Bioengineering Seminar Schedule

Spring Semester, 2000 (For prior semesters, click here: Fall, 1999 , Click here to return to current semester)

Thursday, January 27, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Darrell Velegol
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Penn State University

“Determining Cell Traction Forces of 3T3 Fibroblasts on Collagen Gels”

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building)

Thursday, February 3, 2000 110 Hallowell (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Qing Yang
Assistant Professor of Radiology, Hershey Medical Center

"A Challenge for MRI: Magnetic Susceptibility Contrast and Artifact"

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building)

February 10, 2000, 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

Marjorie Rawhouser, Ph.D. Candidate

Thesis Defense

"A Systems Model to Study Volumetric Performance of Pusher-Plate Blood Pumps."

Thursday, February 17, 2000, 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 pm
Barbara C. Sonies

Chief, Speech-Language Pathology Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health

"Applications of Real-time Ultrasound to Imaging and Modeling of the Oropharynx"

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building)

February 24, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 pm

Naomi Chesler

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

The University of Vermont

"Ex vivo Artery Culture: Uses and Abuses."

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building)


March 2, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Richard Magin

Professor and Head of Bioengineering

University of Illinois at Chicago

"Micocoil NMR: Theory and Applications." Room CG624E.

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building) more info...

March 16, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

To Be Announced

March 23, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Chris Deiderich

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

University of California, San Francisco.

"Thermal Therapy for Cancer and Benign Disease."

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building) more info...

March 30, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Andrew Webb

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging: From Single Neurons to Functional Brain Mapping."

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building) more info...

April 6, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624E (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Richard Waugh

Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology

Director of Biomedical Engineering

University of Rochester.

"Red Cell Membrane Stability: Implications for Circulation."

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building) more info...

April 13, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624F (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Tim Hall

Associate Professor of Radiology

University of Kansas Medical Center

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building) more info...

April 20, 2000 110 Hallowell Building (University Park) & CG624F (Hershey Medical Center)

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Arne Voie

Spencer Technology.

(Refreshments to follow in Room 234 Hallowell Building) more info...

For additional information, contact Ms. Brenda Bixler, Bioengineering Program, Tel: 814.865.1407 or E-Mail: bsb1@psu.edu