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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Lab BBQ to kick off the Fall 2013 Semester! The Pediatric Injury Biomechanics Lab kicked off the Fall 2013 semester with a BBQ at Dr. Brittany Coat’s House! Undergraduate lab members John Muhs, Sam Feinman, Justin Jones and Kiffer Creveling joined the group this year. Alex Williams was given a farewell card by lab members to congratulate him on his new engineering position at Bard Inc. Lab members, friends, and family enjoyed good food, drinks and hospitality by Dr. Coats and her husband.
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Lab BBQ to kick off the Fall 2012 Semester! The Pediatric Injury Biomechanics Lab kicked off the Fall 2012 semester with a BBQ at Citycreek Canyon! New lab members Dan Shedd and Greg Scott joined the group this semester. Lab members, friends, and family enjoyed good food, competitive games such as ladder golf and washers, and great conversation!
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