The Purdue Board of Trustees has approved faculty promotions, effective with the 2012-2013 academic year.

The annual Celebration of Graduate Student Teaching Excellence included the presentation of awards to two Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering graduate students.

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering faculty members were recently recognized at a faculty awards convocation for international and national awards, University and college honors, and also for years of service.

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.