Three groups of BME faculty recently won Academic Excellence Fund Awards - awards meant to support existing and emerging areas of excellence in the University. These include: 1) Professors Yves Chabal, Eric Garfunkel, Prabhas Moghe, Kathryn Uhrich, and Martin Yarmush for a new Nano-Interfacial Science and Engineering program; 2) Professors Prabhas V. Moghe, Charles M. Roth, and Kathryn E. Uhrich for the Center for Science and Engineering in Nanomedicine; and 3) Professor Dimitris Metaxas and several computer science colleagues for a Pervasive Dynamic Cyber-physical Ecosystem.