News
Dr. James Tunnell receives the Coulter Foundation Early Career Award
- Monday, 21 January 2008 00:00
Professor James W. Tunnell has received a Phase II Early Career Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation to support his work in developing optical spectroscopy for the early detection of skin cancer.
Professor Diller is Editor to Top Ranked BME Journal
- Monday, 14 April 2008 01:00
Professor Ken Diller has completed ten years as Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering (ARBE).
Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman selected to participate in the 6th Annual NAFKI Conference
- Friday, 28 March 2008 01:00
Dr. Muhammad H. Zaman, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to participate in the 6th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference this year in November.
Dr. Andrew Dunn has been awarded a prestigious Dana Foundation grant for Neuroimaging
- Thursday, 16 October 2008 01:00
Professor Andrew Dunn has been awarded a prestigious Dana Foundation grant for Neuroimaging.
Tunnell Receives $1.51 Million for Nanoparticle Cancer Research
- Monday, 12 May 2008 01:00
Prof. James Tunnell is the recipient of a 5-year, $1.51 million National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute R01 grant titled, “Metal Nanoparticle Mediated Imaging, Targeting, and Treatment of Cancer.”
Dr. Nicholas Peppas selected as one of the One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era
- Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:00
Nicholas Peppas recognized by AIChE
Schmidt develops Detergent to Promote Nerve Healing
- Tuesday, 08 April 2008 01:00
A detergent solution developed at The University of Texas at Austin that treats donor nerve grafts to circumvent an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around the country.
Dr. Nicholas Peppas elected President of the IUSBSE
- Friday, 26 September 2008 01:00
Dr. Nicholas Peppas has been elected President of the International Union of Societies of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE).
Dr. Christine Schmidt is recipient of the Chairmen's Distinguished Life Sciences Award
- Monday, 09 June 2008 01:00
Dr. Christine Schmidt is the recipient of the first Chairmen's Distinguished Life Sciences Award, one of four new Life Sciences Awards sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Zaman Receives Outstanding Teaching Award
- Thursday, 18 September 2008 01:00
This award recognizes outstanding classroom teaching by an assistant professor to promote and encourage exceptional teaching in a faculty member's early career.
Dr. Nicholas Peppas elected to ASEE Academy of Fellows
- Thursday, 25 September 2008 01:00
Dr. Nicholas Peppas has been elected to the American Society for Engineering Education Academy of Fellows.
ACS honors Dr. Pengyu Ren with HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
- Friday, 22 August 2008 01:00
Dr. Ren has been selected as one of four recipients of the Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS), Division of Computers in Chemistry (COMP).
Gel-like material shows promise as oral insulin pill for diabetes
- Friday, 22 August 2008 01:00
Biomedical engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report development of a gel-like material that could help speed the long-awaited arrival of insulin that can be taken in a pill by mouth, rather than with injections. The study appears in the April 14 issue of the American Chemical Society's Biomacromolecules, a monthly journal.
Markey to Receive 2008 IMSA Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award
- Saturday, 27 September 2008 01:00
Dr. Mia K. Markey will be the 2008 recipient of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) Alumni Distinguished Leadership Award.
Peppas Receives Pierre Galletti Award
- Friday, 22 August 2008 01:00
Professor Nicholas A. Peppas received the prestigious Pierre Galletti Award at the 2008 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 21st.