Chris Schaffer, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has been awarded the 2009 Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Schaffer will be presented with the award at the ASEE conference in Austin, Texas, in June.

The award is conferred by ASEE's Biomedical Engineering Division to recognize contributions to biomedical engineering education by faculty members with no more than five years of teaching experience. The recipient is recognized for use of innovative teaching materials, curricula, textbooks and professional papers, as well as activity in the society or other organizations.

Schaffer, who joined the Cornell faculty in 2006, uses advanced optical techniques for in vivo studies of physiological processes in normal and diseased states. A primary area of his lab's research is the pathophysiology of small-scale strokes.