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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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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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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ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference Congratulations Jami Saffioti for being accepted to present her work at the ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference to be held in Sunriver, OR on June 26-29, 2013. Jami will be presenting “Age Dependent And Anisotropic Material Properties Of Immature Porcine Sclera” during the poster session....
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The Society of Women Engineers has reviewed the scholarship applications and awarded Jami Saffioti the Ada I. Pressman Memorial Scholarship for the 2013-2014 Academic Year. This is the second year Jami has received the scholarship and will continue to use it to pay for differential tuition, text books, student insurance and...
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11th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering Congratulations Jami Saffioti, Greg Scott, and Dan Shedd for being accepted to present their work at the 11th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering to be held in Salt Lake City, UT on April 3-7, 2013. ...
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Patrick Moran successfully defended his Master’s thesis today. His thesis, Characterization of the vitreoretinal interface and vitreous in the porcine eye as it changes with age, set the foundation for identifying age related changes in structure and mechanical properties of the eye. Patrick has accepted a position in the professional development program at T.D. Williamson...
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The Society of Women Engineers has awarded Jami Saffioti the Ada I. Pressman Memorial Scholarship for the 2012-2013 Academic Year. The scholarship committee reviewed over 1,500 applications and awarded only 7 Memorial Scholarships in the United States! Awards were given to female candidates in engineering who demonstrate “outstanding academic achievement as well as strong engineering...
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