Ji-Xin Cheng, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, has been selected by colleagues and a panel of senior and distinguished professors to be a University Faculty Scholar.

Ten Purdue researchers have been selected to receive nearly $500,000 in funding through the Trask Innovation Fund. Four of those researchers are associated with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

Yeon Yeo, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, was one of nine Purdue faculty members awarded the National Science Foundation's most prestigious honor for outstanding young researchers in 2011.

The College of Engineering recognizes Business Office staff and teams for outstanding performance on a quarterly basis. Nominations are welcomed from staff and faculty.

Medtric Biotech LLC, led by BME graduate student Sean Connell, BME alum Jianming Li and Robert Einterz, won the $30,000 top prize in the Gold Division of the Burton Morgan Business Plan Competition.

A new research center based in Purdue's Discovery Park will award undergraduate and graduate fellowships for students who dream of studying science but face hurdles because of physical impairments

A research team led by Professor Riyi Shi has received $1.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to study why spinal cord damage often grows worse in the days and weeks after the initial injury.

A passion for sharing students' journeys -- and maybe some brownies or lasagna -- has provided constant motivation for Truda Strange, the 2012 Outstanding Academic Advisor as named last week by the Purdue Academic Advising Association (PACADA). Strange is the undergraduate academic advisor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

Babaki Ziaie, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, has harnessed the driving bass rhythm of rap music to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.

James F. Leary, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and SVM Professor of Nanomedicine, was elected as a 2012 SPIE Fellow, one of 75 new Fellows worldwide.