Announcements

Julie Campbell, class of 2012, has been awarded the Charles D. Dyce Award. This prize was established by friends in memory of Charles D. Dyce, Class of 1972. It is to be awarded to a student in the School of Engineering who, at the conclusion of the freshman or sophomore year, has demonstrated high scholastic ability and involvement in extracurricular activities and indicates potential for constructive leadership. Julie was nominated by her coach, Bridget Lanoir.

Congratulations to Nabeel Ali, Class of 2012, on his research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He will spend the summer working with Dr. Udo Hoffman, Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, utilizing predictive modeling to assess and quantify the risk associated with atherosclerotic plaque.

We are proud to be named as host of the 2011 Northeast Bioengineering Conference. Watch this website for information coming soon about dates, speakers, special events and other conference materials. For information on previous Northeast Bioengineering Conferences please see the NEBEC website. More Information: http://www.nebec.org/

At its recent Annual Conference, the Society for Women Engineers (SWE) awarded Rensselaer students and RPI-SWE Society for their contributions to Science (Andrea Nordberg received 2nd place for the Undergraduate Collegiate Technical Poster Competition) and promotion of engineering amongst women (the MOU Partnership Award for Exploring Engineering Day, certificate for Oustanding Collegiate Section, and Membership Retention Award). Pictured at right are Andrea Nordberg and SWE President Siddika Demir.

We are pleased to be among the distinguished group of 2010 PUF Laureates (Vashishth Co-PI). This 3-year award will allow graduate student exchange and combined PhD degrees between the Biomedical Engineering Department at Rensselaer and Université Montpellier 2, France. More Information: http://facecouncil.org/puf/grantees/grantees-2010-2013/

Congratulations to Deanna Thompson, who has been awarded the 2010 Research Excellence Award from the School of Engineering.

It is a great pleasure to share the news that David Corr has received an NSF Career Award for project, entitled "CAREER: Engineering Functional Muscle - Tendon Structures using Scaffold - Free Cell - Based Directed Assembly and Theoretical Modeling."

Jin Chen, doctoral student of Dr. Xavier Intes, received the "Outstanding Presentation of Original Scientific Research" from Columbia University, for her presentation titled "Time gated optical imaging for functional and structural imaging" at the 36th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference in March 2010. Jin also received the "Best Student Poster Presentation Award" from the 2010 Biomedical Optics Meeting in Miami, FL. The title was "Time Resolved Optical Imaging with Patterned Light for Pre - Clinical Studies."