Announcements

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.

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.