BME Alum Wins Outstanding Young Alumni Volunteer Award

At Homecoming 2023, biomedical engineering alum Ryan Gapp (14'), won the Outstanding Young Alumni Volunteer Award. 

Gapp is a quality engineer with W. L. Gore & Associates and lives in Flagstaff. He grew up in Tucson and was one of the first graduates of the B.S. in biomedical engineering program. As a student, Ryan was part of Engineering Ambassadors and was a research associate at the Arizona Center on Aging.

Throughout his career at Gore, he has worked on many different medical devices that improve cardiovascular health care. Gapp has volunteered as the UA outreach champion/liaison from Gore since 2018. He leads a “core team” of other Wildcats at Gore who also enjoy volunteering for Engineering events or helping advocate for philanthropic support for the UA.

Gapp recently served on the College of Engineering search committee to hire the new biomedical engineering department head, Mario Romero-Ortega.