Professor Riyi Shi was the sole invited speaker at the State of New York Spinal Cord Research Board Meeting, held in New York City on December 2nd.

The 2005-2006 Geddes-Laufman-Greatbatch Award has been presented to Grace Park.

Cindy Ferguson, secretary to the BME academic programs office, was named the recipient of this year's BME Staff Service Award.

In recognition of the dedicated service of our faculty members, the school has initiated an Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Faculty Award, which this year has been presented to Professor Sherry Voytik-Harbin.

Aaron Kyle was awarded the 2005 Fearnot Prize from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

Recent research work by Purdue professors Ji-Xin Cheng of BME and Alex Wei of Chemistry is the focus of a news feature on nanotechweb.org.

Last month, Small Times unveiled its fourth annual Best of Small Tech Awards, naming Professor Rashid Bashir as a finalist in their Innovator category.

Professor Rashid Bashir was invited to give the plenary talk at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Ken and Kitty Decker of West Lafayette, Indiana, have established a new scholarship that will benefit future biomedical engineering students.

At the first ever Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Nanomedicine, Professor Tom Webster was selected as an award finalist for the Young Investigator Award.