What makes pancreatic cancer so deadly is its covert and quick spread. Now, a “time machine” built by Purdue University engineers has shown a way to reverse the course of cancer before it spreads throughout the pancreas.

“These findings open up the possibility of designing a new gene therapy or drug because now we can convert cancerous cells back into their normal state,” said Bumsoo Han, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering and program leader of the Purdue Center for Cancer Research. Han has a courtesy appointment in biomedical engineering.

Cognitive decline is a major and growing public health issue. BME’s Anne Sereno is researching how a working memory for a particular sensory input or object — like the shape of a car, or its location in a parking lot — is encoded and represented in the brain.

Approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population has some type of disability — comprising the largest minority in the nation, spanning all races and ethnicities, socioeconomic groups, and genders. Yet each of these individuals can contribute to society if given the right tools, training and opportunities. That’s where assistive technology, or AT, comes in, says Purdue IE’s Brad Duerstock.

The College of Engineering recognized 54 staff members from 12 units who were awarded with University Bravo Awards this summer, including two from the Weldon School - Emily Blue, senior marketing and communications manager, and Chantalle Brown, academic advisor.

Matthew Ward, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University, has already surpassed $1M in new funding for the period July 2021 through August 2022.

Chi Hwan Lee, associate professor of biomedical engineering, was recently awarded the 2020 Editor's Award from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Speech section).

As a child, Chi Hwan Lee always had Lego sets on his birthday list. Lee, who loves math and physics, would spend hours building the sets – following the instructions as well as his imagination.

That imagination and those Lego pieces became the building blocks of Lee’s Purdue University research, which focuses on converting items like contact lenses and prosthetic hands into smart devices with specially designed electronic stickers to measure vision loss or simulate the sense of feeling.

Purdue Engineering Graduate Programs is hosting the Purdue Engineering Virtual Graduate Showcase, a premier graduate recruitment event, Oct. 3 and 4. Fully online, this event includes informational workshops, program-specific sessions, research highlights, virtual lab tours, a poster session with cash prizes, and more.

Purdue Engineering welcomed 35 new faculty members starting or hired this year, including two in Biomedical Engineering.

In the majority of cases, once Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students finish their post-doctorate experience or complete their studies to earn their degree, their time in academia has completed as they move on to work in the business or industry sector.