Bioengineering Professor Awarded Fulbright Award
Issue date: 8/23/05 Section: News Briefs
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Richard Magin, professor and head of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has received a Fulbright Traditional Scholar award to teach this autumn at the Technical University of Kosice in the Slovak Republic. He will teach a course in biomedical imaging and a graduate seminar in technical writing.
Magin will also do research for a textbook he plans to write on applications of fractional calculus in bioengineering.
"This reflects my growing realization of the importance of fractional calculus as a tool for modeling bioengineering systems," said Magin -- an interest, he said, that was stimulated by the pioneering work of Igor Podlubny of the Technical University of Kosice.
Podlubny has written a book on the subject and served as a reviewer for a series of articles by Magin appearing in the journal Critical Reviews in Bioengineering. The articles will form the basis of Magin's textbook -- the first of its kind on the subject -- supplemented with classroom examples and homework problems.
Magin hopes to work with Podlubny while in Kosice on the extension of fractional calculus models to the field of magnetic resonance imaging, a subject on which Magin has lectured and published widely.
Magin's Fulbright Scholar grant runs five months, beginning in October. His sponsor is professor Jozef Zivcak of TUK's Instrumental and Biomedical Engineering department.
The Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends some 800 U.S. scholars and professionals abroad each year. It is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, a private organization, on behalf of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Magin will also do research for a textbook he plans to write on applications of fractional calculus in bioengineering.
"This reflects my growing realization of the importance of fractional calculus as a tool for modeling bioengineering systems," said Magin -- an interest, he said, that was stimulated by the pioneering work of Igor Podlubny of the Technical University of Kosice.
Podlubny has written a book on the subject and served as a reviewer for a series of articles by Magin appearing in the journal Critical Reviews in Bioengineering. The articles will form the basis of Magin's textbook -- the first of its kind on the subject -- supplemented with classroom examples and homework problems.
Magin hopes to work with Podlubny while in Kosice on the extension of fractional calculus models to the field of magnetic resonance imaging, a subject on which Magin has lectured and published widely.
Magin's Fulbright Scholar grant runs five months, beginning in October. His sponsor is professor Jozef Zivcak of TUK's Instrumental and Biomedical Engineering department.
The Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program sends some 800 U.S. scholars and professionals abroad each year. It is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, a private organization, on behalf of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.