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Rose-Hulman
Hosts Nation's Oldest Bioengineering Symposium, Attracting Worldwide
Experts
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology hosted the 43rd
Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, the nation's oldest
continually-conducted bioengineering conference, on April 7-9.
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Former Rose-Hulman President
Samuel F. Hulbert |
Started in 1964, the symposium was originally conducted
around the Rocky Mountain region, but has grown in popularity to become
an international meeting place for bioengineering, applied biology and
biomedical engineering educators, researchers, physicians and students.
This year’s symposium attracted persons from 23 institutions in 12
states and six countries.
Lee Waite, chair of Rose-Hulman's Department of Applied
Biology and Biomedical Engineering, was the conference's program chair,
while Brenda Mardis, ABBE department secretary, and Carolyn Sterling of
Denver, Colo., were conference co-chairs.
Fundamental topics being emphasized at the meeting were biomaterials, biomechanics, biomedical signal processing, and cell
and tissue engineering. Presentations and workshops are planned in each
area, and students and professors will be presenting academic poster
sessions on each day.
International faculty and physicians attending
came from the Hiroshima Institute of Technology and Kanazawa Institute of
Technology (Japan), University of Trieste (Italy), University of Basel
(Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland) and University of Saskatchewan
(Canada). The list of United States’ presenters included persons from
Indiana University, Purdue University, IUPUI, John Hopkins University,
University of Mississippi, Iowa State, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and
University of Wyoming.
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Dr. Keith Baird |
Former Rose-Hulman President Samuel F. Hulbert, a
pioneer in the use of ceramics to create artificial knees, hips and
dental protheses, returned to campus to present the opening address on "Recent Advances in Artificial
Organs and Prosthesis Devices."
Retired NASA flight surgeon Dr. Keith Baird of
Crawfordsville made an invited talk on “Medical Mysteries of
Apollo 13”.
Rose-Hulman professors chairing conference sessions were Jameel Ahmed, Richard Stamper and Waite. English Professor Julia
Williams led a workshop on “Improving Your Conference Presentation
Skills.” Mary Johnson and Gabi Waite, faculty from the Indiana
University School of Medicine at Terre Haute, also chaired sessions.
Ahmed, Johnson, Gabi Waite and Rose-Hulman Electrical and Computer
Engineering Professor Bob Throne are members of the RMBS board of
directors.
Senior applied biology student Derek Trobaugh made
a presentation on “Quantitative Studies on Biological Water Oxidation: A
Novel Mechanism of T-Cells and Antibodies,” a paper written with Lee
Waite, and Walter Balcavage, Ellen Hughes and Gabi Waite of the IU
School of Medicine. Graduate student Nicky (Overman) Lynn presented
research on “A Technique for Tracking Intravascular Fluorescent Microspheres for the Determination of Arteriolar Blood Flow in Rats,”
undertaken with Ahmed. Anjelica Dortch of Indiana State University’s
Department of Chemistry presented a session on “Characterization of
Pulsed Magnetic Field Therapy in a Rat Model for Rheumatoid Arthritis,”
which was completed with assistance from Johnson.
Thirty-seven poster presentations were conducted,
included the latest research by Rose-Hulman students Katie Harrigan,
Rachel Logan and Anne Sluti and Professor Renee Rogge; Rose-Hulman
faculty members Lorraine Olson and Throne; Rose-Hulman alumnus Krista
Gonnerman, now a graduate student at IUPUI, and Robert Owegi of ISU’s
College of Nursing and Johnson.
Cash prizes were awarded to the top
presentations. The student paper competition was sponsored by The Eli
Lilly/Guidant Applied Life Sciences Research Center and Leydig, Voit &
Mayer.
Details about the symposium are available on the
Web at http://www.rmbs.org/. |
