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Mussels inspire innovative new adhesive for surgery

1/9/13

Mussels can be a mouthwatering meal, but the chemistry that lets mussels stick to underwater surfaces may also provide a highly adhesive wound closure and more effective healing from surgery.

In recent decades bioadhesives, tissue sealants and hemostatic agents became the favored products to control bleeding and promote tissue healing after surgery. However, many of them have side effects or other problems, including an inability to perform well on wet tissue. To solve that problem, Jian Yang, associate professor of bioengineering at Penn State, and other research team members looked at nature.

American Cancer Society awards $720K grant to professor

12/21/12

Siyang Zheng, assistant professor of bioengineering, has been awarded a $720,000 grant from the American Cancer Society.

The four-year grant will allow Zheng to investigate how metastatic cancer cells release circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that travel through the blood and invade different parts of the body, a process that accounts for more than 90 percent of cancer related deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

Zheng's laboratory has taken a novel approach to obtaining CTCs, a challenging process, using an array of flexible microsprings to improve the filtration process. This could allow testing of drugs to measure their benefit without exposing a patient to the unnecessary cost or toxic effects of chemotherapy.

Bioengineering's Zheng wins NIH New Innovator Award

9/17/12

Siyang Zheng, the Dorothy Quiggle Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, was one of 51 researchers from across the country to be named a winner of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award, the agency announced on Sept. 13.

Bioengineer Lipowsky wins Poiseuille Award

8/3/12

Herbert Lipowsky, professor of bioengineering, was named winner of the 2012 Poiseuille Award for his pioneering contributions to studies of vivo blood rheology in the microcirculation.

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For bioengineering senior Tanella, it's a marathon to make THON happen

2/13/12

When Penn State student Elaine Tanella heads to campus, she knows that she is going to have a busy day; not because of a heavy course load, but because she runs the largest student-run philanthropy in the world: the Penn State Dance Marathon, commonly known as THON. A fifth-year bioengineering senior, she serves as the 2012 THON overall chairwoman, a year-long position which includes responsibilities such as outlining goals and new ideas for this weekend's upcoming dance marathon (Feb. 17-19), as well as overseeing more than 15,000 volunteers who make THON happen.

Nov. 28: Alumnus Michael Rainbow to share his biomedical research

11/16/11

Penn State Behrend alumnus Dr. Michael Rainbow, of the class of 2004, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School's Spaulding National Running Center Lab, will give a public overview of the lab's current research on Monday, Nov. 28. Rainbow's presentation, "Wrists, Knees and Baseball Bats: Research in an Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering Lab" will be held at 2:30 p.m. in 101 Otto Behrend Science on the campus of Penn State Behrend. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Fifteen engineering students receive NSF graduate research fellowships

4/18/11

Fifteen students from the College of Engineering recently were named winners of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in the fields within the NSF's mission.

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Engineering Project Design Showcase winners announced

12/11/10

A project to reduce helicopter blade noise and a supply chain shipping analysis took the top awards in the fall 2010 College of Engineering Project Design Showcase, held Dec. 9 at the HUB's Alumni Hall.

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Homecoming king, queen reflect on new royal status

10/12/10

Justin Ross and Danielle DaSilva were both shocked to have been nominated for the 2010 Homecoming Court. Ross, a mechanical engineering senior and president of the Blue Band, considered himself a "band geek" and didn't know his friends were nominating him until after the fact. DaSilva, a bioengineering senior and president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), also felt humbled when her friends secretly nominated her for court through a Facebook group.

2010 Homecoming Court includes two engineering students

10/4/10

Despite their numerous time-consuming commitments and heavy course loads, two engineering students have found the time for one more activity this week: homecoming court. Justin Ross, mechanical engineering senior, and Danielle DaSilva, bioengineering senior, both hold significant leadership positions in their respective extracurriculars. Ross serves as president of the Blue Band, and DaSilva is president of Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

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Bioengineering faculty member to go distance to honor wife's memory

10/4/10

For Andrew Webb, professor of bioengineering, establishing a scholarship to encourage women in engineering was only the start of his effort to honor his late wife's memory. To promote awareness of the scholarship, Webb plans to run the local Tussey Mountainback 50-mile ultramarathon on Oct. 16.

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Mussel

Mussels inspire innovative new adhesive for surgery

1/9/13

Mussels can be a mouthwatering meal, but the chemistry that lets mussels stick to underwater surfaces may also provide a highly adhesive wound closure and more effective healing from surgery.

In recent decades bioadhesives, tissue sealants and hemostatic agents became the favored products to control bleeding and promote tissue healing after surgery. However, many of them have side effects or other problems, including an inability to perform well on wet tissue. To solve that problem, Jian Yang, associate professor of bioengineering at Penn State, and other research team members looked at nature.

American Cancer Society awards $720K grant to professor

12/21/12

Siyang Zheng, assistant professor of bioengineering, has been awarded a $720,000 grant from the American Cancer Society.

The four-year grant will allow Zheng to investigate how metastatic cancer cells release circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that travel through the blood and invade different parts of the body, a process that accounts for more than 90 percent of cancer related deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

Zheng's laboratory has taken a novel approach to obtaining CTCs, a challenging process, using an array of flexible microsprings to improve the filtration process. This could allow testing of drugs to measure their benefit without exposing a patient to the unnecessary cost or toxic effects of chemotherapy.

Bioengineering's Zheng wins NIH New Innovator Award

9/17/12

Siyang Zheng, the Dorothy Quiggle Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, was one of 51 researchers from across the country to be named a winner of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award, the agency announced on Sept. 13.

Bioengineer Lipowsky wins Poiseuille Award

8/3/12

Herbert Lipowsky, professor of bioengineering, was named winner of the 2012 Poiseuille Award for his pioneering contributions to studies of vivo blood rheology in the microcirculation.

Untitled

For bioengineering senior Tanella, it's a marathon to make THON happen

2/13/12

When Penn State student Elaine Tanella heads to campus, she knows that she is going to have a busy day; not because of a heavy course load, but because she runs the largest student-run philanthropy in the world: the Penn State Dance Marathon, commonly known as THON. A fifth-year bioengineering senior, she serves as the 2012 THON overall chairwoman, a year-long position which includes responsibilities such as outlining goals and new ideas for this weekend's upcoming dance marathon (Feb. 17-19), as well as overseeing more than 15,000 volunteers who make THON happen.

Nov. 28: Alumnus Michael Rainbow to share his biomedical research

11/16/11

Penn State Behrend alumnus Dr. Michael Rainbow, of the class of 2004, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School's Spaulding National Running Center Lab, will give a public overview of the lab's current research on Monday, Nov. 28. Rainbow's presentation, "Wrists, Knees and Baseball Bats: Research in an Orthopaedic Biomedical Engineering Lab" will be held at 2:30 p.m. in 101 Otto Behrend Science on the campus of Penn State Behrend. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Fifteen engineering students receive NSF graduate research fellowships

4/18/11

Fifteen students from the College of Engineering recently were named winners of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in the fields within the NSF's mission.

Untitled

Engineering Project Design Showcase winners announced

12/11/10

A project to reduce helicopter blade noise and a supply chain shipping analysis took the top awards in the fall 2010 College of Engineering Project Design Showcase, held Dec. 9 at the HUB's Alumni Hall.

Untitled

Homecoming king, queen reflect on new royal status

10/12/10

Justin Ross and Danielle DaSilva were both shocked to have been nominated for the 2010 Homecoming Court. Ross, a mechanical engineering senior and president of the Blue Band, considered himself a "band geek" and didn't know his friends were nominating him until after the fact. DaSilva, a bioengineering senior and president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), also felt humbled when her friends secretly nominated her for court through a Facebook group.

2010 Homecoming Court includes two engineering students

10/4/10

Despite their numerous time-consuming commitments and heavy course loads, two engineering students have found the time for one more activity this week: homecoming court. Justin Ross, mechanical engineering senior, and Danielle DaSilva, bioengineering senior, both hold significant leadership positions in their respective extracurriculars. Ross serves as president of the Blue Band, and DaSilva is president of Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

Untitled

Bioengineering faculty member to go distance to honor wife's memory

10/4/10

For Andrew Webb, professor of bioengineering, establishing a scholarship to encourage women in engineering was only the start of his effort to honor his late wife's memory. To promote awareness of the scholarship, Webb plans to run the local Tussey Mountainback 50-mile ultramarathon on Oct. 16.