Farewell Lunch for Beijun Shen
Sending Beijun off to her new postdoc position at Columbia. Good luck Beijun!
Congratulations Dr. Beijun Shen
Viscoelastic Behavior and Energy Absorption of Main-chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers-Based Architected Materials Beijun Shen Energy absorption is essential in designing materials and structures for impact mitigation, vibration isolation, and energydissipation. Architected materials leveraging geometric instabilities, such as snap-through buckling, are effective at reversibly trapping energy but often lack strain rate sensitivity. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), […]
Holiday Party 2024
Decorating Christmas ornaments, lasagnas, and lots of fun.
SB3C 2024, Lake Geneva, WI
Great to catch up with Arina Korneva at SB3C. Arina is in her 2nd year as Assistant Prof at Virginia Tech.
Graduation 2024
It is always a treat to hood your Ph. D. student. Congratulations Cameron!
Lab Spring Party 2024
Garden brunch party. Good food and good company,
Fracture of Soft Materials Symposium, UT Austin, TX
It was great catching up with Zheliang Wang presenting at future faculty poster session at the symposium. Good luck Zheliang,
ARVO 2024, Seattle, WA
Kelly Clingo presented her research at ARVO, her first conference as a PhD student. She presented her new machine learning method for automated segmentation of the ON tissues.
Congratulations Dr. Cameron Czerpak!
Cameron did a great job. His thesis came together beautifully. Characterizing the Remodeling of the Lamina Cribrosa of Glaucoma Eyes Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss and affects roughly 80 million people worldwide. Glaucoma is characterized by progressive visual field loss from the death of retinal ganglion cell axons in the […]
Holiday Party
First holiday party since COVID upended everything. It was a lot of fun. We built gingerbread houses, ate lots of food, and did white elephant gift exchange. It was lots of fun.