And there is catching up to do. Operating in this semi-state, BHE has done some great things in education and research.
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The relatively low impact is frustrating, given that CIT had an early jump on the field. D. program was started in 1965, one of the first academic biotech programs in the U.S. First program head was George Bugliarello, a CivE professor interested in blood flow. Diamond pulls out a proposal Bugliarello drafted shortly before Carnegie Tech and Mellon Institute merged to form Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. For a while, it almost did. An undergraduate minor in biomedical engineering was started, training grants for the grad students were obtained, professors were hired, and by the mid-1970s a booming program occupied the ground floor of Wean Hall.