FACULTY NEWS
Associate Professor Naomi Chesler received a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in pulmonary hemodynamics and right ventricular function modeling and analysis from February 2009 to June 2009 at the University of Ghent in Belgium.
Professor Susan Hagness and her co-authors received the IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering 2007 Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, “Confocal microwave imaging for breast cancer detection: Localization of tumors in three dimension,” in its August 2002 issue. It was the most-cited journal paper during the last five years.
Assistant Professor Hongrui Jiang, a BME affiliate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a 2008 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award of $400,000. He aims to develop hemispherical arrays of micro-lenses, much like an insect’s eye, giving a wider field of view for medical imaging applications, such as laparoscopic surgery or endoscopy.
The American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) elected Professor Weiyuan John Kao to its college of fellows.
Assistant Professor Kristyn Masters received the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award for 2008 from the American Society for Engineering Education Biomedical Engineering Division. In addition, the ASEE North Midwest Section selected Masters to receive its 2008 Outstanding New Educator Award.
The Materials Research Society chose “New materials to help with brain aneurysm surgery” as the top talk and paper presented at the 2007 MRS fall meeting, which drew more than 5,200 attendees from around the world. Masters, Associate Professor Wendy Crone and Neurosurgery Resident Roham Moftakhar collaborated on the research.
Assistant Professor Bill Murphy received $245,000 from the AO Research Foundation for a three-year project in which he aims to generate materials that induce tissue regeneration in large bone defects.
Associate Professor Darryl Thelen, Silvia Blemker of the University of Virginia, Assistant Professor Bryan Heiderscheit and Assistant Professor Scott Reeder received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) to investigate the influence of muscle injury on in vivo mechanics and function.
America Online (AOL) Instant Messaging added a real-time text function, allowing users to see each other’s text live as it is typed. The option resulted from a collaboration among AOL; the college’s Trace Center, directed by Professor Gregg Vanderheiden; and the Gallaudet University Technology Access Program.
Professor Emeritus John Webster received a two-year, $750,000, phase 2 small business innovation research grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a miniature monitor that will record changes in electrical skin conductance that occur because of sweating during a hot flash. The monitor will help physicians test drugs that could alleviate hot flashes.
“Silicon-substrate intracortical microelectrode arrays for long-term recording of neuronal spike activity in cerebral cortex,” a paper co-authored by Assistant Professor Justin Williams, earned the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE) 2007 Outstanding Paper Award. The paper was the most-cited paper in TNSRE during the last five years.
A team led by Professor John Yin received a two-year $600,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop new ways to measure the infectivity of viruses, with a focus on influenza A virus. Yin is collaborating with Professor David Beebe and Bellbrook Labs LLC, a Wisconsin company that specializes in microscale biological testing.
