BME graduate student Mike Wininger, an advisee of Professor Bill Craelius, was recently selected for the NSF's 2007 East Asian Pacific Summer Institute and awarded an internship for stem cell research at the National Taiwan University. The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide US graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand or Taiwan; an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location; and orientation to the society, culture and language.