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Memphis Section to Dr. Semahat S.Demir, who has been selected 2004Featured Engineer for exemplaryleadership to IEEE Engineering inMedicine and Biology Society andthe Biomedical Engineer ingCommunity,” with the signature ofthe chai r of the Memphis JointEngineers Council and with the sealof Shelby County, Agriculture andCommerce Tennessee.

Dr. Demir became program direc-tor for BME and Research to AidPersons with Disabilities, Division ofBioengineering and EnvironmentalSystems at National Science Foun-dation (NSF), on 30 May 2004. Shealso continues her research with herteam in Memphis while she is on aleave of absence from her facultyposition at the Joint BME Programof Universi ty of Memphis andUniversi ty of Tennessee HealthScience Center.

2004 EMBS AwardsThe IEEE EMBS congratulates therecipients of the following 2004EMBS Awards.

The Career Achieve-ment Award went toMichael R. Neumanfrom Michigan Tech-nical University inHoughton, Michigan,for his contributionsto biomedical sensors

and instrumentation, applications toclinical medicine, education, mentoringof biomedical engineers, and service tothe profession.

Susan Hagness fromthe Univers i ty ofWisconsin , Madi-son, Wisconsin, re-ceived the Ear lyCareer AchievementAward for outstand-ing contributions to

the development and application ofcomputational electromagnetic tech-niques and microwave diagnostictechnologies for the detection ofbreast cancer.

John Enderle fromthe University ofConnecticut, Storrs,Connecticut, receiveda Career Serviceaward for a meritori-ous career in bio-medical engineering

education as exemplified by excel-lence in classroom teaching, promo-tion of design, hands-on experiencein the learning process, and publica-tion of textbooks and editorial sup-port of IEEE Engineering inMedicine and Biology Magazine.

2004 EMBS Student Paper andDesign Competition WinnersThe IEEE EMBS congratulates thewinners of the 2004 EMBS StudentPaper and Design Compet i t ion ,cosponsored by the WhitakerFoundation.

In the paper competition, Mary P.McDougal l f rom Texas A&MUniversity, College Station, Texas,won first place with her paper titled“Overcoming Phase Effects ofVoxel-Sized Coils in Planar andCylindrical Arrays.”

Kartikeya Murari from JohnHopkins University, Baltimore, Mary-land, came in second with “Wide-Range, Picoampere-SensitivityMultichannel VLSI Potentiostat forNeurotransmitter Sensing.”

There was a tie for third placebetween Angela C. Tooker fromCalifornia Institute of Technology,with her paper titled “Developmentof Biocompatible Neurocages,” andCorey M. Yanofsky from McGillUnivers i ty , Montreal , Quebec,Canada, with “Determination of theSystematic and Random Measure-

ment Error in an LC-FTICR MassSpectrometry Analysis of a PartiallyCharacter ized Complex Pept ideMixture.”

Esther J. Kim, Mary McDonald,and William Tam, John HopkinsUniversity, won first place in thedesign competition for their design“Simulating Complicated HumanBirth for Research and Training.”

Zafer Aydin, Georgia Institute ofTechnology, Atlanta, Georgia, camein second with “Protein SecondaryStructure Prediction with SemiMarkov HMMs.” Third place went toNobuo Watanabe, Tokyo Medical andDental University, Tokyo, Japan, for“Dynamic Deformation Capability ofa Red Blood Cell Under a CyclicallyReciprocating Shear Stress.”

The IEEE EMBS would also liketo congratulate all the students whoparticipated in the Paper and DesignCompetition for the 26th AnnualInternat ional Conference of theIEEE Engineering in Medicine andBiology Society.

Science Education Grants for InstitutionsHHMI and the National Institute ofBiomedical Imaging and Bioen-gineering have formed a new partner-ship to support biomedical researchinstitutions in developing graduate-level research training programs inemerging interdisciplinary fields.

The competition for 2006 grantsis scheduled to be awarded in earlyNovember. Deadlines and milestonedates are as follows: ➤ Register intent to apply—20

January 2005 ➤ Submit proposal—15 June 2005 ➤ Awards announced—2

November 2005➤ Grant term star ts—1 January

2006For more information, please visit

the Web site at http://www.hhmi.org/grants/institutions/nibib.html.