Stevens Team Named a Winner at the 2008 ISPE NJ Chapter Student Poster Competition

A team of students from Stevens Institute of Technology was one of the winners at the 2008 International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering's (ISPE) New Jersey chapter student poster competition. The team was selected for their poster, " Back Up: Expandable Intervertebral Cage with Rotational Insert." Steve Gadol, Fred Hardenbrook, William Kowalski, Adrienne Quiray, and Michael Trapani were members of the biomedial engineering project team. The team will participate in the international competition in Orlando.

This ISPE event is held annually at one of the three area institutes (Stevens, Rutgers University or NJIT) with active Student Chapters. This year the event was held on April 24 at the Piscataway Campus of Rutgers University and included 18 student poster presentations. The panel of judges, comprised of senior managers from industry, evaluated the poster presentations on the basis of overall appearance, technical content and presentation.

Trapani was one of the two top-scoring student members from each student chapter, and he will travel to the ISPE Annual Meeting in October to participate in the international competition. The New Jersey chapter currently holds first place honors in the undergraduate division after Stevens' Kate Freed won last year's international competition.