The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has rewarded the research efforts of Professor Pedro Irazoqui with a Coulter Phase II Early Career Award - the first at Purdue.

The June 29, 2009 issue of Chemical & Engineering News spotlights Professor Ji-Xin Cheng's research using coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy to study the central nervous system.

Opening day at the Indiana State Fair is typically a buzz of activity with a myriad of the Band Day events scheduled. This year, Opening Day/Band Day was also Purdue Day, and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering was well-represented.

The Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce that Professor Zheng Ouyang has been selected to receive an NSF CAREER Award.

Professor Ann Rundell has been selected to receive a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for her work on advancing model predictive control of cell differentiation.

A late-night, special session of the Indiana State Legislature successfully passed the final version of the state budget on June 30th, just hours before the July 1 deadline. Included in the budget was funding at a level of $10 million per year for the Indiana Innovation Alliance.

A recent paper by Purdue BME researchers Youngnam Cho, Riyi Shi, Albena Ivanisevic and Richard Borgens has been selected as the cover feature article for the prestigious journal, Nanotechnology.

Jianming Li, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, has just returned to campus following a three-week visit to China. His visit was sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Umut Atakan Gurkan was selected as this year's recipient of the Geddes-Laufman-Greatbatch Award, presented by the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue.

Jean Chmielewski, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Alice Watson Kramer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).