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On April 28th, BME junior Peter (Yicun) Jian received a University Coop/George H. Mitchell Award for his paper in Advances in Bionanotechnology entitled "Temperature-Sensitive Polymer-Gold Nanocomposites as Intelligent Therapeutic Systems."
David Beavers, Rebecca Rosenberger, Sheena Black, Lena Dixit, and Ajay Mody were notified recently that they were selected as 2006 Presidential Endowed Scholarship recipients!
Congratulations to three BME Graduate Students who received fellowships from the Office of Graduate Studies for the 2006-2007 school year!
Tania Betancourt received a Miller Fellowship for $17,000, Shriram Sethuraman received a University Continuing Fellowship for $16,000, and Min Soon Kim received a Continuing Bruton Fellowship in the amount of $1000. These fellowships go to current UT graduate students who have demonstrated an outstanding record of research at the University.
On April 5-7, 2006, Hunter Lauten and Kristy Wood, both BME PhD students in their last year of studies, attended the Ninth European Symposium on Controlled Release in Noordwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands.
Jim Pollard has been selected from over two hundred nominees to be one of thirty University of Texas at Austin Staff members to receive a 2006 Staff Excellence Award. This award carries with it a $1500 honorarium to be presented May 2, 2006, at the Annual Staff Recognition Program and President's Reception at the Frank C. Erwin Jr. Special Events Center.
On the occasion of the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of the journal "Biomaterials", its publisher "Elsevier" recognized the top 25 papers published during these last 25 years.
Prof. Mia K. Markey has been recognized with a UT Student Engineering Council Faculty Appreciation Award for the Biomedical Engineering Department.
Cindy Zimmerman of the BME Undergraduate Office is to receive a College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award!
Professor Nicholas Peppas has just won a prestigious national award, the 2006 Dow Chemical Engineering Award and Lectureship of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Mia K. Markey has been selected for the 2006 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award.