Announcements

Jennifer Rico-Varela, a graduate student in Dr. Leo Wan's lab, has been honored with a presentation award at the 2018 National Diversity in STEM Conference which was held in San Antonio, Texas. Her award was the only one given to a graduate student in biomedical engineering. About the award: The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science awarded 105 graduate and undergraduate students for their research and presentation skills.

Alexies Ziemba has been selected to receive a 2018 Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience. This award is tied to the Neuroscience 2018 meeting which will be held from November 3-7 in San Diego, California, where Alexis will present her work and participate in professional development seminars. The Society for Neuroscience is a professional society, headquartered in Washington, DC, for basic scientists and physicians around the world whose research is focused on the study of the brain and nervous system.

The paper "Quantitative imaging of receptor-ligand engagement in intact live animals" was chosen as the cover story for Issue 286 of the Journal of Controlled Release. The paper is a collaboration between Rensselaer and Albany Medical College and is authored by Alena Rudkouskaya, Nattawut Sinsuebphon, Jamie Ward, Kate Tubbesing, Xavier Intes, and Margarida Barroso. 

Alexis Ziemba, a graduate student in Dr. Ryan Gilbert's group, has received one of the 2018 BMES Career Development Awards. The award provides a complementary registration for the 2018 BMES Annual Meeting and a travel allowance. More information about the award can be found here: https://www.bmes.org/awards#BMES%20Career%20Development%20Travel%20Awar…

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.