Thank you to our generous sponsors of the 5th Annual BME Research Day!
Founded in 1898 by Charles and Theophil Gebauer, Gebauer Company (originally Gebauer Chemical Company) has a history of honesty, integrity and premium quality products to help healthcare professionals improve the patient experience. Their family-owned business’s mission: “With HONESTY and INTEGRITY, we shall provide effective products to improve our customers’ quality of life while responsibly promoting profit, stability, and growth for our business, employees, shareholders, and our community.”The Gebauer Company is an internationally recognized medical device manufacturer dedicated to providing Patient Comfort Solutions™ to the healthcare industry through the development and production of affordable, easy-to-use medical devices. The Gebauer Company core products include Gebauer’s Ethyl Chloride®, Gebauer’s Pain Ease®, Gebauer’s Spray and Stretch®, Gebauer’s Instant Ice®, and Cryo Professional. The Gebauer Company has a 58,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility in Cleveland, Ohio with GMP compliant manufacturing, environmentally controlled warehousing, and laboratory capabilities.
Dr. Andrew Ditto, Director of R&D and Chief Research Scientist at Gebauer Company and alumnus of the University of Akron, will give a presentation ahead of this year’s keynote address. The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Akron thanks Gebauer Company for their continued support and generous sponsorship of BME Research Day.
The Margaret F. Donovan Endowment
An educator by profession, Margaret F. Donovan believes that education is the pathway to betterment and success. A staunch advocate for recognizing hard work, combined with her unique window into the challenges women in the engineering field face, Mrs. Donovan has taken decisive action to promote gender equity in engineering education and careers in the U.S.
As one of five daughters from a family of modest means, Mrs. Donovan came to the early understanding that education was often the difference between those who succeeded and those who faced continual hardship. In her own life, she was the first member of her family to complete a college education.
Following graduation, Mrs. Donovan taught for three years before having children, then periodically for a total of 10 years in teaching and counseling. Together with her husband, the late Robert E. Donovan, she continued to make education a priority in raising her children. Following Mr. Donovan’s death in 1996 and reflecting the family’s long held faith in the power of education, she established The Robert E. Donovan Scholarship Fund (Donovan Scholarship) at The University of Akron.
The Margaret F. Donovan Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the BME Research Day Committee, Dr. Buket Barkana, will give a presentation ahead of this year’s keynote address. The Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Akron thanks the Margaret F. Donovan Endowment for its generous support of BME Research Day.