Four Weldon School students have been selected as this year's recipients of the Joe Bourland Graduate Student Travel Award.

Whitney Bullock was awarded a President's Poster Competition Award at the 2012 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting held in Minneapolis, MN, October 12-15, 2012.

Alex Kokini, a junior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as the undergraduate representative to the Engineering Advisory Council. The Council, formed in 1972, is a group of distinguished alumni and friends of the Schools of Engineering who meet twice-yearly with faculty, staff, and students. As industry, academic and government leaders, EAC members offer external counsel, furthering Purdue engineering in its mission of learning, discovery, and engagement.

Brad Duerstock, an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Weldon School was recently featured in "Findings."

The Purdue student chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) received the 2012 Biomedical Engineering Society Outstanding Outreach Award.

At the recent International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Professor Zheng Ouyang was awarded the Curt Brunnee Award "for outstanding contributions to the development of instrumentation for mass spectrometry by a person under the age of 45." It is given by the International Mass Spectrometry Society to one researcher every 3 years.

Sean Connell, a Purdue Biomedical Engineering doctoral researcher, was recently selected for two prestigious honors.

The Biomedical Engineering Society selected Professor James F. Leary as a 2012 BMES Fellow. BMES Fellows were recognized at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, October 24-27.

Professor D. Marshall Porterfield has been chosen as the new Division Director of NASA's Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications Division.

Dr. Akhilesh Gaharwar has been selected to receive an annual Acta Student Award for his primary contribution to the manuscript, "Assessment of using Laponite cross-linked poly(ethylene oxide) for controlled cell adhesion and mineralization," Acta Biomaterialia 7 (2011) 568-577, written while he was a graduate student with Prof. Gudrun Schmidt at Purdue.