Steven Lee, who recently graduated from the Weldon undergraduate program and is now entering Weldon's M.D./Ph.D. program, has been profiled by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Please check out this excellent interview.

Klod Kokini, Associate Dean of Engineering for Academic Affairs and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named the winner of the ASME Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies, Inc. Medal. The medal recognizes outstanding contribution by an individual, company, government entity, school, or other organization toward developing and implementing practices, processes and programs that value and strategically manage diversity and inclusiveness.

Patrick Schexnailder, Mary-Margaret Seale, and Mike Zordan have been selected as the recipients of the Joe Bourland Graduate Student Travel Award for Spring 2008.

Representatives of three companies launched from research developed at Purdue will travel to California's Silicon Valley to meet with venture capital firms on May 13th and 14th. The three companies were selected from a competition held on campus last October during a Fund Raising Boot Camp.

A company proposed by Shane Fimbel won a $25,000 top prize in the Incubicity business plan competition held recently in Monticello, Indiana.

Five BME graduate students were selected to receive this year's Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Brian C. Ward, an MD/PhD candidate working with Professor Alyssa Panitch, was awarded this year's Geddes-Laufman-Greatbatch Award.

Researchers at Purdue University have discovered a possible new pathway for anti-tumor drugs to kill cancer cells and proposed how to improve the design of tiny drug-delivery particles for use in "nanomedicine."

Professor Riyi Shi has been awarded the School of Veterinary Medicine's 2008 Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence.

Three students in Professor Riyi Shi's laboratory have received awards in the Sigma Xi Graduate Student Research Poster Award competition, and will be honored at a banquet on April 16. Jianming Li earned First Place (engineering science) for his poster "Novel three-dimensional polymeric scaffolds for neural tissue engineering." Hui Ouyang received an Honorable Mention (engineering science) for her poster "Functional deficit of spinal cord white matter after decompression is proportional to the strain and duration of sustained compression during injury." Kristin Hamann earned First Place (life sciences) for her poster "Acrolein Scavengers as Potential Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury." Please join us in congratulating them on these awards.