With more than 123 opportunities to travel around the world, Purdue University is seeing more undergraduate students studying abroad than ever this summer.

Young Kim, of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, was one of three Purdue researchers in the College of Agriculture, College of Engineering and College of Veterinary Medicine to receive a portion of $150,000 from the Trask Innovation Fund to develop his work.

The humble sewing machine could play a key role in creating "soft" robotics, wearable electronics and implantable medical systems made of elastic materials that are capable of extreme stretching.

J. Paul Robinson, a professor of cytomics in Purdue's College of Veterinary Medicine and professor in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has received the Membership Award from the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, ISAC.

Five years of probing the brains of teenage football players reveals a disturbing truth - more than half of those who never sustain a concussion suffer lingering cognitive disability because of repeated subconcussive blows to the head.

Dr. Charlie Babbs (MD, PhD), faculty member of the Weldon School, was awarded a certificate of merit as Outstanding Professor in Basic Sciences by the Class of 2014, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Russell Main, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and assistant professor of basic medical sciences, has been selected as a 2014-2015 Discovery Park Faculty Research Fellow, and his project, "Imaging 3D cellular networks and fluid flow in a 3D culture model for bone," was chosen as a Discovery Park Fellows Project.

Cardiac surgeons could use a patent-pending invention co-designed by Weldon School graduate students Elizabeth Mercer and Johnny Zhang to standardize a test that determines if a pacemaker's leads, or the thin insulated wires that extend from the pacemaker, are securely embedded in heart tissue.

A research team using tunable luminescent nanocrystals as tags to advance medical and security imaging have successfully applied them to high-speed scanning technology and detected multiple viruses within minutes.