Fourteen undergraduate students presented their thesis work on Friday, April 26^th and will graduate with honors this spring.

Colette Bare (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe)
Development of an In Vitro Inosculation Model for Vascularization of Engineered Cardiac Tissue

Jessica Bellows (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe)
Displacement Field Mapping of Collagen Microfiber Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

Emily Borkowski (Advisor: Gregory Jay)
The Role of Structure in the Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Recombinant Human PRG4

Elisa Bye (Advisor: Ian Wong)
Identifying Amoeboid and Mesenchymal Phenotypes in 3D Silk-Collagen Composite Hydrogels

Charlotte Merzbacher (Advisor: Ian Wong)
Image Analysis of Fibroblast to Myofibroblast Differentiation in 2D and 3D Models of Nanomaterial Exposure

Zachary Neronha (Advisor: Ian Wong)
Profiling the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in 3D Microenvironments Using Topological Data Analysis

Hannah Safford (Advisor: Anita Shukla)
β-lactamase Responsive Biomaterials for the Colorimetric Detection of Bacterial Infections

Beatriz Silveira de Arruda (Advisor: David Borton)
Characterizing the Kinematics of Purposeful Movement and Basic Locomotion in Rhesus Macaques

Thomas Skipper (Advisor: Michelle Dawson)
Modeling The Ovarian Cancer Microenvironment With Alginate-Gelatin Microspheres

Adriana Trejo-Sheu (Advisor: Harvey Silverman)
Methods and Analyzer for Large Data Sets to Quantify the Effects of Pre-Exposure to Opiate Drugs on Infants Through Cry Analysis

Brian Vuong (Advisor: Brett Owens)
Extending the Viability of Fresh Cartilage with a Novel High-Subzero Cryopreservation Approach

Soobin Wang (Advisor: Anita Shukla)
Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films for Controlled Delivery of Chemotherapeutics

Kelly Williams (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe)
Optimization of a Tissue Engineering Platform for ​In Vitro​ Scar Testing

Daniel Yang (Advisor: Gregory Jay)
Quadruped Gait and Regulation of Apoptotic Factors in Tibia-Femoral Joints Following Intra-Articular rhPRG4 Injection in Prg4 Null Mice: An Emerging Treatment for CACP in Humans