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Congratulations to Zenith Acosta, recent alumna of our Department of Biomedical Engineering who has received the prestigious <strong>Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Fellowship</strong> (<a href="http://whitakerawards.org/">www.whitakerawards.org</a>). Zenith, who was a McNair scholar will be spending a year in the laboratory of Dr. Carlijn VC Bouten at the Eindhoven Institute of Technology in Eindhoven The Netherlands.