Big congratulations to our cubicles, Tiffany Chan and Tate Chatfield! The work titled "Initial investigation of student-faculty micro-interactions on students’ sense of belonging through organized student-faculty lunches" has been accepted by 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting. Cube³ will be presenting our poster at 3:30-4:30pm on Friday, 10/13, in Seattle, WA. If you will be going to BMES 2023, please stop by and check us out!

This project belongs to the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-branch of Cube³. This project intends to investigate the effect of informal student-faculty interactions on students' community building. We will be presenting our results from our first set of activities, three student-faculty lunches conducted in Spring 2023. A total of 12 undergraduate students and 3 faculties were invited to these lunches. These lunches were sponsored by the BME Health, Equity, and Wellness (HEW) Committee. Surveys have shown that these casual lunches had long-lasting positive impact on students' sense of belonging and clarity of career goals.

Cube³ will be organizing more community building activities with the BME HEW committee in Fall 2023 and beyond, including student-faculty lunches, board game nights, mental health posters, and the open-house. If you are a BME student reading this article, we look forward to seeing you in one of our future events!