February 19, 2016

Alper Bozkurt, alumnus in BIOMED (MS '04), assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, received a $500K 5-year Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the project titled "Bio-electro-photonic Microsystem Interfaces for Small Animals." Known as the NSF CAREER Award, it is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young faculty in science and engineering. The NSF's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems is supporting Dr. Bozkurt's research for this project.