IGERT fellows, Sarah Runge, Karen Levi, Todd Alexander and Heather Cirka have entered into the NSF’s IGERT 2013 video and poster competition. They are competing against over a hundred other IGERT fellows in three different award categories. The Judges award, Community Choice and Public Choice. You can view the video and poster at http://posterhall.org/igert2013/posters/415 and [...]
April 23, 2013
Professor Camessano 2012-2013 ELATE Fellow
Professor Camesano, Professor of Chemical Engineering, has graduated from the inaugural class of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE at Drexel™) Fellowship program. The ELATE program provides academic leadership training and support for women through a one-year fellowship program. Fellows received instruction in different dimensions of leadership, such as personal and professional [...]
April 8, 2013
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IGERT Fellow Heather Cirka Named as 2013 Koerner Fellow
The Koerner Family Fellowship is in its second season here at WPI. The family wishes to aid graduate and undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in academia. Heather Cirka of the IGERT Grant and Biomedical Engineering Department was selected as one of the 2013 graduate fellows. Heather is currently studying mechanobiological sensing in valvular interstitial [...]
April 2, 2013
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Sarah Runge was recently selected for a poster presentation
Igert fellow Sarah Runge recently presented a poster at the Epigenetics and Chromatin conference from March 11th to the 13th at Harvard Medical School in Boston. The poster title was Acquisition of regeneration Competence in Adult Fibroblasts is Accompanied by Upregulation of Arginine Methyltransferase PRMT8, Sarah Runge and Tanja Dominko.
February 27, 2013
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IGERT Students Attend Student Entrepreneurship Night at the MassChallenge in Boston
On Wednesday, Jan. 30th, three IGERT students, Sarah Runge, Heather Cirka and Karen Levi and pre-IGERT student, Lindsay Lozeau, attended Student Entrepreneurship Night at the MassChallenge headquarters in Boston. The event held an opening panel of CEOs from start-up companies in the Boston area such as Jessica Cole from Roammeo answering questions about their entrepreneurial [...]
February 13, 2013
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren visited WPI’s Research Labs at Gateway Park
Sen. Elizabeth Warren visited WPI on February 1, 2013 where she toured the lab space at Gateway Park. She got a firsthand look at the innovative research being conducted here that IGERT fellows take part in. Sen. Warren was impressed with the facility, calling it a prime example of the future of education. IGERT fellow [...]
February 5, 2013
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Katrina Hansen Shows Research Project to members of the J. Geils Band
Pre-Igert fellow Katrina Hansen had the opportunity to show some of the research she is working on, in Prof. Gaudette’s lab, to a couple members of The J. Geils Band. Band members Richard Salwitz and Danny Klein are WPI Alum and were visiting campus on January 30, 2013. Danny Klein’s dog recently received stem cell [...]
January 29, 2013
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VitaThreads, co-founded by Professors Gaudette & Pins, a Finalist in AUTM 2013 Venture Forum
A new company recently formed based on the technology developed in the laboratories of Professors Gaudette & Pins has been selected as a Finalist for the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) 2013 Venture Forum. The meeting will be held in San Antonio, TX, February 27-March 2. VitaThreads, one of four finalists, is commercializing a [...]
January 22, 2013
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IGERT student attends the MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum
IGERT student Todd Alexander’s synopsis of the innovation and entrepreneurship event he recently attended: One entrepreneurial event I attended was put on by the MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (MIT-Chief). It was a weekend long event focused on the Big Data revolution. The days were broken up into a morning session held by a handful [...]
January 4, 2013
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Prof. Dominko has established a Center for biomedical Sciences and Engineering
Prof. Dominko has established a Center for biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. Where next year they will be conducting their first three MQP projects! (http://www-cbzi.ung.si/)
May 21, 2013
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