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The National Institutes of Health, the primary medical research agency in the United States, is sponsoring a new competition for undergraduate students to design and develop innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems. This program, called The Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge, is being organized by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) section of the NIH.

At stake are $10,000 prizes in three categories – diagnostic devices, therapeutic devices, and technology to aid underserved populations and individuals with disabilities. Competitors must be full time undergraduate students and permanent residents of the US in order to qualify. Dr. Zeynep Erim, the architect of the challenge, said that the NIBIB’s objective for the participants is “to force the boundaries of their design skills and knowledge to develop innovative biomedical technology for health care.” Hopefully the spirit of this competition inspires them to create more efficient medical procedures and equipment to meet our ever-growing health care needs.

You can visit the official DEBUT page to enter the challenge or follow along with the entries. It will be interesting to follow along with the proposals to see what new ideas these young biomedical engineers come up with. The submission deadline is May 26th, 2012, and winners will be announced on July 31st, 2012.

Read the full announcement here.

It's time! After many months of work, we finally launched the new and improved version of our website last week. On our end, this hopefully means no more agonizing over different fonts and button colors.  For you guys, it should mean a user-friendly layout with more services. If you haven't seen it yet, head on over to www.sterlitech.com to look around, then let us know what you think here. We'll reward some lucky commenters with a Sterlitech mug or t-shirt!

Aside from cleaning up the layout and making things prettier, the new site also has some added features to give you a better experience.

• Better Site Search - We made it easier to find what you are looking for, whether it's a particular product or a technical article. You can also search by SKU to quickly pull up the items you want.   
• Organized Resource Documents - Tables, charts, specifications, and other technical data have been organized by product group to make researching a product or application easier.
• FAQs Matched with Products - Our FAQ's have been pulled into the individual product category tabs so you can get answers without having to go back and forth between pages.     
• Accepting Web Purchase Orders -  We added the ability to accept purchase orders over the web to give our customers more ordering options.

For more detailed information on what's changed, we've also put together this guide at http://www.sterlitech.com/website-guide.html.

Here's hoping you like what we've done so far. Of course we're always open to more changes, so if there's something you'd like to see added or changed, don't be shy about letting us know...