Kirk Foster and Jim Jones, veterans of the Weldon research staff, as well as Professor George Wodicka and graduate students Matias Zanartu and Julio Ho have successfully collaborated with Jessica Huber, Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue to make an impact in speech therapy for Parkinson's patients.

This year has been an especially difficult one for many due to the economic times. After much brainstorming and discussion, the BME staff, faculty and graduate students decided to participate in an alternative to the typical holiday gathering/gift exchange/white elephant.

Thursday, December 17th found nine biomedical engineering senior design teams presenting to a packed room of interested friends, families, and sponsors.

Researchers from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Purdue University, and Arizona State University were recently awarded the Synthes Prize for Spine Research at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.

Mike Heinz, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, has received an R01 notice of award from NIH (NIDCD).

Out of 19 NSF graduate research fellowships awarded to Purdue this year, three have come to BME students.