MAE congratulates our student winners in this year’s GW Research Days. The GW Research Days showcase is an annual event dedicated to highlighting the breadth of research and discovery on issues of major disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and global significance being done at GW through poster sessions, presentations and guest speakers.
Our student winners include:
Undergraduate Presenters
Engineering:
1 st Place:
Samantha Racan and Isaac Finberg for “Investigation of Polymeric Scaffold Degradation for Bone Regeneration Applications”
Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Plesniak
2nd Place (Tie with Department of Computer Science student):
Philip Paulson for “Mucosal Waves in Self-Oscillating Synthetic Vocal Fold Models”
Research Mentor: Dr. Michael Plesniak
Graduate Presenters
Biomedical Engineering:
1 st Place:
Nima Mobadersany for “Perforation of Cell Membranes Using Encapsulated Microbubbles in the Presence of Ultrasound”
Research Mentor: Dr. Kausik Sarkar
Jenna Osborn for “Ultrasound and Lipid-coated Microbubbles for Bone Tissue Engineering on 3D Printed Scaffolds”
Research Mentor: Dr. Kausik Sarkar
Special Prize Categories
GWNIC Award for Nanofabrication Techniques
2 nd Place:
Rachel Gray for “Energy Materials Analysis for Additive Manufacturing by Selective Laser Melting”
Research Mentor: Dr. Saniya LeBlanc
AccelerateGW I-Corps Site Grants
Se-Jun Lee for “Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Conductive 3D Scaffolds for Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Schwann Cell-like Phenotypes”
Research Mentor: Dr. Lijie “Grace” Zhang