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Katherine Ferrara

Katherine Ferrara Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Distinguished Professor Katherine Ferrara, whose research has pioneered using ultrasound to image cancer and heart disease and who played a leadership role in establishing the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest professional recognition for an engineer.
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BME Professor Teaches Engineering Through Coffee Brewing

From a latte with friends to an all-night study session, students likely drink as much coffee as anyone. But this winter, students at the University of California, Davis, are getting a new insight into their favorite hot drink through two new courses that use the roasting, processing and brewing of coffee to teach the principles of chemical engineering.

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Jinyi Qi Elected to IEEE Fellow

Jinyi Qi has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective, January 1, 2014. He received this honor “for contributions to statistical image reconstruction for emission-computed tomography.”
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Athanasiou Receives Lissner Medal

Kyriacos A. Athanasiou, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received the 2013/14 H.R. Lissner Medal from the Bioengineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He will be presented with the medal and monetary award during the seventh World Congress of Biomechanics, taking place July 6-11, 2014, in Boston, MA.

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John Boone Elected AAPM President

John M. Boone was recently elected as an officer of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), a scientific, educational, and professional society representing over 8000 medical physicists in the United States and elsewhere. 

Boone is Professor and Vice Chair of Radiology and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis, and is a founding member of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

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