Research Interests
Engineering Education, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials
Education
- Ph D: Bioengineering, (2018), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Champaign, IL
Dissertation/Thesis Title: Engineered hydrogels for tracking cell signaling from the outside-in
- BS: Bioengineering, (2012), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Champaign, IL
Selected Awards and Honors
- Department of Biomedical Engineering Teaching Excellence Award (2019), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
- ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division Best Poster Award (2017), Scholarship/Research - American Society for Engineering Education
- ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division Travel Award (2017), Scholarship/Research - American Society for Engineering Education
- Department of Bioengineering Student Leadership Award (2017), Leadership - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Outstanding (5 times) (2017) - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Department of Bioengineering Teaching Excellence Fellowship (2016), Teaching - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship Program (2016), Scholarship/Research - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Selected Presentations
- Introducing Upper-level Students to Primary Literature: A Comparative Assessment of Two Methods - 2019 BMES Annual Meeting , October 2019 - Philadelphia, PA