Associate Professor Herbert Voigt, recently elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, has stepped into the office with a flourish, winning a $1 million grant from the Whitaker Foundation to help the society better fulfill its various missions. The money will create a job fair at the society's annual meeting and fund the consolidation of its administrative and editorial locations into a single office in Washington, D.C., under a new executive director. Plans call for the society's bimonthly Annals of Biomedical Engineering to become monthly by 2001; in the meantime, the infusion of funds means that the journal will continue to be available free on the Internet through 2000. Back at the College, Voigt's research centers on the auditory system -- understanding the neuronal circuitry in the cochlear nucleus.