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Professor and Department Chair Nicholas A Peppas and Adjunct Professor Lisa Brannon-Peppas were elected as Fellows of the Controlled Release Society (CRS) in its inaugural class.

UT researchers are developing novel computer-aided detection and diagnosis strategies (CAD) for breast cancer.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research recently selected Christine Schmidt as an American Competiveness and Innovation (ACI) Fellow for 2010.

The Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) recently awarded undergraduate biomedical engineering student Oscar Ayala with a $1500 Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering.

Professor John Zhang has been appointed an Assistant Editor of the journal Biomedical Microdevices.

The Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) recently awarded Bo Wang and Yun-Sheng Chen scholarships.

The Excelsior team, comprised of biomedical engineering’s Lucas Artusi, Blayne Kettlewell, and Amy O’Neil, along with business major Stephanie Nixon, won first prize at the 2nd Annual Roden Case Competition in February.

Two research articles published recently in Nanotechnology [20, 23,5201, (2009)], and Applied Physics Letters [96, 131109, (2010)], featured Professor John X.J. Zhang and his associates in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Society for Biomaterials has selected Charlie Drinnan and Lonnissa Nguyen to receive the organization’s Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR).

Dr. Thomas Milner, the Marion E. Forsman Centennial Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Dr. Marc D. Feldman Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and an Adjunct Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Texas at Austin were recently awarded the 2010 Chancellor’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award from The University of Texas System (UT System).