Katherine Freed Wins First Place at the International ISPE Undergraduate Poster Contest

Katherine Freed, undergraduate at Stevens Institute of Technology, won first place at the International ISPE Undergraduate Poster Contest in Las Vegas in November 2007. Freed was the first competitor from New Jersey to win this ISPE award. Her winning poster, "Impedance Mammography," was based on a project she created with her Senior Design team at Stevens.

Freed's winning poster illustrated an imaging system that was designed to create three-dimensional images of biological tissue according to electrical impedance properties. The system takes advantage of the differences in electrical conductivity between healthy and abnormal cells. In addition, the design is aimed at improving mammographic screening in women under the age of forty, who are not regularly screened.