The symposium aims to empower and encourage young women to consider and choose engineering, science, and technology fields as a career path. Women make up about half of the world’s population, however, their contribution to the fields is much less with the worldwide average of ~14% and Singapore R&D of ~30% (Yearbook of Statistics).

EPWS President Dr. Brigitte Mühlenbruch has been honoured with the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany in acknowledgement of her pioneering work in the promotion of women in science at national as well as European level. She received the Order of Merit by the German Federal President Joachim Gauck himself in Berlin on 6 October 2014 on the occasion of the Day of German Unity.

Yesterday, the United Nations Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon  visited WHO and urged for actions.

He said that  all  the United Nations and many partners are now joining forces to contain Ebola, under  the  “UN  Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER)”.

So the need for information, guidance and action is urgent also in our area. Thus we hereby want to share with you new information in our page: http://www.who.int/medical_devices/meddev_ebola/en/ 

The Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE is pleased to announce this exciting conference prior to SfN in Washington DC. The goal of the meeting is to discuss challenges to laying out the road maps addressing BRAIN grand challenges as have been discussed broadly by the scientific community with particular emphasis on engineering challenges to brain research through advancing innovative neurotechnologies, including but not limited to mapping neural circuits, understanding functional neural dynamics, controlling neural circuits and restoring function.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Myriam Pannetier-Lecoeur was awarded the "James Edward Zimmerman Award 2014" for her significant contribution to the development of a new generation of sensors with applications in the field of biomagnetism.

Call for abstracts - Biomedical Engineering International Conference, Hong Kong