Senior gets engineering award

Isis Trenchard, a senior in biomedical engineering, received the 2007 Undergraduate Research and Design Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society for her work on “Doping of Polyaniline for Use in Recognitive Hydrogels.” Trenchard’s research aimed to create a biosensor using a conductive polymer, which could be useful with biomedical systems. The research was conducted under Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacy Professor Nicolas Peppas and doctoral student Carolyn Bayer.