News
Pre-2019 Archive
December 2012
- Our work was covered by Hoezit! a kids magazine published in South Africa.
November 2012
- The Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet Show crew was in our lab.
- A TV crew from Science Channel visited us for the show “This Changes Everything”.
October 2012
- iBionicS had demonstrations during the NCSU Open House.
- iBionicS Lab had a demonstration during the annual symposium of The Science House’s Imhotep Academy. Imhotep Academy introduces under-represented students (African-Americans Hispanic, Native Americans, Women) sixth through eighth grades to the rigorous and exciting worlds of STEM fields.
- Our work was covered by newspapers HAARETZ in Israel, El Mundo in Spain, Brazilian science magazine Ciencia Hoje, Brazilian Magazine Isto E, French biotechnology magazine Biofutur, French science magazines La Recherche and Science et Vie, Canadian TV channel Société Radio-Canada and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
- Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed by Weather Channel, Voice of Russia Radio in Washington, DC, Engineering and Technology Magazine in United Kingdom.
- Weather Channel: link.
- Our work was also in Scholastic’s Science World magazine (classroom magazine for grades 6 – 10), Junior Scholastic Magazine for middle school teachers and Korean “Honor student Science” magazine Chunjae.
- The Reuters interview was broadcasted by several major TV news channels all around the world including (Italy, Germany, UK, Australia, Turkey, Japan, Russia, France etc.)
September 2012
- We attended and presented during the BugFest organized by the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
- We were visited by a TV crew from RTR (Russian Television & Radio) TV. RTR is first-rate news source in the region since more than 120 million Russian speaking viewers across Russia, Baltic countries, Israel and North America. Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed by Channel 10 in San Diego.
- We were visited by a TV crew from Reuters and CNN News’ Start Small Think Big show.
- We were visited by a TV crew from America Now.
- Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed by CTV of Canada: link.
- Dr. Bozkurt was interviewed by Blu Radio, and W Radio of Colombia, National Geographic Magazine, Laos Angeles Times and the Economist.
- We were on the Economist: link.
- Scientific American: link.
- Reuters: link Video.
- CNN: Wolf Blitzer Show: link.
- CNN: News: link.
- Discovery Channel: link.
- Huffington Post: link.
- National Geographic: link.
- NBC News: link.
- ABC News: link.
- Los Angeles Times: link.
- Nature: link.
- News and Observer: link.
- Fox News: link.
- Channel One News: link.
- UberGizmo: link.
- Journal of Emergency Medical Services: link.
- Emergency Medical Services: link.
- Prison Planet: link.
- Natural News: link.
- Digital Journal: link.
- LiveScience: link.
- The Register: link.
- Gizmodo: link.
- Engadget: link.
- Gizmag: link.
- Digital Journal: link.
- Examiner: link.
- Topix: link.
August 2012
- Rita and Tahmid presented at IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference in San Diego, CA. link.
June 2012
- Rita presented a poster at Neural Interfaces Conference 2012 in Salt Lake City, UT. link.
May 2012
- Rita was selected as one of five students to receive Diversity Travel Award for the Neural Interfaces Conference 2012. link.
March 2012
- Dr. Bozkurt participated in a talkback with the cast of East Chapel Hill High School play “Universal Robots”
February 2012
- iBionicS Lab and Bozkurt research group was interviewed by NRC Handelsblad, one of the most circulated newspapers in the Netherlands.
Link to the digital article
Link to the PDF of the coverage
Link to the NRC Handelsblad blog
January 2012
- Dr. Bozkurt presented a paper and chaired a session at IEEE Topical Conference on Biomedical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS) in Santa Clara, CA.
www.radiowirelessweek.org/biowireless/
December 2011
- iBionics Lab launches new website.
All the below websites are affiliated with our website:
www.insectcyborgs.com, www.ibionics.org, www.alperbozkurt.info - Dr. Bozkurt was hosted by NPR’s State of the Things show.
wunc.org/tsot/archive/Remote__Control__Bugs.mp3/view
November 2011
- Dr. Bozkurt presented at the UNC BME Coulter Seminar Series.
September 2011
- Our new paper is published in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical.
August 2011
- iBionicS Lab officially started its operation in EB-2 2038 and 3036 at NCSU.
- Fabian, Rita and Jose joined iBionicS Lab.
- Our new paper is published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
- Dr. Bozkurt presented at IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference in Boston,MA.