Christopher Creveling and Dr. Brittany Coats attended the 2018 ARVO conference in Honolulu, Hawaii to present research from our lab to other ophthalmologists around the world. Christopher’s gave a podium presentation (only offered to ~11% of abstract submissions!) on his work measuring the strength of adhesion between the vitreous and retina in different ages and in different...
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Congratulations Jourdan on your new engineering position at the Johnson & Johnson Vision group. Best of luck in your future endeavors as a human factors engineer!...
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Name: Yousef Alsanea Hometown: Kuwait City, Kuwait Previous Degrees, Institutions: BS University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering Research Interests/Project: Evaluating effects of skull thickness distribution variability in infant skull fracture patterns Interests outside of Research: I enjoy playing music (any instrument!) and reading What can’t you live without: Eating food! Favorite place to eat in SLC or surrounding...
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Congratulations Dan on your new research position at Center for Applied Biomechanics at University of Virginia. Best of luck in your future endeavors as a research associate!...
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Name: Kyle O’Sullivan Hometown: Freehold, NJ Previous Degrees, Institutions: BS in Neuroscience from Allegheny College, PA Research Interests/Project: The interaction between brains and machines, specifically the improvement of foreign body response and brain-computer interface longevity. My project focuses on minimizing the tissue damage caused by the insertion and subsequent movement of the electrode. Honors/Awards: Psi...
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Name: Jiawei Yan Hometown: Shanghai, China Previous Degrees, Institutions: BS, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering Research Interests/Project: Develop computational model for predicting crack propagation and resulting fracture patterns in infant cranial bone Interests outside of Research: Traveling Tell us something about yourself that otherwise we wouldn’t know or guess: I played the piano almost for 10 years before I...
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Congratulations to Dan Shedd who passed his PhD dissertation defense on July 27, 2017. His dissertation, Ocular Injury Following Primary Blast Exposure, had the goal to understand long-term closed globe ocular injury progression from primary blast exposure, and to identify potential physical injury mechanisms. Best of luck in your future endeavors Dan!...
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Name: Maya Ellis Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT Previous Degrees, Institutions: BS (in progress), University of Utah, Biomedical Engineering Research Interests/Project: Evaluating the incidence of closed-globe related trauma following blast exposure in veterans. Honors/Awards: Presidential Service Award 2012-2016 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Leadership Award 2016 Marine Corps Scholarship Recipient 2016- Youth Volunteer...
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Hi-GEAR: The lab was very excited to host a workshop for the high school women involved in the Hi-GEAR (Girls Engineering Abilities Realized) Camp run by the College of Engineering for the second time. The camp introduces students to engineering and computer science through hands-on learning projects. We had the women...
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Julia Morelli, an upcoming Sophomore at The University of Southern California, is spending her summer in the pediatric injury biomechanics lab to get insight and experience in ocular research at the University of Utah. Julia will be characterizing and evaluating changes in epithelial cell density by examining retinas that have been exposed to a pressure blast....
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