BME PhD student Shirley Masand was awarded first place in the "PhD Student Paper Competition" in "Biomaterials and Nanotechnology" at the 2011 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Farmington, PA. The award is based on a composite score from the conference paper and oral presentation. Shirley is advised by Professor David Shreiber.
News
June 2011
June 24, 2011
BME PhD student Mohammad Zia has been selected by a faculty committee to receive a GSBS at RWJMS 2011 Ph.D. completion and acceleration fellowship. Support will run from July 2011 through December 2011. Mohammad is in the laboratory of Professor John Semmlow .
May 2011
May 19, 2011
The following Junior BME Honors Academy Members were selected for Best Posters at the 2011 Senior Design Conference:
Joseph Galaro - Advisor Anant Madabhushi "Integrated Texton and Bag of Words Classifier for Identifying Anaplastic Medulloblastomas"
Anthony Kulesa - Advisor Prabhas Moghe - "Elucidating the Role of Substrate Rigidity on the Cytoskeletal Organization of Stem Cells"
May 19, 2011
BME Undergraduates Ian Johnston and Ajay Menon, along with MSE undergraduate Brian Doyle, received 1st Place in the Rutgers Energy Institute's "Energy Innovation Contest" at this year's Rutgers Energy Symposium. The annual energy symposium provides an environment for faculty, students, government officials and community members to not only learn but collaborate about the new methods, processes, and innovations being pursued by energy thinkers here at Rutgers, as well as across the country.
May 16, 2011
Professor Martin Yarmush was among 7 awardees of 190 applications solicited by the Harvard Institute of Translational Immunology of a one year $180,000 grant. Dr. Yarmush's project will take advantage of molecular biology and microfabrication techniques in order to detect autoantibody levels with great sensitivity. This achievement would enable the detection of the onset of Type 1 diabetes far earlier, allowing the use of interventions designed to deter disease progression.
May 2, 2011
Professor Helen Buettner has received a Leaders in Faculty Diversity Award in recognition of her leadership efforts to advance women faculty in the STEM disciplines as an RU FAIR-NSF ADVANCE Professor. The Diversity Awards recognize faculty who advance Rutgers' objectives of fostering diversity in teaching, research and service, not only to serve Rutgers students, but also to serve the needs of the state of New Jersey. The award will be presented by President McCormick at the 2010-2011 Faculty Awards Ceremony on May 4.
April 2011
April 29, 2011
Professor Prabhas Moghe has been awarded Teacher of the Year for 2011 by the Engineering Governing Council (EGC). The EGC is comprised of undergraduate engineering students and they voted for Professor Moghe based on his teaching style, professionalism and fairness in the classroom. The award will be given at the Engineering Governing Council Leadership Conference Awards Ceremony on May 1st.
April 27, 2011
Elaine Yu, a 3rd year BME, LCIB undergraduate student has been accepted to the 2011 Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative Summer Internship program and awarded a research scholarship of $3,850. This ten week research internship is supported by the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates funding mechanism (NSF REU). This program is a highly competitive program which only accepts 10 students per year. Elaine is advised by Professor Anant Madabhushi.
April 21, 2011
Professor Martin Yarmush was awarded the 2011 FPBD award. The selection committee recognized his singular contributions in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, metabolic engineering, and functional genomics, as well as his intellectual and professional leadership, and loyalty and commitment to AIChE and Division 15 in particular. The award will be presented during the annual AIChE meeting in October 2011.
April 13, 2011
Mark Pierce, PhD, will join the Biomedical Engineering Department starting September 2011. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester, UK in 2001, where his research focused on the interaction of mid-infrared lasers and biological tissues. He then joined Harvard Medical School as a post-doc, working on the development and clinical application of optical coherence tomography systems for ophthalmology, dermatology and cardiovascular imaging.