April 2011: Congratulations to Leigh’e Lincoln et al. for winning the College of Science Dean’s Choice Award at the Purdue University Undergraduate Poster Competition!

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  • Also, congratulations to T.J. Hinton, Neil Patel et al. for winning the Engineering Council Choice Award at the same competition!

January, 2011: The NPRLab, in collaboration with Dr. Panitch at Purdue and a strong team at the University of Wisconsin was awarded for their proposal to DARPA entitled “NORMAL AND ACCELERATED FAILURE ASSESSMENT OF NEW QUANTITATIVE IN VITRO AND IN VIVO NEURAL INTERFACES”.

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  • This 3 year, $1.9M project will seek to understand, propagate, and mitigate device-tissue interface failure for chronic microelectrodes in the central nervous system.

January, 2011: The NPRLab was the recipient of a another generous personal financial gift, matched by a corporate gift. Once again, we thank our donors immensely for supporting our work!

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November 2010: Andrew Woolley and Nnadozie Onunkwo both presented talks at a minisymposium at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA.

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July 2010: Otto group awarded collaborative award from Showalter Trust entitled, “A Novel Rat Model of Pre-Diagnosis Cognitive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease.”

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April 7, 2010: Congratulations to Himanshi Desai et al. for winning the College of Science First Place Award at the Purdue University Undergraduate Poster Competition!

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March, 2010: Congratulations to Ashley Sankari for an outstanding day at the Indiana State Science Fair Competition! In total she:

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  • Received the Weaver Scholarship from the Science Education Foundation of Indiana, Inc.
  • Received First Place in Excellence in Human Health, Biology or Life Sciences.
  • Was awarded the Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award.