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2008 Biomedical Engineering in the News


BME Faculty Member receives Zumberge Fund Award
July 10, 2008
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."
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Ellis Meng wins the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award
June 19, 2008
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BME Graduate Student Arvind Iyer Wins 1st Place  in Wonderland Award
June 09, 2008
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.
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Meng Team Develops New Ocular Drug Delivery Device
June 09, 2008
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
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Dr. Michael Khoo elected to the IEEE-EMBS Administrative Committee
May 23, 2008
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) is the world's largest international society of Biomedical Engineers.
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BME seniors receive University, Viterbi and Department  Awards
May 06, 2008
The accomplishments of five Biomedical Engineering Seniors were recognized at the Undergraduate Viterbi Awards ceremony.
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BME Seniors recognized at the USC Student Recognition awards
May 05, 2008
Congratulations to the six BME seniors receiving USC Student Recognition awards!
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Professor Kirk Shung Receives 2008 Viterbi School Senior Research Award
April 29, 2008
Professor Kirk Shung was named today as a recipient of the 2008 Viterbi School Senior Research Award. Dr. Shung was cited as "one of the true pioneers of biomedical ultrasonics".
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BME student research highlighted at 2008 Grodins Symposium
April 10, 2008
The 12th Annual Fred S. Grodins Symposium of graduate student research from the Viterbi School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering took place on April 5 at a new venue this year – the Galen Center. As in the past, this year’s event was organized by a committee of BME doctoral students selected by department chair Michael Khoo.
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What Gives Us Fingertip Dexterity?
February 06, 2008
Dr. Valero-Cuevas traces precision hand manipulation skills to specialized neural circuits in the brain.
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