Outstanding Academic Achievements
Undergraduates
AcouSense Team Wins Second Place at iCAN
A team from Tingrui Pan’s lab, composed of two BME undergrads (Ryan Harake, Karan Sandhu) and two graduate students (Baoqing Nie, Siyuan Xing) won second prize ($2000) in the 2011 International Contest of Application in Nano/Micro Competition (iCAN). Thirty teams from 15 different countries participated in this big competition held in Beijing, China from June 5th to June 7th. There were 2 first prizes and 4 second prizes. The team’s project is AcouSense- a Telemedical Sensing Platform for Sleep Apnea Monitoring. The platform provides portable, inexpensive and continuous monitoring for the sleep apnea disorders. It was also the senior design project for the two undergrads.
iGem Team Wins Trophy for “Best in Track”
The team competed in ‘foundational advances,’ one of a number of available tracks within the competition. For their project, they decided to expand the range of ‘kit parts’ available to would-be genetic engineers.
Graduate Students
Ying Wang
Ying Wang Wins BMES 2011 Graduate Student Award
Ying Wang, a student in Scott Simon’s lab, is a winner of the BMES 2011 Graduate Student Awards (Extended Abstract). The awards are designed to provide encouragement and recognition for students’ academic achievements. The BMES Awards Committee selects up to 5 graduate students on the basis of scientific merit, originality, and quality of written presentation. Graduate Student awards include a certificate, a complimentary registration for the Annual Meeting, and a stipend of $500 to assist with travel expenses. Ying received her award at the BMES Annual Business Meeting in Hartford, Conn, Oct. 12-15.
Rui Liu Wins SAS Graduate Student Award
Rui Liu, a BME graduate student working at the Center for Biophotonics under the supervision of Drs. Dennis Matthews and James Chan, has been chosen as one of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s (SAS) 2011 Graduate Student Award winners for his outstanding research in both the technology development and applications of laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy for single biological cell analysis. The award consists of a plaque or scroll and an expense-paid trip to FACSS in Reno, Nevada this October to accept the award. The award was formally presented at the 2011 Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) meeting in Reno, NV on Tuesday, October 4 during the SAS Wine and Cheese Reception in the Grand Sierra Hotel. Rui Liu delivered a talk about his recent work during the SAS Award Symposium. Rui also received a 2011 SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics and the 2011 Fellowship for Eighth Annual Coherent Raman Microscopy Workshop.
Sherrod Deverse received the ARCS fellowship and a BMES travel award.
Team ZinApt, composed of Mike Howland (PhD Chem Engineering ’10?, currently a post-doc for Dr. Revzin), Julia Choi, Tim Kwa, and Brian Eller (JD UC Davis Law School ’11) were finalists in the UC Davis Big Bang! business plan competition and won a Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Commercialization Plan award for $15,000. The technology is being developed in the Revzin lab and the team is advised by Dr. Revzin and Greg McParland, an “entrepreneurship-in-readiness” mentor, connected through the PFI program.
Jen Neugenbauer received the College of Biological Sciences Dean’s Mentorship Award, May 2011 AND Professors for the Future Scholar, 2010-2011
