Dr. Dong Song, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a 1-year grant by the USC Zumberge Fund to initiate a research project entitled "Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Hippocampal System Function during Learned Behavior and Memory Formation."

Wonderland Awards commemorate Lewis Carroll's works. This year's winner, Arvind Iyer, wrote a series of 18 limericks similar to Carroll's style to receive the $1,500 first-place prize.

Dr. Ellis Meng and her interdisciplinary team have invented a simple polymer device that attaches to the eye and delivers drugs to the site of disease via a flexible tube inserted into the side of the eye. For more, see http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2008/07/eye_drug_delivery.asp

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the world's largest international society of Biomedical Engineers.

The accomplishments of five Biomedical Engineering Seniors were recognized at the Undergraduate Viterbi Awards ceremony.