News – Page 2 – Utah Head Trauma Lab

Congratulations Kendall McMillian!

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020u0633572

Congratulations to Kendall McMillian for your new position at ICU Medical. Best of luck in your future endeavors Kendall!...

Coats and Spear Receive DOJ Funding for Skull Fracture Prediction

March 1, 2020March 1, 2020u0633572

The Coats lab received a $557K award from the Department of Justice for Phase 1 of their project to investigate the effect of skull thickness variability on skull fracture patterns in infant. This project, in collaboration with Dr. Ashley Spear from the Multiscale Mechanics and Materials Lab, will characterize skull thickness variability across the...

SB3C 2019 Seven Springs, PA

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019u0633572

Dr. Brittany Coats, Nik Benko, Kiffer Creveling, Mitch Metcalf, Joseph Phillips, and Yousef Alsanea attended the 2019 SB3C conference in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania to present research from our lab to other bioengineers around the world. Nik gave a podium presentation on his work measuring the mechanical properties of the brain-skull interface. Mitch also gave a podium presentation on his...

The Lab welcomes the Women of HI-GEAR 2019

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019u0633572

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 third time. The camp introduces students to engineering and computer science through hands-on learning projects. We had the women...

Nik Benko levels up

November 6, 2018November 6, 2018u0633572

Congratulations to Nik Benko for successfully completing his dissertation proposal. Nik’s proposal focused on characterizing the pia arachnoid complex (PAC) of the human brain, computational techniques to further improve existing finite element models of the brain-skull interface, and evaluate a novel football smart helmet. Nik performed admirably and is one step closer to graduation....

Utah Head Trauma Alumni Visit the Lab

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018u0633572

Jami Soffioti, her family, and Jourdan Colter stop by to say hi to Dr. Coats and lab members early in October. We were so glad to see them and are happy to see everyone doing so well in the engineering field. Continue the great work you two!...

Congratulations Matt Byrne

August 20, 2018May 11, 2024u0633572

Matt Byrne successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Mechanical Engineering in front of his graduate committee as well as family and friends. His thesis, Morphology and Mechanics of Retinal Vasculature in Abusive Head Trauma, takes the first step in identifying morphological and mechanical differences in preterm and adult retinal vasculature. Congratulations on all your hard work! Best of luck...

The Lab welcomes the women from Hi-Gear 2018

June 15, 2018June 15, 2018u0633572

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...

ARVO 2018 Honolulu, HI

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018u0633572

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...

Congratulations Jourdan on your new research position!

May 5, 2018May 5, 2018u0633572

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!...