Congratulations to Dave Bell for successfully defending his PhD proposal!...
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Jake successfully defends MS thesis
Congrats to Jake Sullivan for successful defense of his Masters thesis entitled “Sub-failure Damage Mechanics in Cerebrovascular Injury”!...
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Dave’s abstract accepted for presentation at ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference
Dave’s abstract has been accepted for podium presentation at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Sunriver, Oregon (June 26-29, 2013). Dr. Monson is a contributing author. Abstract title: Cerebrovascular dysfunction following sub-failure axial stretch. Link to the abstract here....
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Nan-Wei’s abstract accepted for presentation at CMBBE 2013
Nan-Wei’s abstract has been accepted for podium presentation at the 11th Annual International Symposium for Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering here in Salt Lake City (April 3-6, 2013). Dr. Monson is a contributing author. Abstract title: Blood vessel response under various blast loadings: finite element simulation on a simplified cylinder. Link to...
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J Biomech Paper Accepted
Congratulations to Dave and Rahul on the acceptance of their paper Biaxial and failure properties of passive rat middle cerebral arteries by the Journal of Biomechanics!...
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Primary Children’s Foundation Award
We are honored to have received the Primary Children’s Medical Center Foundation Integrated Science Award to study the properties of pediatric cerebral blood vessels. This work will be done with Dr. Tony Donato (Internal Medicine) and Dr. Kurt Albertine (Pediatrics). The overall goal of the project is to better understand the response of the...
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2012 COE Research Report Features Our Group
Check out the nice feature on our research group in the latest College of Engineering Research Report (click image at right to view)....
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Dr. Coats receives DOD grant
Dr. Monson is a co-investigator on a DOD Vision Research Program grant recently awarded to Dr. Brittany Coats. The project will investigate long term vision loss as a result of blast exposure and will run from 2012-2015. Congratulations, Brittany!...
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Stewart’s abstract accepted for presentation at NNS 2012
Stewart’s abstract has been accepted for presentation at the National Neurotrauma Symposium in Phoenix (July 22-25, 2012). Contributing authors include Jordan, Dave, and Dr. Monson. Stewart was also awarded a $500 travel grant to help cover his expenses. Nice work, Stewart! Abstract title: Morphology and distribution of focal hemorrhage following primary blast injury. Link...
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Kevin’s abstract accepted for presentation at ASME SBC 2012
Kevin’s abstract on umbilical artery properties has been accepted for presentation as a poster at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Summer Bioengineering Conference in Puerto Rico (June 20-23, 2012). Contributing authors are Dr. Sean Esplin of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dr. Monson. Kevin has also been invited to participate in Masters student competition....
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