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BIOENGINEERING ANNOUNCEMENTS for August 7 - August 11, 2006
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CONGRATULATIONS
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Dr. Suzie Pun received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in a ceremony at the White House on July 26. This is “the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers beginning independent careers.” Only six engineers in the nation were selected for the award, which provides up to five years’ research funding.

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EXAMS
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Jinfe Yu
Master’s final exam
Tuesday, August 8 at 1:30 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
“Optimization of the Focal Efficiency for Plano-Concave HIFU Transducer by Varying Aluminum
    Lens Thickness”
Drs. Shahram Vaezy (chair) and Larry Crum

Anthony Norman
Master’s final exam
Wednesday, August 9 at 1:30 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)
“Design, Fabrication and Validation of a DPPH/PS Nanoparticle Phantom Target for Magnetic
    Resonance Force Microscopy”
Drs. John Sidles (chair; Orthopaedics), Joseph Garbini (ME), and Xingde Li


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SEMINARS
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“Why Image the Heart?”
Dr. James Caldwell
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and adjunct in Bioengineering and Radiology
Tuesday, August 8 at 4:30 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)

“The Pediatric ICU: a complex interface between engineering and medicine”
Dr. Kenneth Schenkman
UW Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Bioengineering adjunct
Thursday, August 10 at 3 p.m.
Bioengineering Seminar Room (Foege N130A)