Bradley Duerstock (seated), associate professor of engineering, won the Focus Award in recognition of his commitment to raising awareness and furthering access to education, work, and play for individuals with disabilities.  He has introduced students to the principles of design, evaluation and delivery of assistive technology for persons with disabilities in his IE 59000 graduate course. Duerstock inspires them to use their engineering skills and talent to improve society. He also developed the Purdue Institute for Accessible Science, in which his group explores innovative approaches to better integrate engineering strategies or technologies to improve the human condition. Duerstock has designed award-winning technology for individuals with mobility impairments, founding Prehensile Technologies LLC, to commercialize his inventions, and has worked recently on developing assistive technology that enables students with visual impairments to identify scientific images depicted on a computer screen. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons). Source: Purdue Newsroom. 

Hari Bharadwaj: Seed for Success Award

Sarah Calve: Seed for Success Award, Biomedical Engineering Society Rising Star Award for Junior Faculty, National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award

Jean Chmielewski: Herbert Newby McCoy Award, American Chemical Society Diversity Award, American Chemical Society Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences

Edward Delp: Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame, Society for Imaging Science and Technology Honorary Membership Award

Bradley Duerstock: Focus Award

Craig Goergen: Biomedical Engineering Society Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award

Fang Huang: Seed for Success Award

Pedro Irazoqui: Reilly Professor of Biomedical Engineering (named professorship)

Taeyoon Kim: Seed for Success Award

Tamara-Kinzer Ursem: NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Team Grant

Michael Ladisch: Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Kinam Park: University of Auckland Distinguished Visitor Award

Jenna Rickus: Seed for Success Award, ELATE Fellow, Diversity Catalyst

Preeti Sivasankar: Fellow, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association

Sarah Calve, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, won the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, Biomedical Engineering Society Rising Star Award for Junior Faculty, and a Seed for Success Award.