Baxter Healthcare – Baxter Healthcare Corporation recently presented Bioengineering Ph.D. Student Jungeun "Jenny" Won with a 2019 Young Investigator Award. Her research is titled “Middle Ear Imaging Device for Non-invasive, Real-time Diagnosis and Monitoring of Middle Ear Infections.” As part of the Biophotonics Imaging Lab, her adviser is Stephen Boppart. Fourteen graduate students received the award this year for "research that is challenging, applicable to critical care therapies, and that helps Baxter save and sustain human lives," said the Baxter award committee in its notification to Won.

The Grainger College of Engineering – In the growing need to improve imaging techniques, the US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded an RO1 grant to improve breast ultrasound tomography. Beckman’s Mark Anastasio, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering and the head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois, is the contact principal investigator on the project, titled “Advanced image reconstruction for accurate and high-resolution breast ultrasound tomography.” Illinois will partner with Wayne State University.

Washington Post – Cognitive neuroscientist Kara Federmeier was quoted in an article in the Washington Post about how seeing shapes in the sky has nothing to do with meteorology and everything to do with the mechanics of the human brain. “The visual system is constantly sending messy, only partially analyzed information forward into memory. It’s sort of saying: ‘Here’s some stuff. What do you have that looks anything like this?’ ” Federmeier said.