Graduate student winners from GW Research Days 2016


February 27, 2016

Congratulations to all SEAS students who participated in the annual GW Research Days event! The following graduate students received awards:

Day 1: Engineering

Group A

1st Place: Margaret Nowicki (MAE; Advisors: Profs. Grace Zhang and Michael Plesniak)

Poster: “Three dimensional printing of gradient scaffolds to bridge the gap between bone and cartilage for osteochondral defect repair”

Group B

1st Place: Ian Carr (MAE; Advisor: Prof. Michael Plesniak)
Poster: “Three-dimensional separation over a wall-mounted obstacle in pulsatile flow”

2nd Place: Shuai Sun (ECE; Advisor: Prof. Volker Sorger)
Poster: “Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Interconnects (HyPPI): a low latency, energy and area efficient on-chip interconnects” 
 

Day 2: Biomedical Engineering

1st Place (Tie): Elizabeth Hubler (MAE; Advisor: Michael Plesniak)

“Self-oscillating vocal fold model mechanics associated with aging”

1st Place (Tie): Ivan Suarez Castellanos (BME; Advisors: Profs. Vesna Zderic and Aleksandar Jeremic)

Poster: “Ultrasound stimulation of insulin release from pancreatic beta cells”