Description :  The College of Engineering and Science (COES) has acquired $20,000 per year for four years to support three BoRSF Graduate Fellows in the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. The recruitment of these Fellows significantly enhances the program quality and prestige of the COES as well as the CyBERS and IfM and provides much-needed support to the Ph.D. students through high-quality, student-created research. This project stimulates both students and professors to higher levels of achievement and service. These Fellows contribute to the improvement of education in Louisiana at all levels, K-12 through graduate school. This project meets the state’s educational objectives in several ways: 1. The Fellowships strengthen the infrastructure of the COES by positioning superior graduate students in research projects, thereby enhancing the ability of COES faculty to achieve additional funding and support the state’s efforts to boost economic development through technology transfer. 2. The Fellowships place outstanding candidates in a doctoral program that directly addresses Vision 2020 of the state. 3. The Fellowships enhance competitive recruiting by the COES. 4. The Fellowships strengthen the College’s ability to recruit traditionally under-represented students to the campus and graduate school, thereby augmenting the state’s minority workforce of highly-qualified scientists and engineers.

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Principal Investigator:  Napper, Stan  --  Biomedical Engineering

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Collaborators:  Dr. Leslie K. Guice

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Funding Agencies:  Board of Regents

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Amount Awarded:  $80,000

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Start Period:  08/01/2003

End Period:  07/31/2008