This year has been an especially difficult one for many due to the economic times. After much brainstorming and discussion, the BME staff, faculty and graduate students decided to participate in an alternative to the typical holiday gathering/gift exchange/white elephant.

Thursday, December 17th found nine biomedical engineering senior design teams presenting to a packed room of interested friends, families, and sponsors.

Researchers from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Purdue University, and Arizona State University were recently awarded the Synthes Prize for Spine Research at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Mike Heinz, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, has received an R01 notice of award from NIH (NIDCD).

Out of 19 NSF graduate research fellowships awarded to Purdue this year, three have come to BME students.

Catherine Whittington, a biomedical engineering student studying with Professor Sherry Voytik-Harbin, has been selected as the recipient of the Fearnot Prize for 2009.

James McMasters and Onyekachi Odoemene, both graduate students in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, have been selected to receive a Ronald W. Dollens Graduate Scholarship.

Three Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering students were selected to receive fall Joe Bourland Travel Awards

Weldon BME graduate students Yunzhou (Sophia) Shi and Jun Zhao have been selected to receive Ronald W. Dollens graduate scholarships.