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)