Bioengineering Weekly Announcements
December 4 - December 8, 2006

 

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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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December 4-8, 2006

Examinations
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**Dean Stevens
    Qualifying Exam
    Tuesday, December 5 at 3 p.m.
    Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
    "Microfluidic Cell Separation based on Surface Antigen Density"
    Drs. Paul Yager (advisor), Xingde Li (chair), Wendy Thomas, and Norm Dovichi (Chemistry)

**Maisie Wang
    PhD Final Exam
    Thursday, December 7 at 9:30 a.m.
    Foege N403
    "Ultra-High Resolution Imaging and Artery-Vein Separation of Blood Pool Contrast-
        Enhanced MR Aniography"
    Drs. David Haynor (chair and advisor; Radiology and adjunct in Bioengineering), Jeffrey Maki
        (advisor; Radiology), Paolo Vicini, Martin Kushmerick, Dana Dabiri (GSR; Aeronautics and
        Astronautics)


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, December 7 from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m.
    Benson 117
    Scott Henry, Bioengineering graduate student
        "pH-Sensitive PSMA Copolymers for Intracellular Delivery"
    Kenny K. Tran, ChemE graduate student
        "Probing and Modeling Spatial Distributions of Particulate Vaccines at the Respiratory Tract"

**Medical Imaging (599X)
    Monday, December 4 from 4:30 to 5:50 p.m.
    Auth Conference Room (503)
    Unmin Bae, research assistant in EE, and Dr. Manjiri Dighe, assistant professor in Radiology
    "Thyroid Elastography using Carotid Artery Pulsation:  Correlation with fine needle aspiration biopsy"

**Nanotechnology (599Y)
    Tuesday, December 5 from 12:30 to1:20 p.m.
    Bagley 260
    Dr. Xiaogang Peng
    University of Arkansas Department of Chemistry
    Bandgap and Composition Engineered Colloidal Nanocrystals"