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A postdoctoral neuroscience researcher in Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering has been selected into the Hanna Gray Fellowship of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Weeks of planning, tireless dedication and inspired collaboration between Purdue Athletics and the College of Engineering will come to fruition this Saturday for the Wheel Rise Event in Holloway Gymnasium. This inaugural event, organized to promote and raise awareness for Paralympic sports, will take place from 2-5 p.m. prior to the football game against TCU at 7:30 p.m. Leony Boudreau, a junior at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and member of the Purdue women's basketball team, has been spearheading the effort.

Young Kim, associate professor with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, is helping to lay the groundwork for emerging global mobile health (mHealth) technologies. mHealth includes the use of mobile and wireless devices (cellphones, tablets, etc.) to improve point-of-care diagnosis, health outcomes, health care services and health research.

Hannah Cebull and Sarah Libring, graduate students at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, have received NSF Institute of International Education-Graduate International Research Experiences (IIE-GIRE) Scholarships. IIE-GIRE is a fellowship program that offers funding to doctoral engineering students to conduct innovative research abroad for three to five months and to expand ties between Purdue and the host institution. Cebull and Libring will conduct their fellowship research during the spring 2020 semester.

People with hand amputations experience difficult daily life challenges, often leading to lifelong use of a prosthetic hands and services. An electronic glove, or e-glove, developed by Purdue University researchers can be worn over a prosthetic hand to provide humanlike softness, warmth, appearance and sensory perception, such as the ability to sense pressure, temperature and hydration.

A traumatic brain injury is often easily suspected and can be confirmed and treated if necessary following an injury using a blood analysis, but scientists are reporting that even one mild blast to the brain can cause very subtle but permanent damage as well. Urine analysis taken within one week of a mild to traumatic brain injury also can provide faster diagnosis and treatment for such injuries.

Robert “Bob” Hannemann, a visiting professor of biomedical and chemical engineering and psychological sciences at Purdue University, received the Special Boilermaker Award from the Purdue Alumni Association in a surprise ceremony on Aug. 23 at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. The award recognizes and honors special people in the Purdue community who have contributed significantly to the improvement of the quality of life and the betterment of the educational experience for a substantial number of students.

Human pathogens, such as HIV and viruses causing respiratory tract infection, have molecular fingerprints that are difficult to distinguish. To better detect these pathogens, sensors in diagnostic tools need to manipulate light on a nanoscale. But there isn’t a good way to manufacture these light manipulation devices without damaging the sensors. Purdue University engineers have a solution: Stickers.

A tool that has been around for decades shows new promise in helping people with heart disease. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that adding ultrasound imaging during the doctor’s assessment of cardiac function could help improve diagnoses and treatments.