research work in the area of cardiovascular fluid dynamics. Professor Emeritus Chandran lives with his wife, Vanaja, in North Carolina. The BME faculty is honored to name this award after our colleague who was instrumental in making the department what it is today.