Announcements

Dr. Leo Wan has been selected as a recipient of the 2015 School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. The SoE awardees will be celebrated at the Faculty Achievement Recognition Dinner on 05/12/2015.

One of our undergraduate students, Alexandra Rindone, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Alexandra is set to graduate this May and is planning to attend Johns Hopkins University for graduate school.

On March 10th, Dr. Samuel Sia from Columbia University gave the 2015 Undergraduate Seminar in Global Health. His talk, titled "Microfluidics for Personal Mobile Diagnostics" can be seen here: http://mediasite.mms.rpi.edu/Mediasite5/Play/3a14909e4cc7444182d0f15b33… The abstract of his talk is shown below: Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices have a tremendous potential for revolutionizing personal health.

Eric Ledet has been named the 2015 recipient of the very prestigious “ISSLS Prize”. This is an international annual award, which is largely considered to be the highest recognition a researcher can receive in the field of spine. It is awarded by a selection committee from the journal SPINE and the International Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine. More detail about the ISSLS Prize can be found on their web site: http://www.issls.org/fellowship-awards/the-issls-prize-for-lumbar-spine…

Five faculty members of the Biomedical Engineering Department were honored at the 2014 Trustee Celebration.

Omar Abdoun, a junior 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”. The program received over 600 submissions and Omar was selected as one of the finalists. KAUST is paying all expenses for finalists to travel to KAUST and presenting their research.

Guohao Dai was selected for the Rising Star Award and was invited to give a talk at the next BMES Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering Conference (CMBE). The CMBE Conference will be held on January 6-10, 2015 in St Thomas, USVI.

Juergen Hahn has been named a Trustee by the CACHE Corporation. CACHE, which stands for Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering, promotes the development and distribution of technology based materials and software in chemical engineering education through projects applying computational chemical engineering, sponsoring conferences, recognizing outstanding contributions, and providing leadership in chemical engineering education. More details about CACHE can be found on their web site: www.cache.org