I was reading this research from A&M Texas on Viagra and Watermelon. 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630165707.htm

I have noticed that it has made the front page news on many newspapers
worldwide in a matter of few days.  Maybe we should move to this field,
and because below I find that there are indeed interaction with aorta stiffness and elastic wave reflections.

So if you are interested in a subject of certain high impact, this is a good idea.

Mike

I stumbled across this interesting blog post yesterday concerning an upcoming course on medicine via web 2.0.   It appeared quite interesting from several perspectives: first, medicine is often associated with being behind the times on technology but this all looks pretty current, secondly it may be the most comprehensive listing of topics I have seen where web 2.0 is applied to a single discipline, and finally it made me wonder what more we could do with mechanics via web 2.0 beyond just the current features that drive iMechanica!

The 2008 ASME Summer Bioengineering conference will be held in Amelia Island, FL; June 25-29 2008.  The call for papers is here .  The abstract center can be reached here ; abstracts are due by 31 January, 2008.  Besides the general abstract category, submissions by students may be eligible for the student competition category (competed independently at B.S., M.S. and PhD levels). Further information on the scope of the student paper competitions can be found here .

The School of Engineering at the University of Vermont is searching for a new Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in support of a Ph.D track in Integrative Bioengineering and Computational Biology. The focus of this program will be on developing and using modern engineering approaches for describing, analyzing, and predicting the behavior of complex biological systems at multiple scales.  Emphasis will be placed on understanding how biochemical, biomechanical, and/or other biophysical processes interact and influence emergent properties at different levels.

Via Jeff Weiss :