Five members of Alpha Eta Mu Beta, an honor society for Purdue University biomedical engineering students, visited Elkhart recently to share their passion for engineering and science with Hawthorne Elementary School sixth graders.

Lindsay E. Wendel, a graduating senior in biomedical engineering, has been selected as the student responder for the engineering commencement ceremony, to be held on May 13th.

At the Faculty Awards Convocation, held on April 28, 2011, several BME faculty members were recognized.

Purdue University graduate research was extremely well represented at the Institute for Biological Engineering's Annual Meeting, held in March in Atlanta, GA.

Several outstanding BME undergraduate students have been recognized for their stellar accomplishments.

Professors Ji-Xin Cheng and Kinam Park have been selected as shared awardees of the Lafayette Lions Club Award for Outstanding Cancer Research at Purdue.

Sean Connell, a BME graduate student, and Jianming Li, Weldon alum, both of Professor Riyi Shi's lab, represented their Biomedship spin-off company, Medtric Biotech in a recent business plan competition.

The Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering is proud to announce the selection of Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng for the Early Career Research Excellence Award, to be presented by the College of Engineering on April 16, 2011.

Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student Association (BMEGSA) helped judge the Lafayette Regional Science Engineering Fair held on March 4th and 5th. BMEGSA representatives presented awards to the junior or senior high school students with the top Biomedical Engineering related projects.

Researching a drug already approved for hypertension relief, Weldon Professor Riyi Shi and his team are finding promising results that may delay the onset and reduce the severity of symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis patients. A provisional patent has been filed on Shi's research, and commercialization partners are being sought.