Students in Dr. Coats Developmental Head Injury lab, Dr. Czabaj’s composites lab, and Dr. Spear’s multiscale modeling lab celebrated the end of the year by having honey baked ham with family and friends. Thanks again for hosting Dr. Coats!
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Congratulations to Jourdan Colter, Jami Saffioti, Alex Williams, and Patrick Moran for publishing their collaborative effort titled, “Age-related changes in dynamic moduli of ovine vitreous.” The rapid degradation and low mechanical stiffness of vitreous makes it challenging to capture high rate properties quickly without interference from inertial and time-related artifacts. Our recent publication describes and validates an advanced rheometry technique that converts the immediate response of time-dependent data into high rate frequency-dependent data. The citation and approved copy of our manuscript can be found here.
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Name: Kendall McMillan Hometown: Alpine, UT Previous Degrees, Institutions: USMC – Calibration tech, BS Mechanical Engineering spring 2017 Research Interests/Project: Characterizing deformation of the eye during rapid head rotation using a custom built cyclic device and image processing. Honors/Awards: Sgt. USMC, 2007-2012 Interests outside of Research: Hiking, kayaking, running, animals, fixing things in my ancient house, landscaping/home improvement projects. Tell us something about yourself that otherwise we wouldn’t know or guess: I spent five years in the Marine Corps as a calibration tech and HAZMAT NCO. I have moved over 20 times in the last few years and have lived overseas in japan. […]
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Members of the Developmental Head Injury Biomechanics group presented their work at the recent World Congress of Biomechanics in Boston, MA. Held every 4 years, this conference attracts biomechanical engineers and scientists from around the world. Dr. Coats chaired a session on head injury biomechanics, as well as presented her and Greg Scott’s work related to the anatomy and biomechanics of the pia-arachnoid complex. Dan Shedd presented his research on vision behavior following blast exposure and Jami Saffioti presented her work investigating changes in sclera material properties with post-mortem time and in different storage conditions. Jourdan Colter was a finalist for the […]
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Congratulations to Jourdan for becoming a finalist in the BS poster competition at the World Congress of Biomechanics held July 6-11 in Boston. She presented her research titled Dynamic Moduli of Immature Ovine Vitreous using Advanced Rheology Techniques. This project was in conjunction with work from a previous Master’s student, Patrick Moran. This is Jourdan’s first conference submission and she is the lead author on a publication resulting from this work. Jourdan will be a MS student in the lab starting Fall 2014.
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Congratulations to Shaun Evans who passed his thesis exam on Jun 27, 2014. His thesis, Injury Mechanisms of Abusive Head Trauma, consisted of a compilation of three studies evaluating mechanisms of brain and eye injury from infant shaking. A second congratulations is deserved as his wife gave birth to their baby girl, Hazel, later that night. Best of luck in your future endeavors Shaun!
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Nnaoma Agwu, an upcoming Junior at Santa Clara University, is spending a month in the pediatric injury biomechanics lab as part of the Graduate Preparation Institute program at the University of Utah. Nnaoma will be characterizing the relaxation modulus of soft contact lenses as a comparison to some hydrogel equivalents tested earlier in our lab. Welcome to Utah Nnaoma!
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Many congratulation to Jami Saffioti, PhD and Greg Scott, MS for graduating! Jami defended her PhD dissertation, “Characterization of Pediatric Ocular Material Properties for Implementation into Finite Element Modeling” on June 2, 2014. Greg defended his MS thesis, “Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Pia-Arachnoid Complex” on June 4, 2014. It was an intense push to the end, but both succeeded marvelously. The lab celebrated their success at the Desert Edge Brewery.
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Many thanks to Greg and Harvest for letting use their backyard for our lab BBQ. It was a beautiful day and the food was good. It’s always fun spending time with the friends and family of lab members. Thank you Kiffer, as always, for taking some great photos to commemorate the event.
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Last week, Kiffer Creveling passed the oral qualifying PhD exam. Kiffer presented his knowledge on subjects such as Strengths of Materials, Biomechanics, Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations. Congratulations Kiffer!
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