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Taking time at the end of a busy year to celebrate our lab.

Visiting Zheliang University and Tsinghua University Visiting Rui Xiao and Zheng Jia at Zheliang and attending a liquid crystal elastomer conference. The funnest part was meeting with Rui and Zheng’s students and learning about their work. Thanks, Rui, for organizing everything. In Tsinghua, I visited Huajian Gao’s newest institute and reconnected with old friends and […]

Atlanta, GA It was wonderful to reconnect with colleagues at SES, catch up with former students and postdocs, and celebrate at the banquet. The awards celebration was very special. Thank you to KT Ramesh and Guy Genin for nominating me for the Rice Medal and other awards. Thank you to the students and postdocs of […]

Sending Bibek off  on his next adventure as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Labs.

Tampere, Finland Geeking it out on LCEs with colleagues and friends, including Albert Shenning, Jerry Qi, Taylor Hebner.

 Coupled Theory and Computational Modeling of Active Hydrogels Active elastomeric hydrogels can undergo large deformation and shape change in response to a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biomolecular stimuli, such as temperature, pH, ionic strength, electric field, light, etc. In the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the synthesis technique and […]

Lyon, France It was a rare treat to present at the European Solid Mechanics Conference in Lyon and running into Rui Xiao, original NguyenLab member.  He’s doing amazingly well at Zheliang University.

Albuquerque, NM Catching up with alumni has become a highlight of conferences. It was great to catch up with Seda Aslan and see her present on the Aorta simulation studies. I also saw Hai Dong’s and Arena Korneva’s students present for the first time.

One of the happiest days of the year.  Graduations and the Hooding of new Doctors of Philosophy.  Congratulations Beijun Shen. I am incredibly proud at  what you’ve accomplished. Congratulations Seda Aslan! It was a pleasure working with you and Axel the past couple of years.

Congratulations to Patricia and Kelly for their great presentations at ARVO.  This is Patricia’s first ARVO, and she presented work done her first year at JHU!