Tonya Whitehead

biomedical engineering doctoral student, has been selected as a 2014 Tau Beta Pi Laureate. Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, awards the distinction of Laureate to students who have excelled in areas beyond their technical majors. Whitehead is one of a select group of 94 Laureates chosen since 1982 and the first Laureate from the Michigan Epsilon chapter of Tau Beta Pi. The award will be presented at the Tau Beta Pi 2014 Convention, to be held in in Spokane, Wash. in October.