Announcements

Kyle Altman, an undergraduate student in BME, was chosen as a finalist for presenting his research at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as part of the “KAUST Winter Enrichment Program International Undergraduate Poster Competition”. Each year hundreds of international undergraduates from across the globe submit abstracts for their research to this program. From these entries, 50 students are selected and invited to come to KAUST and present in the competition from over 600 submissions that were received.

Seven biomedical engineering students will be honored with Rensselaer's Founders awards. The award recipients are: Senior: James Z. Jackson, Simon M. McCarthy Graduate Student: Amanda S. Chin, Stacyann Morgan, Travis J. Omer, Qi Pian, Max A. Winkelman The Founders Award of Excellence was established in 1994 to honor students who embody qualities of creativity, discovery, leadership, and the values of pride and responsibility at Rensselaer. The award consists of a special certificate, recognition by faculty, staff, and peers at the Honors Convocation ceremony, and a cash prize.

Matthew Dion, a Ph.D. student in BME at RPI, participated in the Global Engineering Teams consortium as a representative of RPI last year. GET is a consortium of universities from around the world whose mission is to provide engineering students with unique international, interdisciplinary design experiences. (RPI has participated for three years and Prof. Eric Ledet is the RPI coordinator/faculty sponsor). Matthew and his teammates from the US, Brazil, and Germany took on a humanitarian challenge for their GET project and conceived of a very unique design solution to that challenge.

Juergen Hahn, Professor and Department Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department, has been appointed to the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Board of Governors for 2016. Dr. Hahn's research focuses on systems biology and in particular on using concepts from systems theory and applying them to biomedical systems. The IEEE CSS is dedicated to the advancement of research, development, and practice in automation and control systems.

The RPI Board of Trustees has approved Mariah Hahn's promotion to Professor. Mariah received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. She completed a post-doc at Rice University before joining Texas A&M University as an Assistant Professor in 2005 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. She moved to Rensselaer in 2012. Her research interests include elucidating cell-biomaterial interactions so as to rationally guide bone and vascular regeneration.

The RPI Board of Trustees has approved Guohao Dai's promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. Guohao graduated from Beijing University, China with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. in Biomechanics, where he performed research on cardiovascular system modeling and the dynamic coupling of left ventricle and systemic arteries. After that, he came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and subsequently joined the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science’s Medical Engineering and Medical Physics program. During his Ph.D.

Leo Wan's student Mike Raymond won the third place in the MS poster competition at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) held in Snowbird, Utah. The title of the poster was "Individual Cell-Based Morphological Analysis to Determine Chirality of Epithelial Morphogenesis". The 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference included Plenary Lectures, Symposia, Workshops and Student Design and Paper Competitions.