Natasha Patel, a senior Biomedical Engineering student and member of the BME Honors Academy, was selected as one of three students to represent Rutgers at the International Undergraduate Research Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil the week of November 20, 2004. Natasha, who conducts research on the mechanisms of acupuncture with Professors Helen Buettner and David Shreiber, was selected from a large pool of applicants on the basis of her research achievements and ability and willingness to act as an ambassador of Rutgers SOE.