Farewell Lunch to Tracy
We had a lovely farewell lunch for Tracy who will be moving, with her newly conferred PhD, to a new postdoctoral position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. We will miss you in the lab.
Dr. Yik Tung Tracy Ling
Congratulations to Dr. Yik Tung Tracy Ling for her successful dissertation defense! It was our lab’s first dissertation defense in the COVID era and participants joined in person as well as on Zoom. The hybrid set up allowed many alumni of the Nguyen Lab and ME Department to join in the open portion of the […]
Farewell lunch for Yupin Shi
Yupin graduated with her MS in May and is moving to NYC to work as a design engineer at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Thank you Yupin for your hard work. We will miss you in the lab.
Lab BBQ
The pandemic has changed nearly all of our daily rhythms and yearly traditions but it hasn’t erased them altogether. Instead of our annual holiday party, we had an outdoor fall lab BBQ with fire pit and s’mores. While the masks were different, the good food and good company was the same.
Christmas Party 2019
The holiday party has become a fun tradition in the lab. We eat lots of food, do a white elephant gift exchange, play board games, take a new group picture, and toast to a new year.
Reunion at Zhejiang University
I had a wonderful opportunity to visit Zheliang University in Hangzhou, China, where Rui Xiao and Zheng Jia are now professors. They organized a wonderful visit for me, capped with a joint group meeting of their students. They each presented their research projects. I was impressed by the depth and creativity of their works. It's [...]
Catching up at SB3C
We had an impromptu lunch catching up with current and former lab members at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference at Seven Springs, PA. Sara Bentil is 3 years into her Assistant Professor position at Iowa State and attending her first SB3C. Kristin Myer is newly tenured at Columbia and returning from a [...]
Dr. Jiayu Liu
Congratulations to Dr. Jiayu Liu for his successful dissertation defense, “Mechanics-Based Design of Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Structures and Devices“. Abstract: Stimuli-responsive hydrogels undergo large swelling in response to a wide variety of stimuli, such as temperature, biochemical molecule, pH, electric or magnetic field. Programmable shape changing devices made from stimuli-responsive hydrogels have potentially wide-ranging applications, including [...]
A small reunion
One of the pleasures of teaching is seeing how well your former students are doing in their new adventures. I ran into JHU ME alumni Bailey Hannon and Martha Whiting, BS 2015 at ARVO. I taught them both in Biosolids and Martha built an essential test fixture for my lab as an REU student. Both [...]