Congratulations to Carolyn, who passed her Prelim and is now a PhD Candidate!

Jacque has recently volunteered to act as a mentor to two local students who are interested in STEM through the Carolina ADMIRES (Assisting in Development and Mentoring an Innovative Research Experience in Science) program. The program is designed for 8th and 9th grade students who are interested in careers in STEM.

Congratulation to Hui, who passed her prelim and is now officially a Doctoral Candidate. That’s two prelims in two days for OML, how exciting!

Congrats to Jon, who has passed his Prelim and is now officially a doctoral candidate!

Amir, Austin, and Chris all graduated from the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of biomedical engineering today. We’re so happy for them, but they will be sorely missed in the lab.

Harsha Pinnamaraju’s research proposal was selected for a Summer Research Grant for the NCSU Office of Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Harsha!

Elizabeth presented her research at the 25th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at NC State. Her poster was titled “Obesity and Exercise-induced Bone Microarchitecture Changes are Associated with Bone Blood Perfusion in Mice”.

The first annual National Biomechanics Day was held on April 7, 2016. Its goal was to attract high school students to the emerging field of biomechanics. We had students from several local schools come to Centennial Campus and tour some of the labs in our department, including the OML. Our content focused on the importance of bone micro-architecture and cellular activity. Also, Andy used a hand-crank three point bending system to break a chicken bone, which was pretty neat!

Andy gave a podium talk at the ORS (Orthopaedic Research Society) annual meeting in Orlando earlier this month. Congrats Andy!

Jacque, Andy, Carolyn, Hui, and Amir once again teamed with the The Engineering Place, this time to teach middle school school students about bone repair at their Bits and Bytes Engineering Day for middle schoolers. We may have had even more fun than the students!