Announcements

Eric Ledet's article on “Neck Strength Imbalance Correlates with Increased Head Acceleration in Soccer Heading” was selected to receive the 2014 Sports Health T. David Sisk Award for Best Original Research Paper. This award is given for the most outstanding original research paper published in Sports Health in 2013. The reference information for the article is shown below: Dezman ZDW, Ledet EH, Kerr HA. Neck Strength Imbalance Correlates With Increased Head Acceleration in Soccer Heading.

Mariah Hahn has delivered a keynote lecture at the 9th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics. The title of her talk was "Vocal fold regeneration and biomaterial microenvironment". More details can be found on their web site: http://www.ncvs.org/ICVPB.php

On March 25th, Dr. Ramanujam from Duke University gave the 2014 Undergraduate Seminar in Global Health. Her talk, titled "Point of care optical technologies for women’s health" can be seen here. The abstract of her talk is shown below: Optical technologies have been exploited widely in the analytical chemical analysis of biological samples.

Marianne Sleiman who was an REU student at Rensselaer during the summer of 2013 has received a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. She worked with Guohao Dai during her time at RPI on "Development of a Hydrogel System to present EphrinB2 and EphB4 Signals for controlling Arterial Venous Differentiation". The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by the United States Congress in 1986 in honor of former United States Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater from Arizona.

Guohao Dai has been awarded the NSF Career Award for his proposal entitled "Engineer a functional 3-D vascular niche to regulate neural stem cell self-renewal and differentiation". The CAREER Award is given to faculty members at the beginning of their academic careers and is one of NSF’s most competitive awards, placing emphasis on high-quality research and novel education initiatives. The award speaks towards the exciting and cutting edge research program that Guohao has developed at Rensselaer. Guohao is the 7th NSF Career Awardee in Biomedical Engineering here at RPI!

Leo Wan has received the Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award by the March of Dimes Foundation for his proposal "Role of Nodal Signaling in Epithelial Chiral Morphogenesis". As part of the award, Leo Wan will receive $150,000 over two years. It is the mission of the March of Dimes to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. More information about the March of Dimes can be found on their web site: http://www.marchofdimes.com/

Ryan Gilbert has been named an associate editor for the journal 'Cells Tissues Organs'. This journal aims at bridging the gap between cell biology and developmental biology and the emerging fields of regenerative medicine (stem cell biology, tissue engineering, artificial organs, in vitro systems and transplantation biology). The journal has been published since 1945, making it one of the older journals in this field. The journal web site can be found here: http://www.karger.com/Journal/Home/224197

Ge Wang has been appointed to the Board of Associate Editors of the Medical Physics Journal. The journal web page can be found here: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapm/journal/medphys Medical Physics is the scientific journal of the American Association of Physics in Medicine and is an official science journal of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics, the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine, and the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP).