Student/Post-doc News
2008 Margaret Ayers Host Award
Geeta Mehta, a Ph.D. student in BME, has been awarded the 2008 Margaret Ayers Host Award, and will receive $5000 in support. Nominees for this award must be women actively pursing a doctoral degree who have demonstrated exceptional scholarly achievement, a sense of social responsibility, and an interest in the success of women in the academic community. Geeta was also awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship in 2007.
Posted on May 13, 2008, 4:33 pm
NDSEG Fellowships
BME graduate student David Lipps has been awarded a three-year National Defense and Science Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. David is a member of Professor James Ashton-Miller’s research group. As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) awarded nearly 200 new three-year fellowships. The DoD offered these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.
Posted on May 12, 2008, 4:44 pm
2008 NSF Fellowship Grants
Four Michigan Biomedical Engineering graduate students are the recipients of the 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. The BME department would like to congratulate David Thompson, Darcee Nelson, Marian Adamson, and Adam Maxwell on their impressive achievement. These 4 outstanding winners are associated with BME core faculty members Daryl Kipke Ph.D., Susan Brooks Ph.D., Michael Mayer Ph.D., and Charles Cain Ph.D. respectively. The awards are extremely competitive, especially this year, with fewer than 4% of applicants receiving honors.
The purpose of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. Each year the NSF awards approximately 1,100 Graduate Research Fellowships to outstanding individuals who are in the early stages of their graduate study. The fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based masters or doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
BME Professor Kate Barald held an NSF application workshop in October of 2007. More than 40 students from many Engineering College and Basic Science departments, including 3 of the 4 BME awardees, attended the informational workshop. This workshop will be given again in the fall of 2008. Dr. Barald is also willing to help students with their submissions, including editing their essays and research proposals. Kate Barald Ph.D. has served as a member of the NSF GRFP
Posted on April 8, 2008, 11:29 am
BME Student Received 2008 Felowship Award
Hesamoddin Jahanian, Ph.D. student in BME working with Dr. Douglas Noll, is the recipient of a Rackham International Student Fellowship for 2008 and will receive an award of $7,500 which can be used toward his stipend or tuition. Nominees for this fellowship must have a strong academic record, be making good progress toward the degree, and demonstrate outstanding academic and professional promise.
Posted on March 24, 2008, 4:38 pm
Research Fellow Mohammad Abidian Receives Accolades
Mohammad Abidian received the Graduate Student Silver Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) and his article in Advanced Materials was selected as the cover and most popular article of 2006. Mohammad was awarded the the Graduate Student Silver Award during the Materials Research Society (MRS) spring 2007 event for his contribution "Aligned Conducting Polymer Nanotubes for the Controlled Release of Neurotrophins and Contact Guidance of Regenerating Neurons" - his thesis work conducted in Prof, David Martin's lab in MSE.
His paper (Abidian et. al. "Conducting Polymer Nanotubes for Controlled Drug Release" Adv. Mater. 18, 4, 405-409) was published in Advanced Materials one of the high impact journals (impact factor 9.2). This paper was selected as the cover illustration of volume 18 issue 4 in 2006. Also, according to WILEY VCH publisher for Advanced Materials this paper was one of the most popular and accessed articles in 2006-2007.
Posted on March 18, 2008, 4:29 pm
Sheereen Majd Selected for Barbour Scholarship
BME Graduate student Sheereen Majd has been selected to recieve the Barbour Scholarship ("which recognizes women of the highest academic and professional caliber") for 08-09. The Barbour Scholarship program was established in 1914 at the University of Michigan to train young women in modern science, medicine, mathematics and other specialties critical to the development of their native lands.
Posted on March 12, 2008, 11:32 am
BME Ph.D students finish as finalists in business plan competiton "Nanotechnologies 2007"
University of Michigan graduate students Jungwoo Lee and Meghan Cuddihy were named one of the finalist teams in the "Nanotechnologies 2007" international business plan competition. Although they did not take home the top prize, the team, along with the help of their advisor Professor Nicholas Kotov, finished as one of seven finalist teams from around the world.
Posted on March 11, 2008, 9:43 pm
BME 599 Teams Awarded External Funds to Develop Prototypes
Student design teams from the BME 599 Graduate Innovative Design class have been awarded external funds to develop their prototypes. Two groups from the BME 599 class were awarded $500 (per group) from the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Dare To Dream Grant Program on February 15, 2008.
Those 2 teams are:
Moduline
Daniel Greenwald
Jeffrey Meng
Auresa Thomas
Bryan Callow
Fontis Medical:
Matthew Gibson
Erin Purcell
Takashi Yoshida
The Fontis Medical group (from the BME 599 Graduate Innovative Design class) finished first place in the COE Center for Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition. The group members will share the $1000 first prize award. The group also won a spot on the Bay Area Innovators trip in February.
Two teams from BME 599 won $500 Stipends from the BMEidea Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award. Those two teams are:NeuroSensor
Sean Xuan Li
Tia Chakraborty
Sunjay Dodani
Morphocor:
Kelly Lynn Baker
Chloe Marie Funkhouser
Heidi Nicole Howes
Christina
Dahlin
One team was awarded $3,000 from the UM COE Center for Entrepreneurship:
Fontis Medical:
Matthew Donivan Gibson
Erin Kay Purcell
Takashi Daniel Yoshida
Posted on February 21, 2008, 12:00 am
Luyun Chen Wins Outstanding Paper Award
BME PhD candidate, Luyun Chen won the Basic Science Outstanding Paper Award at the 2007 American Urogynecological Society (AUGS) annual meeting in Hollywood, FL. The research paper is entitled: "3-D Finite Element Model of Anterior Vaginal Wall
Posted on November 21, 2007, 12:00 am