One of BME senior colleagues, Litsa Micheli-Tzanakou decided to retire after 31 years of service at Rutgers School of Engineering effective June 30, 2012. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering as Assistant Professor in January 1981. When BME Department was formed in 1986 she was appointed as Co-Graduate Director. She was promoted to Professor I and served as the Second BME Chair from 1990 to 1998. In 1998 she was further promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor II and continued to be a department Chair till 2000 when she stepped down after she established the BME undergraduate program. Litsa was one of the founding Fellows of AIMBE. She served as an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Surgery, RWJ Medical School for more than twenty years. She has been BME Book Series Editor with Academic Press. In 1986, she co-authored a book on Neuroelectric Systems with Sid Deutch, NY University Press and has published over 300 articles in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Litsa is an invited speaker to many conferences and workshops. She has been a very active member of IEEE; in 2009, she was one of the Editors of a Book on Biometrics -Theory, Methods and Applications. The book was intended to be a resource for researchers, security experts, policy makers, engineers and graduate students. Litsa was featured as one of IEEE innovators and "The Scientist", plus featured in the Women`s History Month in the IEEE History Center from IEEE. Her awards include the achievement award from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in 1992 and she was honored and was the recipient of Meritorious Service Award, IEEE-CIS in 2006, and 2010 IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award, IEEE Education Activities Board (EAB) with the citation, "for vision and leadership in establishing the IEEE Biometrics Certification Program". She has supervised and graduated more than 50 graduate students with Masters and PhDs from BME, ECE and CS and has supervised several postdoctoral fellows. She is currently working on a new book on Neural Processes. BME wishes her happy retirement