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James Tunnell was recently selected to receive the 2010 Rice University Bioengineering Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award.

Congratulations to biomedical engineering graduate student Eileen Dawson, who was recently awarded a cancer research traineeship through the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).

Yuxuan Wang, a biochemistry undergraduate senior working with Biomedical Engineering Professor Christine Schmidt and Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Andrew Ellington, has won the $20,000 grand prize in the 10th annual University Co-op George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence for undergraduate students at The University of Texas at Austin.

BME Professor Konstantin (Kostia) Sokolov has received a new NIH R01 grant on “Biodegradable Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging and Therapy.”

As a logistics officer in the U.S. Marine Corps during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Kimberly Homan specialized in leading convoys and directing supplies and equipment to where they needed to be.

The Journal of Controlled Release was published in 1984 by Elsevier.

The nation's leading experts in biomedical engineering met in Austin Oct. 6-9 to network with top faculty and students from around the world, to collaborate on new research and to discuss the future of biomedical engineering, one of the fastest growing fields in the nation.

Min Qu, a biomedical engineering graduate student working with Professor Stanislav Emelianov in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory, has received the “Best Poster Award” in the Photons Plus Ultrasound conference at the 2010 SPIE Photonics West symposium, held in San Francisco, California.

Professor Nicholas A. Peppas has received a new research grant from the Biomedical Engineering Program of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems.

Natalie Craik, a Biomedical Engineering and Plan II Honors undergraduate student, has been honored as one of two winners of the 2009-2010 Larry Temple Scholarship.