Eric Nauman, professor of biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and basic medical sciences and director of the College of Engineering Honors Program has been named the recipient of a 2016 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in Memory of Charles B. Murphy.

Researchers involved in a national effort to develop cancer treatments that harness nanotechnology are recommending pivotal changes in the field because experiments with laboratory animals and efforts based on current assumptions about drug delivery have largely failed to translate into successful clinical results.

HemoTherm, led by biomedical engineering seniors Tori Clift and Stephanie Eichman and Sahil Sanghani, a senior in electrical and computer engineering, won the $20,000 top prize in the Black Division of the Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition. Two teams led by Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students and faculty also placed in the Gold Division: MarginPat won second place, and RoboDesk won third place.

Our fingerprints identify us, and that's about all they can do. Zhongming Liu, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering, gathers far more useful kinds of fingerprints--maps of neural circuitry and activity in our brains, which will truly characterize us and help us understand and treat mental illness and neurological disorders. Find out more about Liu's work in the latest issue of Discovery: Innovation@Purdue Engineering online magazine.

Researchers have developed a new analytical tool for medical applications and biological research that might be used to diagnose cancer more rapidly than conventional methods. The research has implications for the field of lipidomics, which involves the identification and quantification of cellular lipid molecules, how they interact with other components in cells and their role in biological systems.

The College of Engineering at Purdue University has one of the top 25 engineering ethics programs in the country according to a new report issued by the National Academies of Engineering (NAE) Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES). The report showcases PRIME Ethics: Purdue's Reflective & Interactive Modules for Engineering Ethics as an exemplary educational research program for its novel approach to infusing ethics into the development of engineering students.

Rui Li, a graduate student at the Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, received a SPIE Translational Research Award for his paper, "Intraoperative assessment of breast tumor margins using a multimodal photoacoustic tomography system." Li, a member of Purdue's Label-free Spectroscopic Imaging Group, was presented the award at the SPIE Photonics West 2016 conference Sunday, February 14, for work demonstrating innovative optical techniques for real-world healthcare challenges.

Purdue University researchers have shown that a synthetic version of a high-strength adhesive produced by mussels is non-toxic to living cells, suggesting its potential suitability for surgical and other biomedical applications.

Jackie Linnes, an assistant professor from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, will headline Purdue University's Science on Tap next week with a talk on the current and future advancements that are making health care accessible around the world. The talk also will shine the spotlight on point of care (POC) molecular diagnostics in light of the ongoing Zika virus outbreak.