Graduate students Ayeeshik Kole, Jenny Lin, and Evan Phillips have been awarded fellowships for 2017-2018 by Purdue's College of Engineering.

Four Purdue Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students were awarded the prestigious Charles C. Chappelle Fellowship: Bahar Dhowan, Alexander Ocken, Melanie Venderley, and Kelsey Wasilczuk.

Weldon School senior Michael Drakopoulos has received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Program student Tran Nguyen (advisor: Hugh Lee) received an honorable mention.

Shelley Claridge, assistant professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. CAREER Awards are considered one of the most prestigious for promising researchers in science and engineering.

An innovation at Purdue University could allow highly sensitive detection of an infectious disease such as HIV or whooping cough by using a low-cost, automated, point-of-care test similar in packaging to a pregnancy test.

The 2017 Martin C. Jischke Outstanding International Student of the Year Award has been presented to Bahar Dhowan, a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. This award was established by president emeritus Martin C. Jischke to honor an international Purdue student who has helped the University welcome and connect people of all cultures. Honorees also must demonstrate excellence in scholarship, leadership, character and service.

Richard Borgens, the Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neuroscience in the College of Veterinary Medicine and a professor of biomedical engineering is featured in Purdue Today's "Inventors and Innovators" series. Borgens, in collaboration with Riyi Shi and Andrew Blight (former Purdue professor), developed the drug Ampyra, which has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for improving motor function in patients with multiple sclerosis.

A "chemical imaging" system that uses a special type of laser beam to penetrate deep into tissue might lead to technologies that eliminate the need to draw blood for analyses including drug testing and early detection of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.

WLFI interviewed senior and Fulbright grant winner Andre Woloshuk about his plans to teach English in Poland following graduation. Related story at: Woloshuk offered highly-competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant.