Congratulations to our outstanding BME Graduate Students! Biomedical Engineering Graduate students received 
an outstanding number of awards at the Case Showcase and BME Research Day.
BME Research Day Poster Competition Award Winners
Grand Prize:
Anirban Dutta: Electromyogram-triggered Functional Electrical Stimulation-assisted Walking after Partial Paralysis
SPONSOR AWARDS:
1st place – DeFOREST AWARD
Aaron Hadley: Percutaneous Connector for Chronic Measurement of EMG with Implanted Electrodes
Case Showcase Awards won by BME Graduate students
Honorable Mention awards: BME received 3 of the 25 Honorable Mention awards at Showcase
James Harris: Cortical Response to Polyvinyl Acetate – Tunicate Whisker Polymer Nanocomposite (PVAc-TW)
Dong-Gil Lee: Robotic gait simulator for assessing effects of diabetes on midfoot joint pressures
Alicia Jensen: Sinusoidal stimulation mediated elevations in extracellular potassium suppress axonal conduction in vitro
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AWARD
Matthew Schiefer: Intraoperative Evaluation of the Flat Interface Nerve Electrod for Selective Recruitment of Anterior Thigh Muscles in Humans
Michael Jenkins: Longitudinal Imaging of embryonic hearts using an OCT system with environmental control
Xin Qi: Morphological Feature Quantification of Colonic Crypt Patterns using Microscope-Integrated OCT
Natalie Brill: Selective Control of Hand Function in Non-Human Primates with a Flat Interface Nerve Cuff Electrode
Brian Wodlinger: Localization of Activity in Peripheral Nerves Using Electromagnetic Reciprocity
