Jay Blanchette has been notified that he will receive the Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Research at the BMES/EMBS 2002 Meeting to be held in Houston, TX in October. The award includes a certificate, a stipend, registration for the BMES Annual Fall Meeting, and travel expenses. A total of 5 awards for all graduate participants is given out each meeting.

Jay is an NSF IGERT Fellow, working on his PhD under the guidance of Professor Nicholas Peppas.