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Villanueva, Idalis

Villanueva, Idalis

Lecturer
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
3234 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Colorado—Boulder, 2009

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Center for Teaching Excellence Learning Enhancement Mini-Grant, University of Maryland College Park, May 2012
  • Invited Panel Speaker, NIH Career Symposium, May 2012
  • Invited Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation- 2011-present
  • SACNAS Leadership Institute Award Recipient and Participant- July 2010
  • Invited Grant Reviewer, United Negro College Funds Special Programs- February 2010 to March 2010
  • NIH IMSD Trainee Award- January 2009 to May 2009
  • Invited Guest Speaker for Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium External Advisory Board, University of Humacao, Puerto Rico, January 2008
  • U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need (GAANN)- July 2006 to December 2008
  • NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship- July 2005 to October 2008
  • Invited Guest Speaker for NASA STS-116 space shuttle launch in Kennedy Space Center, Florida- December 2006
  • Colorado Diversity Initiative Graduate Student Travel Grant- December 2006, 2007, and March 2008
  • Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Travel Grant- July 2007
  • Mini NASA Research Award- June 2006 to August 2006
  • Puerto Rico NASA Space Grant for Research in Engineering and Science- August 2003 to May 2004

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • ASEE
  • AICHE
  • BMES

  • BIOE 120 (Biology for Engineers)
  • BIOE 121 (Biology for Engineers Laboratory)
  • BIOE 411/611 and ENCH 468T/648T  (Tissue Engineering)

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