Registration is now open for the 2nd Annual Multimodal NLO Microscopy Workshop taking place July 26 through 27, 2012 at Purdue University. This is the second workshop to highlight various modalities of nonlinear optical microscopy in a one-day symposium and offer practicum workshops with state-of-the-art microscopes.

Professor Charles Bouman is a member of a team including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, California Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and Northwestern University who have been notified that their proposal has been selected for funding through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.

The Showalter Selection Committee in Indianapolis has selected a research proposal by Russ Main, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Basic Medical Sciences for funding.

The 12th Semi-Annual Senior Design Presentations and Demonstrations were held on Friday, May 4th, to a capacity crowd.

Kevin Otto, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Biological Sciences, has been selected to receive a 2012 Summer Faculty Grant from the Purdue Research Foundation.

Sean Connell, a Purdue Biomedical Engineering doctoral researcher, and Will Schryver, a Purdue MBA candidate, have taken top honors at the LES Foundation Graduate Student Business Plan Competition with their start-up company, Medtric Biotech, LLC.

Eugenio Culurciello, and Associate Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been notified that he will receive funding from Xilinx to support his work on bio-inspired models of the visual system.

Tyler Novak, a graduate student working with Professor Corey Neu, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Three Weldon School Biomedical Engineering graduate students were honored recently by Sigma Xi.