2011 News

	May 23, 2011 ChEMS Student Selected to Speak at Cal Poly Pomona ADVANCE Distinguished Doctoral Student Seminar Series Shehreen Dheda to present seminar featuring titanium research
	May 16, 2011 EECS Alumnus Named 2011 Lauds & Laurels Distinguished Alumnus for Engineering Dr. Paramesh Gopi honored for contributions to business community
	May 12, 2011 Samueli School Honors Four Faculty Members at Annual Dinner and Awards Banquet Engineering faculty recognized for their contributions to research and teaching
	May 2, 2011 BME Student Wins μTAS Art in Science Award Nicholas Gunn’s photo used as cover for the journal, Lab on a Chip
	Apr 26, 2011 Engineering World Health Arrives at UC Irvine Newly founded organization looks to make impact in developing nations
	Apr 22, 2011 Dr. Albert Starr Speaks at Edwards Lifesciences Center Event Co-creator of first artificial heart valve presented his role in the evolution of the valve
	Apr 21, 2011 Sharper Images Ophthalmology chair and BME professor is a pioneer in laser eye surgery
	Apr 20, 2011 Engineering a Better Future Doctoral candidate snags fellowship for work assessing infrastructure vulnerability to natural disasters On the night of June 20, 1990, 8-year-old Behrouz Shafei was up late watching soccer on TV when his world suddenly convulsed. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake centered some 150 miles from his home in Tehran claimed more than 40,000 lives. “It was my first inspiration to study natural hazards,” Shafei says. “Like California, Iran is a high-seismic area. I wanted to contribute to society in a meaningful way that crosses borders and nationalities. Natural disasters do not recognize manmade boundaries.”
	Apr 15, 2011 Six Samueli School Students Awarded Fellowships Graduate students from four departments honored for academic achievement
	Apr 11, 2011 BME Assistant Professor Receives CAREER Award for Neuron Research Zoran Nenadic to study electrical activity of neurons
	Apr 8, 2011 Biomedical Researchers Awarded $1 Million Keck Foundation Grant Three UCI researchers receive funds to develop a nanoscale imaging microscope Biomedical Engineering Professor Enrico Gratton, Ph.D., Research Associate Michelle Digman, Ph.D., and Developmental and Cell Biology Professor J. Lawrence Marsh, Ph.D., have been awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to engineer a nanoscale imaging microscope capable of observing single-cell migration in vivo. Matching funds were also awarded by the UC Irvine Office of Research to support the establishment of the "W.M. Keck Nanoimaging Laboratory,” whose mission is to develop technologies that will revolutionize how protein dynamics are measured.
	Apr 1, 2011 Biomedical Engineering Paper Featured in Journal of Biomedical Optics Microvascular Therapeutics and Imaging Laboratory has paper on birthmark removal technoogy published
	Mar 28, 2011 A Revolution in the Making Engineering school's new RapidTech center could alter U.S. manufacturing Imagine being able to sketch a new musical instrument or design a lifesaving medical part and within hours have in hand a three-dimensional prototype with details as precise as one-twentieth the width of a human hair. UC Irvine’s Marc Madou, Chancellor’s Professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering, is working closely with Tommaso Baldacchini, a staff scientist at Newport Corp., on manufacturing technology that could do just that – radically changing how things are made.
	Mar 21, 2011 UC Irvine’s MicroSystems Laboratory Featured in IEEE Spectrum Magazine Dr. Alexander Trusov’s presentation at MEMS 2011 sparks interest
	Mar 16, 2011 Biomedical Engineering Student Selected to Attend 2011 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Claire Robertson will attend meetings in Germany in June
	Mar 9, 2011 Engineering Student Council Honors 10 at Annual Awards Banquet Five professors and five students honored by ESC
	Mar 1, 2011 Two Samueli School Professors Named IEEE Fellows Frank Shi and Fan-Gang Zeng are among 321 new Fellows named in 2011
	Feb 24, 2011 High School Student Conducts Research Project in UC Irvine Lab Kimberly Hong works with Assistant Professor Diego Rosso for water research project
	Feb 16, 2011 Chancellor’s Professor Named American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow Hamid Jafarkhani is one of four UCI professors named AAAS Fellow
	Feb 15, 2011 Improving Biomedical Implants UCI researcher Wendy Liu is trying to make the lifesaving devices less life-threatening Every year, more than half a million people in the United States undergo surgery for biomedical implants – like stents or heart valves – intended to save their lives, according to the American Heart Association. Unfortunately, these devices themselves can sometimes cause a potentially fatal immune system response. To help prevent this, UC Irvine biomedical engineer Wendy Liu is researching safer coatings for implants that dissolve inside the body when their work is done.