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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Congratulations to Jami Saffioti, Greg Scott, and Dan Shedd who were accepted to present their work at the 9th Annual Utah Biomedical Engineering Conference held in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, September 7th, 2013. Three students from the Pediatric Injury Biomechanics lab attended and presented research posters at the 9th Annual Utah...
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Last week, Dan Shedd passed the oral qualifying PhD exam. Dan presented his knowledge on subjects such as Strengths of Materials, Biomechanics, and Finite Elements. Congratulations Dan!...
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