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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS for June 12-June 16, 2006
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Graduation
Examinations
Congratulations

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Graduation
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The departmental graduation ceremony Friday evening featured speakers Dr. Chris Neils, Jennifer Patterson, Dainia Edwards, and Joshua Rusk. Dr. Paolo Vicini received the Distinguished Teacher/Mentor Award, Colleen Irvin was Outstanding Staff, Floyd Karp was Outstanding TA, and Elain Fu received the Special Award. We had 29 BS, 14 MME, 6 MS, and 19 PhD graduates for fall 2005 through summer 2006. The Foege lobby was packed for the reception following the ceremony. Thank you to all who helped make the event special, and congratulations to our graduates.


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EXAMINATIONS
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Wenbo Luo
PhD General Exam
Thursday, June 15 at 3:30 p.m.
WRF Conference Room (Foege N230)
“Detection of Vascular Bleeding with Ultrasound”
Drs. Shahram Vaezy (chair), Lawrence Crum, Chun Yuan (Radiology; adjunct in Bioengineering), Frederick
            Mann (Radiology), Thomas Matula (Applied Physics Lab), and Michael Chang (GSR; Rehabilitation
            Medicine)


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CONGRATULATIONS
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Dr. Siddhartha Sikdar, a senior fellow in Dr. Yongmin Kim’s lab, received a postdoctoral fellowship from the AHA’s Pacific Mountain Affiliate Research Committee, to begin July 1. The title of his project is “Ultrasonic Doppler Vibrometry: Novel Method for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease Using Cardiac Tissue Vibrations.” A total of 25 applications (15 percent) were funded out of 171 applications reviewed.

Michael Cobb, a Bioengineering PhD candidate in Dr. Xingde Li’s lab, received the Biomedical Optics Student Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA). Michael’s presentation was ranked among the top three and earned him an award of $500, funded by the NSF.

A paper Dr. Xingde Li's group had published in the April 15 issue of Optics Letters was summarized in May’s Biophotonics International in an article titled “Whirling-fiber endoscope allows two-photon imaging.”


Program on Technology Commercialization (PTC) Fellows for this summer (June 16-September 15) have been chosen. Each fellow will receive a $10,000 award, and each team will develop a business plan for a UW Bioengineering technology. Congratulations to Ismail Tutar (EE) and Jason Thane (non-matriculated), whose project is "Intraoperative Prostate Brachytherapy Dosimetry"; Michele Solano (Nursing Science), Yang Mo Yoo (Bioengineering), and Anup Agarwal (EE), "Screening and Monitoring of Diabetic Ulcers with Ultrasound"; and Shivang Dave (Bioengineering) and Saumil Gandhi (ME) "Intraocular Lens Drug Delivery Haptic Sleeves to Mitigate Post-Operative Infections."