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The 2012 membership year has begun, and you can renew your IEEE membership online at any time.
There are many exciting things happening with IEEE membership this year, so please read on to see what is waiting for you when you renew.

Be Entered to Win
Remember - renew your IEEE membership before 15 November 2011 and be entered into a drawing to win an Apple iPad 2. Visit www.ieee.org/renew today.

2012 IEEE EMBS Student Club Renewal

All IEEE EMB Student Clubs must renew their status by November 1st, 2011. This can be done by completing and submitting the same on-line Petition for the Establishment of an EMBS Student Club.

Note for all 2011/2012 Club Renewal Petitions: To renew your EMBS Student Club, you must provide a list of your club membership, including all members' names, member numbers and email addresses. Please compile this list and send it via email to Angela Martin at the EMBS Executive office prior to submitting your online petition for club renewal.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for paper: 8th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems

Budapest, Hungary, August 29–31, 2012

The Symposium will provide a forum for the presentation of new developments in the important interdisciplinary field of biomedical systems involving the application of concepts, methods and techniques of modelling, informatics and control of complex biomedical systems. The it will address problems in biomedicine, physiology and biology in engineering.
Paper submission deadline: February 3, 2010
More information: http://bms.iit.bme.hu 

Congratulations: EMBC 2011 Student Awards

The results of the EMBC 2011 student awards were announced at the Student Award Ceremony at EMBC'11 in Boston

Philips Young Investigator Award Finalists

Supported by funds provided by Philips

FIRST PLACE
AZADEH YADOLLAHI AND ZAHRA MOUSSAVI
Detailed Analysis of the Relationship between Tracheal Breath Sounds and Airflow in Relation to OSA During Wake and Sleep

SECOND PLACE
SHAOPENG LIU, ROBERT X. GAO, DINESH JOHN, JOHN STAUDENMAYER, PATTY FREEDSON
SVM-Based Multi-Sensor Fusion for Free-Living Physical Activity Assessment

HONORABLE MENTIONS
JOHN MOORE, HELENE HARDY, PAUL SKOLNIK, FRANK MOSS
A Collaborative Awareness System for Chronic Disease Medication Adherence Applied to HIV Infection

ATSUSHI TAKANO, TOMOHISA OGAWA, MASATO TANAKA, NOBUYUKI FUTAI
On-Chip Incubation System for Long-Term Microfluidic Cell Culture

DAVID MARTIN RUSSELL, DANIEL MCCORMICK, ANDREW TABERNER, SIMON MALPAS, DAVID BUDGETT
A High Bandwidth Fully Implantable Mouse Telemetry System for Chronic ECG Measurement

IBM Student Award Finalists

Supported by funds provided by IBM

FIRST PLACE
DONGPING DU, University of South Florida, USA
Multi-Scale Modeling of Glycosylation Modulation Dynamics in Cardiac Electrical Signaling

SECOND PLACE

PHILIP CHURCH, Deakin University, Australia
Design of Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms on Parallel, Distributed Memory Supercomputers

THIRD PLACE
RAHUL AGARWAL, Johns Hopkins University, USA
An analytical study of relay neuron’s reliability: Dependence on input and model parameters

Student Paper Competition

Open Finalists

FAITH A. BAZLEY, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Plasticity Associated Changes in Cortical Somatosensory Evoked Potentials following Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury

VIRGÍLIO BENTO, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Towards a Movement Quantification System Capable of Automatic Evaluation of Upper Limb Motor Function after Neurological Injury

ANTHONY CHRISTODOULOU, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Four-Dimensional MR Cardiovascular Imaging: Method and Application

BRIAN D’ALESSANDRO, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Voxel-Based, Parallel Simulation of Light in Skin Tissue for the Reconstruction of Subsurface Skin Lesion Volumes

CHENGZONG HAN, University of Minnesota, USA
Noninvasive Reconstruction of the Three-dimensional Ventricular Activation Sequence during Pacing and Ventricular Tachycardia in the Rabbit Heart

NHAN TRAN, The University of Melbourne, Australia
A Prototype 64-Electrode Stimulator in 65 nm CMOS Process towards a High Density Epi-Retinal Prosthesis

NING XUE, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
A SU-8-Based Compact Implantable Wireless Pressure Sensor for Intraocular Pressure Sensing Application

Congratulations: 2011 IEEE EMBS Club and Chapter Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 IEEE EMBS Student Club/Chapter Awards.

2011 IEEE EMBS Outstanding Performance Award for Student Branch Chapter/Club

Carleton University EMBS Student Club

Take a look at the Carleton University EMBS Student Club website.

2011 IEEE EMBS Best New Student Chapter/Club Award

Xiamen University Student Club

Take a look at the Xiamen University Student Club website.

2011 IEEE EMBS Outstanding Chapter Award

Ottawa Chapter

Take a look at the Ottawa Chapter website

IEEE EMBS Young Members Blog

Early this year we launched the IEEE EMBS Young Members Blog, another e-resource where you can connect with you colleagues and bring up interesting topics for discussion.
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Click here to visit the IEEE EMBS Young Members Blog.

EMBS Student Resource Center

Check out the new addition on the EMBS Student Website - the EMBS Student Resource Center . Here you can download material from previous workshops and career development sessions organized at EMBC, as well as other useful materials.