Dr. Smith, along with Dr. Thomas Anthony and Mr. Je’gil Dugger, motivated and inspired Engineering, Science, and Business students as panelists at the Tech x Engineering x Entrepreneurship mixer on Thursday, Sept 28.
Laycee Cordell, a senior BME student in the NSPM Lab, was one of six BME students to receive the Dr. Jack Lemons Endowed Scholarship in Biomedical Engineering. The award was open to all undergraduate and graduate biomedical students. Congratulations, Laycee!
Two national-level awards were granted to Dr. Smith (PI) and the NSPM Lab in collaboration with Dr. Paul Ferrari (Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital), Ismail Mohamed (UAB Children’s), Larry Ver Hoef (UAB Neurology), and Benjamin Cox (UAB Neurology). The AES Junior Investigator Award funds work toward localizing seizures with neural resonance and triggering native seizures using dynamical network models. The CURE Epilepsy Taking Flight Award funds virtual stimulation in interictal EEG and MEG networks to localize regions of high cortical excitability. With these two awards, and a supplemental pilot award from UAB’s Consortium for Neuroengineering and Brain Computer Interface, we hope to gather sufficient preliminary data to submit R-level NIH and NSF grants next year. So proud of this team!
Dr. Smith teaches a middle school student all about the brain and epilepsy! Check out the 30-min episode on Alabama Public Television today!
Research from the NSPM Lab was featured in the UAB e-Reporter, the UAB News, ABC 33/40, and WVTM13.
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The NSPM held its first lab meeting on Monday, Jan 9! Lab meetings in the NSPM are designed to give space for students to present their work for the week, discuss relevant papers, and hear from guest speakers. If you’re interested in sitting in on our lab meetings, email Dr. Smith! (rjsmith2@uab.edu)
Dr. Smith presented a project at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the American Epilepsy Society (AES) conferences in November and December, respectively. We showed that regions of the brain associated with seizure onset displayed significantly higher levels of cortical excitability when virtually stimulated in a model of the epileptic brain. These findings indicate that important clinical information that is typically gained from electrical stimulation of the brain can be drawn from a simple model built from resting-state data.
The ACM and Society for Women Engineers (SWE) hosted a Technology and Business Mixer. Dr. Smith and other professors and Deans were invited to give welcome speeches at the event.
Dr. Smith discusses her research and gives career advice to undergraduate students in the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Dr. Smith presented her work from Johns Hopkins University that uses dynamical network models to localize seizure onset regions in epilepsy patients.
