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”