BME graduate student Gabriela Torres won first place in the Student Paper Competition during July’s IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Symposium (EMBS) held in JeJu, Korea! The conference theme, “Smarter Technology for a Healthier World,” was designed to allow for diverse topics of cutting-edge research in biomedical engineering, healthcare technology R&D, translational clinical research, technology transfer and entrepreneurship, and biomedical engineering education. Gabriela competed against 14 other high-achieving students to take home the top prize for her paper, Acceleration (VoA) for Noninvasive Characterization of Human Carotid Plaques in Vivo. Congratulations, Gabriela!