April 22, 2013
Junjie Li Selected for NIH Fellowship
Junjie Li has been selected as the recipient of an NIH fellowship through the Interdisciplinary Cancer Prevention Research Internship Program.
BME News
April 18, 2013
Bourland Travel Grant Recipients Selected
Four BME students have been selected to receive Joe Bourland Travel Grants: Aaron Kosinski, Rui Li, Yan Li, and Pu Wang.
April 10, 2013
Safe Pace Team Wins Purdue Elevator Pitch
Weldon students won the undergraduate division at the Purdue University Elevator Pitch Competition on April 5. Their concept, called Safe Pace, is a device that would help surgeons check a pacemaker implant during surgery to determine whether it was mechanically stable.
April 10, 2013
Weldon Juniors Inducted into Purdue Mortar Board
Juniors Alex Kokini and Kyle Pendergast were two of only forty upcoming Purdue seniors to be selected as members of the Purdue Mortar Board Chapter.
April 8, 2013
Kyle Pendergast Named Purdue Student Government President
Congratulations to Kyle Pendergast, a junior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Pendergast was elected president of the Purdue student government for the 2013-3014 academic year.
April 1, 2013
Weldon Students Recognized by National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Biomedical engineering students from Purdue University are being recognized for developing the concept for a new type of diagnostic technology to help people suffering from peripheral neuropathy.
March 15, 2013
Rucha Joshi Wins Best Poster Presentation Award
Congratulations to Weldon graduate student Rucha Joshi. Rucha presented a poster at the Society for Biomaterials- Biomaterials Day conference March 15, 2013, at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and won the award for best poster presentation (graduate and undergraduate). The poster was entitled, "Effect of Intermolecular Collagen Cross-link Content on matrix degradation," and was co-authored by fellow graduate student Tyler S. Smith and Dr. Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin, associate professor of biomedical engineering.