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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
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April 2-6, 2007


Congratulations
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**Congratulations to our three new NSF fellows, Shivang Dave (Dr. Xiaohu Gao), Becky
    Penkala (Dr. Cecilia Giachelli and Dr. Stephen Kim, Surgery and Bioengineering adjunct),
    and Justin Shaffer (Dr. Samantha Harris)! We are also proud of our BS alum, Christopher
    Pirie, another new fellow who is now at MIT.


Student Examination
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**Jamie Bergen
    General exam
    Monday, April 2 at 1 p.m. in the Auth Conference Room (Foege N503)
    "Understanding and Overcoming the Intracellular Barriers Associated with Nonviral Gene
        Delivery to Neurons"
    Drs. Suzie Pun (chair), Linda Wordeman (GSR, Physiology and Biophysics), Phil Horner
        (Neurological Surgery), Pat Stayton, and Paul Yager


Seminars
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**Biomaterials (511)
    Thursday, April 5, 3:30-4:20 p.m. in Benson 117
    Donald Responte, Bioengineering undergraduate student
        "Polyurethane Coated Stents with Reduced Thrombogenicity"
    Derek Mortisen, Chemical Engineering graduate student
        "Scaffolds as Functional Templates for Cardiac Tissue Engineering"

**Nanotechnology (599F)
    Tuesday, April 3, 12:30-1:20 p.m. in Bagley 260
    Dr. Erin Sheets, assistant professor
    Pennsylvania State University Department of Chemistry
    "Life as a Lipid: Rafts, Dynamics and Interactions"

**Bioengineering (599O)
    Thursday, April 5, 12:30-1:20 p.m. in the Bioengineering Seminar Room
    Dr. Bernhard Weigl
    Group leader for PATH Diagnostic Development Teams and affiliate professor in UW
         Bioengineering
    "Global Health Technology Development and Introduction — Examples and Challenges"

**CSE Candidate*
    Wednesday, April 4, 10:30 in HSB T435
    Dr. Garrett Stanley, associate professor
    Harvard University, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
    "Reading the Neural Code: Representations and Transformations in the Natural Sensory
        World"

*Possible joint or affiliate appointment in Bioengineering; Dr. Albert Folch is coordinating this for us.


Other
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**UW Bioengineering’s score in the U.S. News and World Report rankings for
    biomedical/bioengineering graduate programs moved up from 4.4 last year to 4.5 this year.
    The scores in this category for the top five institutions this year are Johns Hopkins University
    (Whiting) (MD): 4.7; Georgia Institute of Technology: 4.6; University of California–San Diego
    (Jacobs): 4.6; University of Washington: 4.5; Duke University (NC): 4.3.

**Nominations for the 2007 Bioengineering Awards should be submitted by May 11 to Ruth
    Woods via email at rwoods@u.washington.edu or via hardcopy in her mailbox. You may
    nominate an outstanding TA, Teacher/Mentor, or Staff Member, or you may create a category
    for a person or team. Provide specific details explaining your nominee’s special contributions
    to the department.