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Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Anatomy Professor Laurel Carney has received funding for her 2010 R01 grant entitled: Developing and Testing Models for the Auditory System with & without Hearing Loss. This study involves testing listeners with both normal hearing and hearing loss. The project focusses on the development of computational models that will assist in the testing of signal processing strategies for hearing aids.

She also received a renewal for five years of support from the NIH-NIDCD to study Auditory Processing of Complex Sounds; this renewal extends this research program to 20 consecutive years of NIH funding. Her research has resulted in better understanding of the physiological response to sound in the healthy auditory system, and may contribute to the improvement of hearing aids for those with hearing loss.

Six current BME students participated in the summer session of the David T. Kearns Research Symposium for Leadership and Diversity in the Arts, Sciences, and Engineering by presenting posters about their research. The symposium was held on Thursday July 29, 2010 in the Sloan Auditorium at Goergen Hall, and was sponsored by the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.

Threshold of Non-Eye Movement Vestibular Cells in Alert Monkeys

Daniel Barbash, mentored by Laurel Carney

Analysis of SHG (Second Harmonic Generation) Microscopy Sensitivity to Experimental Parameters

Jacy Bulaon, mentored by Edward Brown III

Investigating Acoustic Parameters that Optimize Ultrasound Standing Wave Fields for Cell Banding

Jasmine Carvalho, mentored by Diane Dalecki

Strategies for Erythrocyte Maturation In Vitro

Eric Lam, mentored by Richard Waugh

Identifying Potential Transcription Factors Regulating Cellulose Degradation in Ethanol Production in Clostridium Thermocellum

Kathleen Maloney, mentored by J.H. David Wu

Novel Parthenolide Delivery System for Leukemia Treatment

Hannah Watkins, mentored by Danielle Benoit

Daniel Barbash, a junior in BME, has received a Xerox Undergraduate Research Fellowship. He will join a collaborative project focusing on the analysis of the responses of vestibular neurons to novel stimuli with Prof. Shawn Newlands, Chair of Otolaryngology, and Prof. Laurel Carney, BME and NBA. This project is associated with the Center for Navigation and Communication Studies (CNCS). The UR SEAS Xerox Undergraduate Fellows Program is a highly competitive program that provides engineering students with research experience. The program begins during the summer preceding the senior year, and continues as an independent research course in the fall and spring semesters of the senior year.

At the BMES Annual Banquet, several undergraduate students were recognized for their achievements in leadership, research, academics, service and teaching. The banquet, held on April 9^th in the Munnerlyn Atrium of Goergen Hall, also offered an opportunity for students to honor Professor Laurel Carney as the BME faculty member of the Year.

Martin Schiavenato, Ph.D., R.N., assistant professor at the School of Nursing, was awarded the prestigious Nurse Faculty Scholarship Award will support his research into how pain is measured in premature babies. Schiavenato was mentored by Laurel Carney, Ph.D., professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology and Anatomy and Harriet Kitzman, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., associate dean of research at the School of Nursing (SON).