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Keck Foundation to fund Purdue research into spectroscopic imaging
A team of Purdue University researchers has been awarded a $1 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant to develop a new type of imaging technology for cell and tissue analysis. Central to the concept is the invention of a new way to perform in-vivo spectroscopy, or using a pulsing laser light to determine the precise chemical content of tissues in living organisms.
Weldon School undergraduate program is uniquely experiential and placement focused
This May, the Weldon School will commemorate its 9th class of graduates from the undergraduate program. As the seniors finalize their post-graduation plans, we celebrate the innumerable ways they have distinguished themselves. Their achievements reflect the high standards of our academic program. Here we spotlight our undergraduate program and the qualities that distinguish us—and in turn, our students.
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Reese Terry establishes fellowship, traces success to Weldon School
The Weldon School is honored by alumni and friends who give back to the school in a myriad of ways, through partnerships, scholarships, fellowships, gifts, and their time and talent to support our mission. Many can attribute their success to the Weldon School. One such supporter is Reese Terry, co-founder of Cyberonics and a longtime friend to the Weldon School, who has recently established the Reese S. Terry, Jr. Fellowship in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
BIOMEDSHIP pilots new program for entrepreneurs-in-training
Purdue graduate students are learning how to develop a sound business model using a new training program called LaunchPad Central in the Biomedical Entrepreneurship Program (BIOMEDSHIP), an innovative graduate certificate program that provides experiential training in innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of biomedical technology and the medical device industry.
Save the Date for Day of Giving
Purdue's second annual Day of Giving is set for April 29, 2015. Day of Giving is a one-day, online, university-wide social media event to build a better, stronger, more affordable Purdue. For 24 hours, students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents and friends will come together to grant opportunities and transform lives. Last year, the Weldon School received $829,743 during the event. This was 12% of the overall $7.5 million received from 6,500 donations to Purdue and the third highest amount received by participating units across campus.
Weldon portrait dedicated
A magnificent portrait of the School’s benefactors, Norm Weldon, managing director of Partisan Management Group, and Tom Weldon, chairman and managing director of Accuitive Medical Ventures, was dedicated and recently installed in the Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering atrium to honor the Weldon family for envisioning and building Biomedical Engineering at Purdue.
Alumna Jocelyn Dunn living in simulated space habitat on "Mars" mission
Weldon School alumna and Purdue industrial engineering doctoral student is among six "crew members" spending eight months in a domed habitat on a volcanic landscape mimicking life on a Martian outpost. Jocelyn Dunn began the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) mission in October, 2014.
Join us as we advance both higher education and the medical device and biotechnology fields. If you are interested in learning more about the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, please contact Brian Knoy at bjknoy@purdueforlife.org. We would like to learn about you, answer your questions, and schedule a visit.
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Interns experience full process of needs-based medical device innovation in NIH-supported clinical immersion program
Join us as we advance both higher education and the medical device and biotechnology fields. If you are interested in learning more about the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, please contact Brian Knoy at bjknoy@purdueforlife.org. We would like to learn about you, answer your questions, and schedule a visit.
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