At the annual American Society of Biomechanics conference, held in Boulder, Colorado August 8-11, Jacque was given the Junior Faculty Research Award. The JFRA is a grant that can be used to generate pilot data and support early-career investigators. There were nine applications this year that were each reviewed based on the significance of the problem, the scientific approach, and the impact of the project on the candidate’s research program.

Jacque’s award application is titled “Changes in the Osteovascular Niche Following Ischemic Stroke in Mice.”

Congratulations!

Jacque is pictured here with Paul DeVita, National Biomechanics Day founder and ASB member, receiving her award.

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1. North Carolina State/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Stephanie Teeter): This group uploaded their demos to the ASB Teaching Repository, allowing others the opportunity to recreate them. The NC State/UNC team consisted of six independent laboratories who hosted unique demos covering a wide variety of topics in biomechanics and motor control, ranging from applications of material property testing in orthopedic care to the design of exoskeletons used to assist human locomotion. This group also hosted a scavenger hunt based on the demos to further engage the students. Overall, this event was an interactive and exciting showcase of biomechanics which introduced the students to biomechanics research and the impact it can have on the world!

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Many congratulations are in order for Stephanie, who was one of 12 nominees selected for the University Award for Excellence, which is the highest honor a non-faculty member can receive! Despite stiff competition, the committee recognized her outstanding contributions to the community. Now she goes on to compete for the Governor’s Awards for Excellence. Winners will be announced late this summer.

Per the website: “The NC State University Awards for Excellence recognize the notable contributions that are above and beyond an employee’s normal job responsibilities. These meritorious achievements or accomplishments should be so singularly outstanding that special recognition is justified.”

See the official announcement here.

We’re so excited to see Christian featured in Explore Wake Schools magazine. Christian was with us last summer and he was wonderful to have around. (Go to page 39 to see the segment about him).

Just in case you don’t want to deal with Flash, here are screen grabs of the article and a pretty snazzy photo from our lab [click to enlarge]

Elizabeth, Harsha, and Michael all presented on their research at the 26th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. Additionally, Elizabeth won an award for Top Presentation for her poster, titled “Validating Laser Doppler Flowmetry For In Vivo Longitudinal Measurements Of Bone Blood Perfusion”. We’re so lucky to have such amazing undergrads!

https://undergradresearch.dasa.ncsu.edu/congratulations-to…/

The second annual National Biomechanics Day took place on April 6, 2017. We taught about 50 local high school students more about this exciting field. Check out some photos below.

 

Jon demonstrating a mechanical testing system (and breaking some chicken bones)

 

Carolyn explaining how Twizzlers Filled Twists are a composite material

 

Nicholas showing off our mouse treadmill

 

Look at how many students participated!

 

It’s a tough job, but someone has to eat the leftover candy.

Nicholas did a great job presenting his talk and poster at the recent Orthopaedic Research Society meeting in San Diego!

Four of our undergrads had abstracts accepted AND received travel awards to present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of Memphis in April!! Congrats, Elizabeth, Harsha, Michael, and Sophie!

 

 

Once again it’s been exciting here in OML! Please scroll through our posts to see everything we’ve had going on.

Some highlights:

• Jacque and Nicholas went to Belgium to talk about the influence of exercise and diet on blood perfusion.
• We participated in the first annual National Biomechanics Day!
• We once again partnered with The Engineering Place to teach middle school students about bone repair.
• Andy gave a podium talk at ORS.
• Jon, Hui, and Carolyn all passed their prelims!
• Austin, Amir, and Chris graduated!

We took another group photo (and all accidentally wore shades of blue/green or gray/black). We swear we didn’t coordinate outfits that morning!

Here’s to a great 2017!

Jacque, Jon and Nicholas all travelled to Minneapolis for the annual Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) meeting. Both Jon and Nicholas were selected for talks, and they did a great job!