Beth Cheney, R&D Project Manager, Datascope Corp. presented a seminar.

Dr. Thomas Felicetti, Executive Director of Beechwood Rehabilitative Services - Woods Services presented a seminar entitled, "Red Flags in Brain Injury"

Professor Kathryn Uhrich described her work on bioactive-based polymers. Prof. Uhrich is Associate Chair and Graduate Program Director of Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey Chemistry & Chemical Biology and she is a Co-Director of the Stem Cell IGERT at Rutgers U.

Dmitri B. Chklovskii, Ph.D. Group Leader, Janelia Farm Howard Hughes Medical Institute conducted a seminar entitled, "A Unifying Principle of Dendritic Arbor Shape"

Raquel Perez Castillejos, assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, reviewed techniques for microfluidics fabrication with PDMS and highlight the advantages (and possible limitations) of PDMS for various applications.

Joshua Berlin, professor of pharmacology in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey conducted a seminar on the enzyme responsible for establishing electrochemical gradients for Na+ and K+ across the cell membrane of nearly every eukaryotic cell. The focus of the seminar was on, although we understand the biochemical reactions that underlie ion transport and increasingly know the structure of this protein, much of the detailed information to fully understand how this enzyme functions remains to be uncovered.

BME's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Technology for Children with Orthopedic Disabilities conducted a State of the Science Workshop on Pediatric Rehabilitation Engineering on October 16 and 17, 2008. The goal for the Workshop was to bring together some of the brightest minds in basic and applied research to discuss how emerging knowledge in neuroscience, medicine, and engineering can define and sustain current and future pediatric rehabilitation engineering. This RERC is one of 22 centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, part of the U.S. Department of Education. For more information about the center, please visit http://rerc.njit.edu/

The Department of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) invites applications for the position of Chair. Candidates must have an earned doctorate in biomedical engineering or a related field. The successful candidate will have a sound vision of the future of biomedical engineering and the ability to lead and advance a student-centered and research-oriented department. Please visit http://www.njit.edu/humanresources/ for more information.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly announces the official accreditation of the Bachelor of Science program in biomedical engineering by the Accreditation Commission of ABET, Inc. Accreditation is retroactive to 2005.

Howard Scalzo, Principal Engineer, Ethicon, Inc. (A division of Johnson & Johnson) discussed the many possible employment choices that someone with a BME degree can choose.

Camelia Prodan, PhD, assistant professor in the department of physics at NJIT, presented a seminar entitled “Dielectric Spectroscopy for Biological Applications.” Dr. Prodan was invited to talk, as part of the Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series.

Yelda Alkan won first place in the 34th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference student paper competition for her paper entitled "Cortical Location of Saccadic and Vergence Oculomotor Learning Revealed using fMRI." The paper was based on her collaborative research with co-advisor, Bharat Biswal, associate professor of radiology at UMDNJ and her advisor, Tara Alvarez, associate professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT. The conference, held April 4 through 6, 2008 at Brown University, was sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).

Professor Kensall Wise presented a seminar entitled, "Chronic Multi-Electrode Microsystems for Neuroscience and Advanced Neural Prostheses." The seminar attracted a large group of faculty and students from neighboring universities Rutgers and UMDNJ, as well as NJIT faculty and students. Professor Wise is a William Gould Dow Distinguished University Professor and a J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology.

Dennis R. Filippone, MD will present a seminar entitled, "Tools of the Trade. Friday at 11:30 a.m., in Cullimore Lecture Hall III.

BME Graduate students are preparing to present their latest research at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) annual meeting in Washington, DC November 15-19.