Lindsay Wendel, who recently completed her junior year in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive this year's Bruce Helfert Memorial Award.

Emily Gullotti, a graduate student in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected as a P.E.O. Scholar.

Nimisha Bajaj, a graduating senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, is the recipient of the 2009-2010 Flora Roberts Award, given to the outstanding senior woman. She will attend medical school in the fall.

A new biosensor developed by Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering faculty members can measure whether neurons are performing correctly when communicating with each other, giving researchers a tool to test the effectiveness of new epilepsy or seizure treatments.

Eric Nauman, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Basic Medical Sciences, has been selected to receive the 2010 College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award.

GlucaGo, the three-student Biomedship team of Rush Bartlett and Art Chlebowski (BME) and Peter Greco (Krannert), has been invited to the Global MOOT corp competition at the University of Texas in May. To qualify most competitors must win a semifinal competition. The Texas competition had three categories with three first place winners. "They had to pick one, in this case GlucaGo, to be the lead finalist," explains Bartlett. With a $135,000 first prize, "It is the SuperBowl of Business Plan competitions."

In its inaugural issue, the Journal of Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology has published an article written by Rebecca Roeder and Cindy Ferguson as a tribute to Dr. Leslie A. Geddes.

Purdue College of Engineering and Graduate School awards were recently announced. Weldon graduate students continue to shine and receive recognition for their contributions in research and the classroom. Todd Rickett received a Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship. Emily Gullotti and Matthew Ward each received a Magoon Graduate Teaching Award. Art Chlebowski received the Magoon Graduate Teaching Award and the CETA Teaching Award for 2010.

GlucaGo needs your vote! Purdue students, Rush Bartlett, Peter Greco, and Art Chlebowski are at it again. GlucaGo is a semi-finalist in the Dell Social Innovation competition. There is an online voting process for the semi-final round.

Jenna Sullivan, a 2009 graduate of the Weldon School MS program, was selected as the Purdue University College of Engineering's nominee for the 2010 Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Distinguished MS Thesis Award. The title of her thesis was "Small Animal PET for the Detection of Alcohol- or Cocaine-Induced Striatal Dopamine Release."