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 pioneer@bme.gatech.edu! Deadline is April 7! Learning Commons: Apply at https://goo.gl/forms/w1Lmi2OxOIMeYXiH3! Rolling applications year-round! 

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27. Student Organization Spotlight - bmedSAB, Pioneer, & Learning Commons (Part 1/3)

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 jasminepill@gatech.edu! 

26. The Startup Experience - Interview with Charles Lankau

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/ 

25. Life as a GT Student in 2050 - Interview with Sammi Hudock

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.

24. On Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University

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! 

23. Internship Spotlight: Cristina Quintero

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?  

22. Tips for How to Approach Registration

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.  

21. Talking BME with Medtronic Senior Scientist Walt Baxter

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.

20. Embrace Your Creative Side in BME

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.

19. Talking BME with Ravi Bellamkonda

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. 

18. How to Get Involved in BME

Join Malvika as she chats with some of the Inventure Prize 2016 finalists: TEQ Charging, True Pahni & RoboGoalie. The Inventure Prize Finale will be held on March 16, Wednesday at the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech.

17. Inventure Prize 2016: The Other Finalists

The BME Culture Happy Hour crew, Dr. Joe Le Doux and Candice Cheung, co-host a very special session in which two first year BME students, Alan Grothues and Vaishnavi Andra, ask questions probably all freshman want answers to, to third-year BME Bharat Sanders and second-year BME Christopher Schenck.  These questions include "How is BME different from other engineering majors?", "What are some common misconceptions about BME?" and "Do you have any words of advice for first-year students?"

16. First Years Ask

Join Malvika as she talks to Team Wobble, a BME / ME team that is in the finals of this year's Inventure Prize Competition.  Malvika interviews team members Matthew Devlin and Garrett Wallace, both BME students, about their team's invention, which is a low cost perturbation platform to assist in evaluating the severity of head injuries sustained by athletes during games.  Teammates Ana Gomez (BME) and Hailey Brown (ME) did not participate in this interview.

15. Inventure Prize 2016: Wobble-ing to Victory!

Join Malvika as she talks to the Inventure prize preliminary teams about their project, inspiration for the project and their 'Inventure adventure'! This year's competition is the most popular one so far, with a record breaking 266 participants. Go Jackets! 

14. Inventure Prize 2016: The Preliminary Round

In this special episode of "What's the Buzz", co-hosts Candice Cheung and Dr. Joe Le Doux chat with Dr. Steve Potter.  Steve is a Georgia Tech biomedical engineer and neuroscientist who recently took a sabbatical to dive into the world of making.  He was so enthralled with what he experienced that he has decided to devote his full energies to the movement.  And he thinks you will feel the same way if you take the plunge and start making!

13. Inside the Maker Movement with Dr. Steve Potter

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