On October 26, the Weldon School held a town hall to discuss the outcomes of the 2021 Weldon School Diversity and Equity Climate Survey. With over 1/3rd of the Weldon School community participating in the survey last year, many areas of strength within the Weldon School community were identified as well as priority areas to further improve the culture and climate of the school.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. William Hillenbrand’s then anonymous donation of $500,000 to establish biomedical engineering research at Purdue. That initial seed investment brought us Drs. Leslie Geddes, Willis Tacker, Joe Bourland, and Charles Babbs to Purdue who put Purdue BME on the map with more than 30 inventions, many of which focused on implantable electronic devices including and energy-efficient implantable defibrillator and the automatic pacemaker.

To train the best postdocs – that is the motivation behind the formation of the Biomedical Research Associates Group (BRAG). This new initiative at the Weldon School will strengthen the communication between faculty and the sizable group of postdocs, visiting scholars and research scientists in the department. The plan is to facilitate professional development via monthly workshops, seminars, or Q&A sessions for scientists in training as well as including postdocs to relevant faculty events such as grant review roundtable.

The College of Engineering held a kickoff meeting Dec. 3 to officially launch its Center for Internet of Bodies (C-IoB), a new, emerging field that has been gaining global popularity.

Clarivate, a global web analytics company, has unveiled its 2021 list of Highly Cited Researchers.

Purdue Engineers are collaborating with the Indiana University School of Medicine to convert medical imaging data of cerebral aneurysms into computational models that can help to predict the progression of an individual patient's aneurysm.

Purdue University and physIQ, a leader in digital medicine, co-developed a viral detection algorithm for smartwatches. The research was led by Craig Goergen, Purdue's Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

Nan Kong, professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University, has been awarded a Seed Grant from the Shah Family Global Innovation Lab.

Fourteen new projects, two of which have ties to Weldon School faculty, have been funded by the 2021 Trailblazer Awards and Planning Grants, which are supported by Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Community Health Partnerships.

Current BME PhD student, Ángel Enríquez, was chosen as a LATinE Trailblazers in Engineering Fellow through Purdue University's College of Engineering.