Bioengineering News

Bashir Measures Cells with Cantilever Array

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:00:00 CDT

Dr. Rashid Bashir, Professor of Bioengineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has advanced lab-on-a-chip technology by developing a microarray of silicon cantilevers which can measure the growth of individual cells. Dr. Bashir heads the Micro and Nanotechnologies Laboratory on the University of Illinois campus.

First Class of Bioengineering Students Graduate

Sam Smucker — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 CDT

The Department of Bioengineering celebrated the graduation of students from the inaugural class of undergraduates (enrolled in fall 2004). Sixteen students received the first Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering degrees conferred by the Department in the College of Engineering Commencement ceremony on May 11, 2008.

Cheng Ouyang Receives Award for Research on Brain Function

Sam Smucker — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:00 CDT

Cheng Ouyang, Ph.D. student in Bioengineering, was recognized at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine conference held in Toronto, Canada May 3rd-9th, 2008, for her poster entitled, 'Volumetric Blood Flow Rate Measurement by Flow Enhancement of Signal Intensity.' The poster won third prize in the area of Brain Function. It was one of over 2800 posters submitted to the conference.

Dr. Bruce C. Wheeler Celebrates Retirement from Illinois

Sam Smucker — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 CDT

Dr. Bruce C. Wheeler, the first Interim-Head for the Bioengineering Department, will retire after 28 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His career at Illinois is represented by ground breaking scientific endeavors involving signal processing in neurons as a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. His impact on undergraduate education and student-faculty relations has been a cornerstone of his administrative activities. Reception Photos

Dr. Rohit Bhargava confirms Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible

By Sam Smucker, Department of Bioengineering — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CDT

Bioengineering Professor Rohit Bhargava is part of a team of researchers at Illinois who have reported a breakthrough for simultaneous structural and chemical characterization of samples at the femtogram level (a femtogram is one quadrillionth of a gram) and below. This news has received wide-spread press in the scientific community. Nanotechnology and Development News, (March 30, 2008), Chemie.De Information Services (Berlin, Germany, March 31, 2008), Medical News Today (Bexhill-on-Sea, England, March 29, 2008), Science Centric (April 1 2008), LabTechnologist.com (April 2, 2008)

Dr. Bhargava has also recently received attention for his translational research on cancer tumor identification with infrared spectroscopy.

Prof. Michael F. Insana Named Interim Head

By Sam Smucker, Department of Bioengineering — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT

Dean Ilesanmi Adesida has named Prof. Michael F. Insana as Interim Head of the Department of Bioengineering replacing Prof. Bruce Wheeler who had been Interim Head since 2004. Prof. Insana is also the Director of Graduate Studies. Currently, there is an open search for a new department head. Prof. Wheeler has accepted a faculty position at the University of Florida in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. We thank Prof. Wheeler for his years of service to the department.

Bioengineering Named as Key Growth Area in the College of Engineering

By Sam Smucker, Department of Bioengineering — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT

College of Engineering Dean Ilesanmi Adesida recently acknowledged developing a strong Bioengineering Department as one of the five key goals for the future of the College. "We see a strong bioengineering department as vital to leveraging faculty strengths across all of our departments, and to establishing engineering's leadership in the campus-wide Translational Health Initiative and the Integrated Sciences for Health Initiative," Dean Adesida wrote in a recent message to faculty and staff.

Current plans anticipate the department growing to 15 Bioengineering faculty and maintaining the more than 50 affiliate faculty serving 200 to 300 undergraduates and 70 to 100 graduate students. Read the complete message from Dean Adesida (pdf).

Zhong Receives Xerox Award

By Sam Smucker, Department of Bioengineering — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT

Dr. Sheng Zhong, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering is the recipient of a 2008 Xerox Award for Faculty Research. This award recognizes outstanding research during the past year by assistant professors in the College of Engineering.The award will be presented at the 44th Annual Engineering Awards Convocation on April 25th, 2008.

Goluch Earns First Bioengineering Ph.D.

By Sam Smucker, Department of Bioengineering — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 CST

Edgar Goluch (pictured here with Dr. Bruce Wheeler) is the first student to earn a Ph.D. from the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. Dr. Goluch's dissertation was entitled, "Chip-Based Detection of Protein Cancer Markers." The chair of his dissertation committee was Dr. Chang Liu.

Dr. Goluch has accepted a postdoctoral research position with Dr. Serge Lemay and Prof. Dr. Cees Dekker in the Molecular Biophysics Group at the Kavli Institute of NanoScience, Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Bioengineering Undergraduates Win Scholarships

By Sam Smucker, Department of Bioengineering — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 CDT

Several Bioengineering students won positions in the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program. REU places students in research labs at nationally recognized research universities for the summer.