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The Faith-Fueled Brain Scanner

Biomedical engineer AudreyÌýBowdenÌýshines a light on her development of a headband that can measure brain activity through light with applications for mental health diagnoses and shares how her faith motivates her research.

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My science and faith are another way of translating between the physical and nonphysical world and bringing those two concepts together.

Audrey Bowden Audrey Bowden
Associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering
and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow

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  • Meet Audrey Bowden

    Audrey Bowden

    Associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty FellowÌý

    Raised in Nashville, Audrey is a biomedical engineer working in biomedical optics, microfluidics and point-of-care diagnostics. She is focused on development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing technologies for rural and global health applications in addition to light-based tools that can be used to provide early detection, diagnosis and therapy for disease. She has won the Air Force Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, the Hellman Faculty Scholars Award and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award.

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    Seth Crawford is a graduate research assistant in the biomedical optics lab. He was on the team that developed the MRI headband and is an expert in 3D printing. He joined ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ as a Ph.D. student in 2021.

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