Updates

• December 4, 2008

  Congratulations to Zheying Guo for passing his preliminary exam.

• November 15, 2008

  I and my collaborator, Prof. Iain W. Stewart, are organizing a symposium entitled Mechanics of Liquid Crystals for The 2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, June 24-27, 2009, Blacksburg, VA.

• November 7, 2008

  Prof. P. Biscari from Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy will visit my lab in December.

• August 1, 2008

  Jeff Morelli presented his research on measuring gap formation in sutured horse tendons at the McNair Scholars/Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program/Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Summer Symposium.

• May 26, 2008

  Ratchada Sopakayang, a PhD student in ESM, has joined my lab.

• May 1, 2008

  Paolo Finotelli, a graduate student from Politecnico di Milano, will join my lab in May.

• April 17, 2008

  Prof. I. W. Stewart from University of Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom will visit our lab in July.

• April 29, 2008

  Zheying Guo will present our work at the ASME Bioengineering Conference in Marco Island, Florida, in June.

• April 15, 2008

  I am organizing a Symposium on Bioinspired Smart Materials and Structures at the Smart Materials Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems Conference

• March 12, 2008

  Prof. Dimitrije Stamenovic from Boston University, Boston, USA will visit our lab on March 12.