Winners of the BMES 2011 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Awards (Extended Abstract) were announced last month. The BMES Awards Committee selects students on the basis of scientific merit, originality, and quality of written presentation. Jamie Brugnano and Akhilesh Gaharwar were among the honorees for this year.

Adam Griebel and Tyler Novak took 2nd place in the undergraduate poster competition at the recent ASME conference held in Pennsylvania.

Trisha Eustaquio, a Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering graduate student working with Professor Jim Leary, was selected as one of 137 outstanding individuals world-wide to receive a scholarship from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics).

Purdue University researchers, led by R. Graham Cooks of chemistry and Zheng Ouyang of BME, recently took their miniature mass spectrometer grocery shopping to test for traces of chemicals on standard and organic produce.

The end of the semester included a flurry of honors for several of our outstanding graduate students.

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has awarded nearly $3 million to a new generation of medical students and researchers at Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame to encourage home-grown innovation in Indiana. Weldon School student, Andrew Koivuniemi, and faculty Ji-Xin Cheng and Riyi Shi were each awarded for their innovative and collaborative work in the Life Sciences.

Michael G. Heinz, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences was elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from chemical bonds in molecules exposed to a pulsing laser.

Jenna Rickus, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Agricultural & Biological Engineering has been selected to receive support from the Trask Innovation Fund for her research.

Ji-Xin Cheng and Corey Neu have been selected to participate in the 2011-2012 Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy at Purdue University.