Jim Leary, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and SVM Professor of Nanomedicine has been selected to receive the Distinguished Life Sciences Scientist Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S Chamber of Commerce.

Becky Bercich, a graduate student working with Professor Pedro Irazoqui, has been selected to serve as director of the Golden Silks color guard and winter guard for the 2010-11 season of Purdue Bands.

Keith Hansen, a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has been notified of his selection as Indiana's only student representative to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

Professor Kevin Otto of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, a co-investigator along with Joe Garner (Animal Sciences) and Jessica Huber (Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences), has been selected to receive research funding from the Showalter Foundation.

Corey Neu, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been notified that he is the recipient of a 2010 Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) International Travel Grant.

Ji-Xin Cheng has been notified that he has been selected for a Phase I Coulter Translational Research Award.

Kinam Park's current research project has been selected to receive funding from the Showalter Trust for 2010-2011.

Neal Fearnot, a Purdue BME alum, has been selected by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation to receive their top honor, the Laufman-Greatbatch Prize.

NASA has selected a proposal submitted by Marshall Porterfield, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Engineering, to study how life responds and adapts to space and microgravity for its Fundamental Space Biology Program. His project will be part of a "mission of opportunity" to study how tiny electrical currents in fern spores impact plant development in microgravity.

An algorithm that was developed by Professor Charles Bouman of Purdue and Ken Sauer,in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Thibault and Jiang Hsieh of GE Healthcare, has garnered international attention via AuntMinnie.com. The algorithm came out of research that was originally funded by NSF in the early 1990s.