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Three UT students were recognized today with Whitaker Foundation Professional Development Awards. The students are Nicki Bergmann, a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering, and Brock Thomas, a graduate student whose research is of biomedical interest, both received the grand prize, and Kristy Wood, a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering who received an honorable mention.

For the fourth consecutive year The University of Texas at Austin, with the generous support of the University Co-op, recognized nine UT undergraduates for superior scholarly or creative achievement.

The Texas Exes awarded seven outstanding student leaders with the President's Leadership Award

Kristy Wood, a BME doctoral candidate, has been selected to receive the 2005-06 William S. Livingston Fellowship.

The College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards evaluation committee, consisting of nine representatives from staff and faculty, have selected six recipients for 2005.

Four Biomedical Engineering teams made it to the finals of The University of Texas Idea to Product (I2P) competition placing 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in the finals on Saturday.

Kenneth Diller, Chairman of BME, and Nicholas Peppas, professor of BME, were elected to the inaugural class of the Biomedical Engineering Society Fellows.

Since 2000, Dr. Christine Schmidt has been cited 46 times for her article Acellular Vascular Tissues: Natural Biomaterials for Tissue Repair and Tissue Engineering that appeared in the journal Biomaterials.

Two BME professors, Wolfgang Frey and Konstantin Sokolov, are lecturers of a special course offered this summer by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Katheryne Wilson recently received the Young Investigator Award at the 2011 World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC), held in San Diego, California, September 7–10.