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Moving to the Beat

7/10/12

A device about the size of a dime can manipulate living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms using sound waves, according to a team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn State. The device, called acoustic tweezers, is the first technology capable of touchlessly trapping and manipulating Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a one millimeter-long roundworm that is an important model system for studying diseases and development in humans. Acoustic tweezers are also capable of precisely manipulating cellular-scale objects that are essential to many areas of fundamental biomedical research.

Hartman named outstanding teacher by engineering alumni society

4/18/12

Myron Hartman, program coordinator and instructor for the Biomedical Engineering Technology program at Penn State New Kensington, was honored April 13 by the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society at a luncheon in State College, Pa. Hartman received the "PSEAS Outstanding Teaching Award" for excellence in teaching and for contributions to the art of teaching.

Summer program gives students a taste of research in biomedical field

8/11/09

Operating electron and confocal microscopes, designing modeling projects and cultivating cells were just a few of the activities students from across the country participated in at the Penn State Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology Summer Institute (BBSI). From May 28 to Aug. 7, 15 students from various universities took part in skills workshops, weekly seminars and laboratory research at the University and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The BBSI is designed to form a community of students interested in pursuing careers in biomedical science and engineering, with a successful and meaningful research experience. It is a collaborative teaching effort among the departments of bioengineering, chemistry and materials science and the Materials Research Institute.

Worried Sick

1/1/00

As an instructor of English at Penn State, I require first-year students to give an least one oral presentation during the semester. And while my intentions are noble, for I truly believe that addressing an audience coherently is an important ability, I often end up feeling more like the Marquis de Sade than Glenda the Good Witch. For at least ten percent of the students, the experience lands them in a mental territory somewhere between agonizing and excruciating. Oral surgery without Novocain would be preferable.

Moving to the Beat

7/10/12

A device about the size of a dime can manipulate living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms using sound waves, according to a team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn State. The device, called acoustic tweezers, is the first technology capable of touchlessly trapping and manipulating Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a one millimeter-long roundworm that is an important model system for studying diseases and development in humans. Acoustic tweezers are also capable of precisely manipulating cellular-scale objects that are essential to many areas of fundamental biomedical research.

Hartman named outstanding teacher by engineering alumni society

4/18/12

Myron Hartman, program coordinator and instructor for the Biomedical Engineering Technology program at Penn State New Kensington, was honored April 13 by the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society at a luncheon in State College, Pa. Hartman received the "PSEAS Outstanding Teaching Award" for excellence in teaching and for contributions to the art of teaching.

Summer program gives students a taste of research in biomedical field

8/11/09

Operating electron and confocal microscopes, designing modeling projects and cultivating cells were just a few of the activities students from across the country participated in at the Penn State Biomaterials and Bionanotechnology Summer Institute (BBSI). From May 28 to Aug. 7, 15 students from various universities took part in skills workshops, weekly seminars and laboratory research at the University and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The BBSI is designed to form a community of students interested in pursuing careers in biomedical science and engineering, with a successful and meaningful research experience. It is a collaborative teaching effort among the departments of bioengineering, chemistry and materials science and the Materials Research Institute.

Worried Sick

1/1/00

As an instructor of English at Penn State, I require first-year students to give an least one oral presentation during the semester. And while my intentions are noble, for I truly believe that addressing an audience coherently is an important ability, I often end up feeling more like the Marquis de Sade than Glenda the Good Witch. For at least ten percent of the students, the experience lands them in a mental territory somewhere between agonizing and excruciating. Oral surgery without Novocain would be preferable.