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There are a lot of answers to this question based upon opinion only.Here are some documented facts:#1- Children in father-absent homes are almost four times more likely to be poor. In 2011, 12 percent of children in married-couple families were living in poverty, compared to 44 percent of children in mother-only families.Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Children’s Living Arrangements and Characteristics: March 2011, Table C8. Washington D.C.: 2011.So throw out all those TV examples of a single mother happily raising a kid. Sure there are examples but they are exceptions- it is not reality. Get it? TV or 'someone you know down the block who is doing fine' is not the reality.#2- Children living in female headed families with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6 percent, over 4 times the rate in married-couple families.Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; ASEP Issue Brief: Information on Poverty and Income Statistics. September 12, 2012#3- And children born to poverty is trending upward:Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; ASEP Issue Brief: Information on Poverty and Income Statistics. September 12, 2012http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/12/PovertyAndIncomeEst/ib.shtml#4- “Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse.”Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Survey on Child Health. Washington, DC, 1993."Children of single-parent homes are more than twice as likely to commit suicide."Sources: The Lancet, Jan. 25, 2003 • Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft, MD, Centre for Epidemiology, the National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden • Irwin Sandler, PhD, professor of psychology and director of the Prevention Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe • Douglas G. Jacobs, MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; and founder and director, The National Depression Screening Program • Madelyn Gould, PhD, MPH, professor of child psychiatry and public health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; and research scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute.Single-Parent Homes Increase Risk of Child Suicide#5- Educational Achievement– Children living with their married biological father tested at a significantly higher level than those living with a nonbiological father.- Children in grades 7-12 who have lived with at least one biological parent, youth that experienced divorce, separation, or nonunion birth reported lower grade point averages than those who have always lived with both biological parents.Source: Tillman, K. H. (2007). Family structure pathways and academic disadvantage among adolescents in stepfamilies. Journal of Marriage and Family.– Father involvement in schools is associated with the higher likelihood of a student getting mostly A’s. This was true for fathers in biological parent families, for stepfathers, and for fathers heading single-parent families.Source: Nord, Christine Winquist, and Jerry West. Fathers’ and Mothers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Schools by Family Type and Resident Status. (NCES 2001-032). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2001.– 71% of high school dropouts are fatherless; fatherless children have more trouble academically, scoring poorly on tests of reading, mathematics, and thinking skills; children from father-absent homes are more likely to be truant from school, more likely to be excluded from school, more likely to leave school at age 16, and less likely to attain academic and professional qualifications in adulthood.Source: Edward Kruk, Ph.D., “The Vital Importance of Paternal Presence in Children’s Lives.” May 23, 2012.http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/co-parenting-after-divorce/201205/father-absence-father-deficit-father-hunger#6- CrimeCompared to peers in intact families, adolescents in single-parent families and stepfamilies were more likely to engage in delinquency. This relationship appeared to be operating through differences in family processes—parental involvement, supervision, monitoring, and parentchild closeness—between intact and non-intact families.Source: Stephen Demuth and Susan L. Brown, “Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender,” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 41, No. 1 (February 2004): 58-81.Marriage and Family as Deterrents from Delinquency, Violence and CrimeA study using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health explored the relationship between family structure and risk of violent acts in neighborhoods. The results revealed that if the number of fathers is low in a neighborhood, then there is an increase in acts of teen violence. The statistical data showed that a 1% increase in the proportion of single-parent families in a neighborhood is associated with a 3% increase in an adolescent’s level of violence. In other words, adolescents who live in neighborhoods with lower proportions of single-parent families and who report higher levels of family integration commit less violence.Source: Knoester, C., & Hayne, D.A. (2005). “Community context, social integration into family, and youth violence.” Journal of Marriage and Family 67, 767-780.Children age 10 to 17 living with two biological or adoptive parents were significantly less likely to experience sexual assault, child maltreatment, other types of major violence, and non-victimization type of adversity, and were less likely to witness violence in their families compared to peers living in single-parent families and stepfamilies.Source: Heather A. Turner, “The Effect of Lifetime Victimization on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents,” Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 62, No. 1, (January 2006), pp. 13-27.#7- Sexual Activity and Teen PregnancyBeing raised by a single mother raises the risk of teen pregnancy, marrying with less than a high school degree, and forming a marriage where both partners have less than a high school degree.Source: Teachman, Jay D. “The Childhood Living Arrangements of Children and the Characteristics of Their Marriages.” Journal of Family Issues 25 (January 2004): 86-111.#8- There is causality. The role of poverty is indicated, in the cite below, as a cause but secondary to fatherlessness."The low supervision of adolescents frequently found in father-absent homes...was more often the cause of delinquency than poverty. Boys from father-absent homes are more likely to commit a school crime. The likelihood that a young male will engage in criminal activities doubles if he is raised without a father and triples if he lives in a neighborhood with a high concentration of single-parent families.Seventy percent of the juveniles in state reform institutions grew up in a single- or no- parent situations. Seventy-two percent of adolescent murderers grew up without fathers. In summary, fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk for drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality.Source-Forensic Mental Health Assessment- A Casebookpg. 158Written by:Kirk Heilbrun, Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Drexel University College of Medicine, ‎Psychology Section of the Department of Psychiatry Yale UniversityGeoffrey Marczyk Predoctoral Fellow and ‎David DeMatteo Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Intern, Medical College of VirginiaNOTE- While I agree that fatherlessness has a more direct cause to teen drug abuse, poor educational performance, criminality, etc., I do not shrug off poverty as less important. In my opinion, it is a cause, not of adolescent anti-social behavior, but of fatherlessness. It is at this level where, I feel, the problem should partly be addressed, and wherein lies a part to the ultimate answer to the original question. The scheme goes like this: poverty + lack of individual responsibility leads to fatherlessness which leads to teen problems.Now, let's get to the most emotionally-charged part. And let's be honest. Is this a black problem? A white problem? Or what? This is the part where people feel most uncomfortable.But it's an important question because the more you know the victims, the better solutions you can have.And the data suggests that the lack of live-in fathers is most striking in the black community. But it is not only a black problem.Here is the data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which publishes a report every year that includes a wealth of data about births in America. The most recent report, published in August 2012, is based on data from 2010.The report broke down statistics by ethnic groups. Here’s a summary:Racial or ethnic groupPercent of births considered "non-marital"Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders17 percentNon-Hispanic whites29 percentHispanics53 percentAmerican Indian and Native Alaskans66 percentNon-Hispanic blacks73 percentAnother chart below summarizes 2011 Census Bureau data compiled by Kids Count, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The group defined "children in single-parent families" as kids under 18 who live with their own single parent; it includes children living with a parent and a cohabiting adult, but it does not include children living with married step-parents.Racial or ethnic groupChildren in single-parent familiesAsian Americans and Pacific Islanders17 percentNon-Hispanic whites25 percentHispanics42 percentAmerican Indian and Native Alaskans53 percentNon-Hispanic blacks67 percentIt is not a 'black problem' only. In fact, even in places where the percentage of the black population declined, single parenthood increased over the past decade, according to The Washington Times’ analysis of census data. In South Carolina, where the black share of the population fell by 2 percent, single parenthood rose by 5 percent. In Kentucky and Louisiana, where the black population was constant, single parenthood increased 6 percentage points.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/25/fathers-disappear-from-households-across-america/#ixzz3ahYGXuXQSo what to do?Some of the solutions might be the same across the racial board and some might have to be specific. Take alcoholism and smoking cigarettes as an example. There are significantly more billboards pushing drinking and smoking in black neighborhoods than there are in white (not to mention liquor stores per capita). So any attempt to decrease drinking and alcoholism in black neighborhoods has to take this into consideration. It therefore requires a different set of answers than 'white neighborhoods'.Take economics, for example. The National Bureau of Economic Research found that "Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback; those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback."Employers' Replies to Racial NamesSo if a job gives oneself pride and higher self-esteem, in addition to better financial stability, we have to quickly realize that black men have a much higher hurdle to overcome than a white man as far as maybe the single most important factor effecting fatherhood- a job.So there is no doubt in my mind that there are higher barriers effecting many black men from becoming more responsible fathers. These barriers need to be addressed more than they have been, so that non-whites feel they have an equal shot at the pie.But I am not taking the unemployed, uneducated individual off the hook. Individuals have to have accountability.In his book “Enough,” journalist Juan Williams points out that, “The answer to the question of how to create opportunities for the poor is to get them to take school seriously, to set up high academic expectations for their children and to insist on high expectations from teachers in good schools. It is also a personal matter of self-control that begins with understanding the power of the family and putting love, romance, and children (as well as knowing how to be good parents) in their proper order.”Linda Chavez, the former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, echoes this sentiment. She says that the “chief cause of poverty today among blacks is no longer racism: it is the breakdown of the traditional family.”Page on commdiginews.comA real-life example of this: About 15 years ago the District of Columbia public schools district was very concerned about its students' poor academic performance and absenteeism. Minorities make up the vast majority of its students.As a way to combat this problem the District decided to hold a district-wide meeting with parents of the students, in order to discuss ways to solve this problem. They sent out mailers and made phone calls telling the parents the time and place of the meeting. Of the ~45,000 students which make up the District less than 10 parents showed up!When I first heard this I thought 'of course- these people can't take off work, or maybe don't have a car and can't afford the time and expense to go by bus, etc.Except the District decided to try again. This time they offered free food as an enticement. Attendance jumped to over 1,000 parents.Here are some interesting quotes:Juan Williams-(Anyone who just wants to blame poverty can) .... say this with a straight face, even though they say this knowing that in 1964, in a far more hostile and racist America, 82 per cent of black households had both parents in place and close to half of those households owned a business.”President Obama-“If we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that too many fathers are…missing…from too many lives and too many homes. ....We know that more than half of all black children live in single parent households, a number that has doubled since we were children.”Here is a fascinating statistic-Economist Walter Williams notes that:“black Americans as a group have made some of the largest gains over some of the highest hurdles in the shortest time of any group in history.If black Americans were a nation, they would be the sixteenth richest on earth.Some of the richest, and most famous, people in the world are black Americans. Colin Powell led the mightiest army in human history. In 1865 neither a slave nor a slave owner would have believed this kind of progress was possible in a little over a century, if ever. As such it speaks to the intestinal fortitude of a people and, just as important, to the greatness of the nation where such gains were possible — gains that would have been impossible anywhere except the United States.”Yet, Williams points out:“For many blacks, these gains are elusive, perhaps for 30 percent of our community.It does the poor no favors to blame their problems on racism, which has been diminishing as the pathologies got worse. In 1940, the black illegitimacy rate was around 14 percent. Now, it’s 75 percent. In 1870, right after slavery, 70 to 80 percent of black families were intact. Now only 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families.Some 51 percent of homicide victims are black, as are 95 percent of their killers. You can’t blame this on white people. The rotten schools black kids attend are mostly in cities where black adults are in control and spending a lot of taxpayers’ money on those schools.”Page on commdiginews.comIt doesn't help a struggling woman caring for her child alone, whether she is Black, White, Hispanic or Asian, if people are afraid to talk about the problems she has out of fear of being thought of as a racist. Or if they want to drop all the responsibility for it at the foot of 'the system', and ignore the fact that things are significantly better today than they were 50-75 years ago, but that the fatherless trend is still shooting upwards.The solution is in both the system and individual. Anyone who is serious about changing these trends need first to recognize them and point their finger right in the face of those who need to do better. Whatever color they are.

Most eventually returned. Some gave a reason for staying in the North, some didn’t.They were all given dishonorable discharges which had the unintended consequence of of rendering them immune to court-martial when they finally returned to the United States because they were no longer active-duty military.1: Adams, Clarence (Cpl.). A soldier from Memphis, Tennessee. Adams, an African-American, cited racial discrimination in the United States as the reason he refused repatriation. While a prisoner, Adams took classes in Communist political theory, and afterwards lectured other prisoners in the camps. Because of this and other collaboration with his captors, his prosecution by the Army was likely upon his repatriation. During the Vietnam War, Adams made propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi from their Chinese office, telling black American soldiers not to fight: "You are supposedly fighting for the freedom of the Vietnamese, but what kind of freedom do you have at home, sitting in the back of the bus, being barred from restaurants, stores and certain neighborhoods, and being denied the right to vote. ... Go home and fight for equality in America." Adams married a Chinese woman and lived in China until the increasingly anti-Western atmosphere of the Cultural Revolution led him to return to the United States in 1966. The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed Adams upon his return but did not question him publicly. He later started a Chinese restaurant business in Memphis. Clarence Adams died in 1999. Adams' autobiography An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China was posthumously published in 2007 by his daughter Della Adams and Lewis H. Carlson.2: Adams, Howard Gayle (Sgt.). From Corsicana, Texas. He worked in a paper factory in Jinan. He refused all media requests for interviews.3: Belhomme, Albert Constant (Sgt.). A native of Belgium who emigrated to the United States as a teenager. He lived in China for ten years, working in a paper factory in Jinan, before returning to Antwerp.4: Bell, Otho Grayson (Cpl.). Originally from Olympia, Washington. Chose not to return despite having a wife and baby girl back in the United States. In China, Bell was sent to a collective farm with William Cowart and Lewis Griggs (see below). Bell described himself, Cowart and Griggs as "the dummy bunch", saying they were sent to the farm because they could not learn Chinese. They returned to the United States together in July 1955, were arrested, but were released when it was found that the military no longer had jurisdiction over the defectors after they were dishonorably discharged. Bell died in 2003.5: Corden, Richard (Sgt.). A native of Chicago. He returned to the United States in January 1958. He was reported to live in Milwaukee in 1961 and moved to Chicago in 1962. He reportedly continued to support Communism after returning to the United States. He died in 1988.6: Cowart, William (Cpl.). Returned with Bell and Griggs (see below). Later the three soldiers sued for their back pay. The case went to the United States Supreme Court, which held that Bell, Cowart and Griggs were entitled to their back pay from the time they were captured to the time they were dishonorably discharged.7: Douglas, Rufus (Sgt.). Died in China a few months after arrival in 1954. The manner of his death is not certain but is believed to have been from natural causes.8: Dunn, John Roedel (Cpl.). Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on 29 June 1928. He married a Czechoslovak woman while in China and settled in Czechoslovakia in December 1959. Died in Slovakia in 1996.9: Fortuna, Andrew (Sgt.). Originally from Greenup, Kentucky. He was awarded two Bronze Stars for his service in Korea before he was captured. He returned to the United States on 3 July 1957. He worked in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1958; in Detroit, Michigan, from 1963–64; and Chicago in 1964. He was reported to be in Gary, Indiana, as of 1964. He died in 1984.10: Griggs, Lewis Wayne. Returned with Bell and Cowart in 1955. He was listed as a senior majoring in sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University, graduating in 1959. He died in 1984.11: Hawkins, Samuel David (Pfc.). From Oklahoma City. He married a Russian woman in China and returned to the United States in February 1957, shortly before his wife was permitted to come to the United States. He successfully petitioned the government to change his discharge from dishonorable to other than honorable. He raised a family, and has given interviews to the press on the condition that his location not be disclosed.12: Pate, Arlie (Cpl.). Worked in a paper mill before returning with Aaron Wilson (see below) in 1956. He died in 1999.13: Rush, Scott (Sgt.). Married in China. After living in China for ten years, he and his wife moved to the United States and settled in the Midwest.14: Skinner, Lowell (Cpl. ). His mother begged him to come home over the radio at the time of the prisoner exchange, to no avail. He married in China, but left his wife behind when he returned to the United States in 1963. Later he had problems with alcohol and spent six months in a psychiatric hospital. He died in 1995.15: Sullivan, LaRance. Returned in 1958 and died in 2001.16: Tenneson, Richard (Pfc.). Returned in 1955. He went to Louisiana a few months later to welcome home fellow defector Aaron Wilson (see below). He settled in Utah before dying in 2001.17: Veneris, James (Pvt.). (1922–2004), From Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. He stayed in China and became a dedicated Communist, taking the Chinese name 'Lao Wen'. He worked in a steel mill, participated in the Great Leap Forward, hung posters during the Cultural Revolution, married three times and had children. He visited the United States in 1976, but returned to China where he is buried.18: Webb, Harold (Sgt.). From Jacksonville, Florida. He married a Polish woman in China and moved to Poland in 1960, reportedly settling in Katowice. In 1988, he was given permission to settle in the United States. He is the subject of the Youth Defense League song "Turncoat" about rejection of a Korean War defector seeking a return to America.19: White, William (Cpl.). Married and obtained a bachelor's degree in international law while in China. He returned to the United States in 1965.20: Wills, Morris (Cpl.). From Fort Ann, New York.[7] He played basketball for Peking University and got married in China. He returned to the U.S. in 1965 and got a job in the Asian Studies Department at Harvard University. His autobiography, Turncoat: An American's 12 Years in Communist China, was published in 1966. He died in 1999.21: Wilson, Aaron (Cpl.). (1932–2014) Originally from Urania, Louisiana. Cpl. Wilson was one of the five American defectors who never went beyond the eighth grade as a child. He was captured in 1950, during the first days of the Chinese-led counteroffensive that stymied the US gains on territory held by the North Koreans. His lack of education and three years of indoctrination are cited as reasons for his decision to stay. He returned to the U.S. on 6 December 1956. Wilson married an American woman and worked in his Louisiana hometown's mill. Later in life Wilson flew a U.S. flag from an 18-foot pole in his front yard. For an interview he gave to the Korean War Veterans Association in 2002 he told the interviewer, "This is the greatest country in the world, and maybe when I was 17 years old I didn't know it, but I do now." He died in 2014. List of American and British defectors in the Korean War - WikipediaBecause of the problem of collusion the military issued the Military Code of Conduct in 1955 and required all soldiers to memorize it. The Code details expected behavior of soldiers taken prisoner. When I was in the Army I had to memorize it and be able to repeat any article upon being asked and I was asked. For instance some soldier chose to reject the leadership of officers believing since they were prisoners they were no longer required to accept orders from officers. The Code addressed that and other concerns exposed by the Korean experience. What US Military Personnel Must Do If They Become A POWAn American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China: Clarence Adams: 0884891327275: Amazon.com: BooksPrisoners of WarCode of the United States Fighting Force - WikipediaTurncoat: the Skinhead Youth Defense League song about Sgt. Harold Webb

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Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering, Rice UniversityProfessor of Medicine, Baylor College of MedicineMoake Laboratory in Hematological ResearchM.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1967)B.A., Johns Hopkins University (1964)Dr. Joel Moake specializes in platelet function in blood. His lab focus on the molecular events associated with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)- especially, the interaction between the adhesive multimeric protein, von Willebrand factor (VWF), and the VWFcleaving metalloprotease enzyme, ADAMTS-13. »Jordan S. MillerAssistant Professor of BioengineeringPostdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania (2008-2013)Ph.D., Bioengineering, Rice University (2008)B.S., Biology, minor in Biomedical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003)Physiologic Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials LaboratoryMiller's expertise in biomaterials and regenerative medicine combines synthetic chemistry, 3D printing, microfabrication, and molecular imaging to direct cultured human cells to form more complex organizations of living vessels and tissues. »Junghae SuhAssociate Professor in BioengineeringSynthetic Virology LaboratoryPostdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute for Biological Studies (2005-2007)Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2004)B.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999)Junghae Suh specializes in designing and investigating gene delivery vectors for various applications in biomedicine. Her Rice laboratory combines broad-based knowledge of protein engineering and molecular/cell biology to engineer the properties of naturally occurring viruses for the treatment of debilitating human diseases. »Ka-Yiu SanE.D. Butcher Professor of BioengineeringProfessor of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringMetabolic Engineering and Systems Biotechnology LaboratoryPostdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1984)Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1984)M.S., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1981)B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Chemical Engineering, Rice University (1978)Ka-Yiu San applies various chemical and bioengineering processes to discover how biological systems, such as E. coli, can be manipulated and used as catalysts to create useful products. »Z. Maria OdenFull Teaching Professor, BioengineeringDirector, Oshman Engineering Design KitchenPostdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School (1994-1997)Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University (1994)M.S., Biomedical Engineering,Tulane University (1991)B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University (1989)As director of the OEDK and as a full teaching professor of bioengineering, Maria Oden coordinates the technical design efforts of the department, and the Global Health Technologies minor. »Michael W. DeemJohn W. Cox Professor in Biochemical and Genetic EngineeringProfessor, Physics and AstronomyChair, Department of BioengineeringFounding Director, Ph.D. Program in Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology (SSPB)Deem GroupPostdoctoral Fellow, Physics, Harvard University (1995-1996)Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (1994)B.S., with honors, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1991)Michael Deem works in the area of evolution, immunology, and materials. He has brought tools from statistical physics to bear on problems in these areas. »Michael R. DiehlAssociate Professor of BioengineeringAssociate Professor of ChemistrySynthetic Biology and Macromolecular Systems Bioengineering GroupBeckman Senior Research Fellow, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,California Institute of Technology (2002-2005)Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles (2002)B.S., Chemistry, The College of New Jersey (1997)Michael Diehl uses an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the complex function of proteins when they interact as functional groups. »Oleg A. IgoshinAssociate Professor of BioengineeringCellular Systems Dynamics LabPostdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis (2004-2006)Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2004)M.Sc., Chemical Physics, Feinberg Graduate School,Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2000)B.Sc., Physics, summa cum laude, Novosibirsk State University, Russia (1998)Oleg Igoshin's work in computational systems biology focuses on evolutionary design principles and the characterization of biochemical networks, pattern formation in bacterial biofilms, and genetic networks in bacterial and stem cell development. »Omid VeisehAssistant Professor of Bioengineering,CPRIT Scholar in Cancer ResearchPostdoctoral Fellow, MIT and Harvard Medical School (2011-2016)Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering and Nanotechnology, University of Washington (2009)B.S., Cell Biology, Western Washington University (2002)Omid Veiseh’s laboratory focuses on the development, processing, and evaluation of novel platforms of implantable and or injectable technologies for in vivo cell and drug delivery and biochemical sensing. This involves characterizing mechanisms of disease pathology and modulating immune system interactions for improved compatibility to biomaterials. »Rebecca Richards-KortumMalcolm Gillis University ProfessorProfessor of BioengineeringProfessor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringDirector, Rice 360°: Institute for Global HealthFounder, Beyond Traditional BordersOptical Spectroscopy and Imaging LaboratoryPh.D., Medical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990)M.S., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987)B.S., Physics and Mathematics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1985)Richards-Kortum combines nanotechnology and molecular imaging with microfabrication technologies to build optical imaging systems that are inexpensive, portable, and provide point-of-care diagnosis. »Rebekah A. DrezekProfessor of BioengineeringProfessor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringAssociate Chair, Department of BioengineeringOptical Molecular Imaging and Nanobiotechnology LaboratoryPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (2001-2002)Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2001)M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1998)B.S., summa cum laude, Electrical Engineering, Duke University (1996)Rebekah Drezek develops optical molecular imaging technologies for the in vivo assessment of tissue pathology and for the quantitative analysis of nanoparticle uptake and interaction within cellular environments »Renata RamosLecturerDirector, Bioengineering Undergraduate StudiesPostdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University (2008-2010)Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona (2008)B.S., summa cum laude, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering / Mechanical Design,Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Chihuahua, México (2002)Renata Ramos is an instructor for several project-based laboratory modules and lecture courses for Rice's bioengineering program and the George R. Brown School of Engineering. »Robert M. RaphaelAssociate Professor, BioengineeringDirector, Bioengineering Graduate StudiesPrincipal Investigator, Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine Neuroengineering IGERTMembrane and Auditory Bioengineering GroupPostdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (1998-2001)Postdoctoral Fellow, Hearing Science, Johns Hopkins University (1996-1998)Ph.D., Biophysics, University of Rochester (1996)M.S., Biophysics, University of Rochester (1992)B.S., Physics/Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (1989)Raphael investigates how the coupling between mechanical, electrical and transport properties of biomembranes regulates cellular processes. The research is producing insights into the causes and treatment of hearing loss and deafness. »Sheng TongSenior Faculty FellowLaboratory of Biomolecular Engineering and NanomedicinePostdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering, University of California at San Diego (2003-2006)Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University (2003)M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Peking University (1998)B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (1995)Sheng Tong develops nano- technologies for the early detection and treatment of atherosclerosis, cancer and many other human diseases. »Tomasz S. TkaczykAssociate Professor in BioengineeringAssociate Professor in Electrical and Computer EngineeringModern Optical Instrumentation and Bio-imaging LaboratoryPostdoctoral Fellow, Applied Optics, The University of Arizona, Tucson (2002 – 2003)Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Imaging, The University of Arizona, Tucson (2001 – 2002)Ph.D. Optical Engineering and Physical Optics, Optical Engineering Div. of the Institute of Micromechanics & Photonics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (2000)MS. Eng. Optical Engineering, Department of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (1994)Tkaczyk develops platform optical instruments that combine technologies in optics, opto-mechanics, electronics and software, and bio-chemical materials for the early detection and treatment of disease. »Volker SchweikhardResearch Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder (2009)Diplom Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2001)Schweikhard investigates how biological cells communicate to organize and maintain functional tissues and organs, and how these mechanisms fail in disease. »Grant to Rice, Baylor College of Medicine and UT McGovern Medical School to push reconstructive surgery