Announcements

Ryan Gilbert has been selected as the recipient of Trustees' Outstanding Teacher Award. The award was announced by Provost Hajela at the 53rd Annual Faculty Recognition Dinner. This award is the highest teaching honor given by Rensselaer. Given annually, this award recognizes outstanding accomplishments in classroom instruction. Selection is made based on evidence of sustained outstanding teaching as reflected by student evaluations, peer evaluations and letters of support from colleagues, alumni and students.

Dr. Mariah Hahn has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 School of Engineering Classroom Excellence Award. The SoE awardees will be celebrated at the Faculty Achievement Recognition Dinner on 05/03/2016.

Alexis Ziemba, a graduate student in the BME department, has received a Graduate Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for her studies. Furthermore, Amy Loya, a second year graduate student in BME, and Katherine Cummins, a senior student, received honorable mentions for the fellowship. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is the country’s oldest fellowship program that directly supports graduate students in various STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.

Kuwabo Mubyana, a graduate student in the BME department working under the Guidance of David Corr, is this year's winner of the Savio L-Y. Woo Young Researcher Award of the International Symposium on Ligaments and Tendons-XIV in Las Vegas, NV. The title of her research presented at the conference is "Cyclic Mechanical Loading Improves Tensile and Failure Properties of Scaffold-Free Engineered Tendon Fibers". Kuwabo joined the Corr lab in August 2013, after receiving a B.S. in Biology from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Her current research focuses on scaffold-free tendon fibrogenesis.

Leo Wan has created a TED Ed lesson on "Why are human bodies asymmetrical?". The lesson received over 100k downloads within the first 24 hours and can be found here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-human-bodies-asymmetrical-leo-q-wan

Mariah Hahn and Xavier Intes, two faculty in the Biomedical Engineering department, have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Mariah Hahn was selected for her contributions to the field of tissue engineering and biomaterials while Xavier Intes was honored for his work on biomedical imaging. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country.

Seven faculty members of the Biomedical Engineering Department were honored at the 2015 Trustee Celebration. This is an excellent number for the department and highlights the stature of BME in the institute. Specifically, the honored faculty were: - Mariah Hahn (promotion to Professor) - Guohao Dai (promotion to Associate Professor and also recipient of the 2015 James M.

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.