Announcements

The Rensselaer Board of Trustees has approved Ryan Gilbert's promotion to the rank of Professor. Ryan Gilbert joined the Rensselaer faculty in 2010 as an assistant professor and he was promoted to associate professor in 2013. In 2012, Dr. Gilbert received the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Gilbert serves as an associate editor of the journal Cells, Tissues, and Organs, and chairs a Department of Veterans Affairs Panel, Rehabilitation and Research and Development-Regenerative Medicine. Dr.

The Graduation reception is held at the Academy Hall Auditorium on May 18, 2018 to celebrate the achievements of the students graduating this year. A total of 109 students are graduating with a BS, 22 with a Masters, and 10 PhDs are awarded. The number of students receiving degrees of all three types is at a record level, reflecting the popularity of the program. In addition to honoring the graduating students, several awards are given: The Paul B. Daitch Memorial Award: Sara Harper The Zelda & David G. Gisser Prize in Biomedical Engineering: Qi Pian The J.

One of the BME design teams advised by Dr. Eric Ledet has been selected to participate in the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Coulter College Program on August 2-5, 2018. The program will be held at Medtronic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The student team members are Katerina Kradinova, Jennifer Vincent, Khaled Abdoun, and Michael Arboleda. More information about the program can be found here: https://www.bmes.org/bmescoultercollege

Bridging Athletics and STEM through Biomechanics

BME Faculty Highlights Series Professor John Drazan and Outreach Activities This article is the sixth in a series aimed at spotlighting the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at RPI. In this series, we will highlight biomedical research areas, cutting edge engineering techniques, student and trainee successes, as well as the broader societal impacts of the work in BME.

Two biomedical engineering faculty have been selected to receive awards from the School of Engineering. Ge Wang will receive the Outstanding Professor of Engineering award and Mariah Hahn the Research Excellence award. The award ceremony will be held at the SoE Faculty Achievement and Recognition Dinner on Wednesday, April 25th, 2018.

Devan Puhl has been awarded one of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships (NSF GRFP) for her graduate studies at Rensselaer. She is a first year student working in Dr. Ryan Gilbert's lab on biomaterials for nerve repair. Furthermore, a former undergraduate Rensselaer BME student, Carolyn Chlebek, who is now a graduate student at Cornell University has also been awarded the NSF GRFP.

An article from Deanna Thompson's group has been promoted to journal cover of the journal Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. The paper title is "Endothelial Cells Exposed to Fluid Shear Stress Support Diffusion Based Maturation of Adult Neural Progenitor Cells" and the citation information is

Dumont, C.M., Piselli, J., Temple, S. et al. Cel. Mol. Bioeng. (2018) 11: 117.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12195-017-0516-5

Kathryn (Katie) Hollowood, a graduate student in the Biomedical Engineering Department working in Dr. Juergen Hahn's group has won the Most Impactful on Human Health award for her presentation given at the 44th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference which was held on March 28-30, 2018, at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. The title of her presentation was "Analysis of Metabolites from Blood Samples of Pregnant Mothers and Probability of Autism Diagnosis of the Child". Details about the conference talk are given below: K. Hollowood, S. Melnyk, O. Pavliv, E. Sides, U. Kruger, S.J.