Jason has defended last week and (of course) passed, making him Dr. Jason Cox! He already has a job lined up with Align Technology, the company behind Invisalign, and will be starting almost right away. He will very much be missed in the lab, but we wish him the best of luck in his new job and in everything else.  

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Yihan, who is co-advised by Jacque and Dr. Martin King in the College of Textiles, defended her dissertation yesterday and received an unconditional pass. We’re so proud!

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OML is very proud to have had two of our amazing undergrads graduate last weekend.

Vince will be heading to Madison, Wisconsin, to be a technical solutions engineer at Epic Systems. He will be be working with clients to implement changes to improve Epic’s healthcare database software.

Jennifer is will be working as a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) in the Raleigh area during her gap year and applying to medical schools for fall 2023. This summer she’s going to stick around the lab to help us out, so we’re relieved to not be losing her quite yet!

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Emily Fawcett, one of our amazing grad students, defended her PhD today, officially making her Dr. Fawcett. We’re so proud!

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Nicholas recently defended his dissertation and was hooded at graduation. Congrats!

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Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Doering, who defended today. That’s now two PhDs to come out of our lab!

Congrats to the newest #OML PhD, Dr. Jonathan Doering, who defended today, only a couple of weeks after his first child was born! #GradPack ⁦@NCStateGrad⁩ ⁦@BMEGrads⁩ ⁦@UNCNCSUBME⁩ pic.twitter.com/TIoNbqNLXR

— Jacque Cole (@JacqueColeLab) October 31, 2018

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Congratulations to Dr. Hui Cong, who graduated Saturday, May 12. She is our lab’s first PhD graduate, and was co-advised by Jacque and Dr. Martin King.

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Congratulations are in order to Hui who successfully defended on February 2. Her thesis, entitled “Studies of barbed surgical sutures associated with materials, anchoring, performance and histology” was accepted by her committee.

We’re so proud of you, Dr. Cong!

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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.