News about engineering mechanics research, speakers, students and more
PhD students, postdoc, receive Thomas J.R. Hughes fellowships (Aug. 24, 2021)
Experimental model of ovarian cancer shows effect of healthy cell arrangement in metastasis (Aug. 3, 2021)
How seal whiskers can help engineers design innovative technology (July 20, 2021)
Engineers show how cartilage can keep itself healthy (June 22, 2021)
Helping a lunar rover stay on the move (June 9, 2021)
Drying out: Prabhakar receives NSF CAREER Award to study moisture’s impact on polymer composites (June 7, 2021)
Virtual brain injury study identifies key factors in potential nerve-fiber damage (May 13, 2021)
Engineering advances are laying the groundwork for future exploration in space (May 5, 2021)
New aerospace option helps launch careers (April 8, 2021)
Advance could lead to personalized treatments for osteoarthritis (Feb. 16, 2021)
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2020 news archive
Research effort driving advances to combat traumatic brain injuries (Dec. 14, 2020)
Surprise twist: Chiral material reveals new phenomenon (Nov. 13, 2020)
Pivoting for new problems: Engine researchers drive mask insights (Nov. 2, 2020)
Stress relief: Engineer working to find hidden force within rocks (Sept. 22, 2020)
SEM honors Notbohm with Springer/Nature Young Investigator Lecture (Sept. 18, 2020)
Witzenburg lands NSF grant for research on soft tissue failure (Sept. 8, 2020)
CBE’s Mike Graham awarded prestigious Steenbock Professorship (July 27, 2020)
Developing new models to revolutionize design of soft materials (July 7, 2020)
Built for speed: Engineering alumni making modern experimental aircraft (June 24, 2020)
New tool for assessing heart muscle cells helps unlock their potential (June 17, 2020)
Shields up: Nanomaterial bests all others in blocking speeding projectiles (May 19, 2020)
Affairs of the heart: Researchers reveal how blood flow differs in men and women (April 23, 2020)
Structures lab wins design award (April 15, 2020)
No strings attached: Advance could enable remote control of soft robots (April 14, 2020)
Just add ice: Chilling concussed cells shows promise for full recovery (April 1, 2020)
Modeling foil design after seal whiskers (March 20, 2020)
Soft robots, hard achievements (March 18, 2020)
Wind energy: The feasible path to sustainable energy (March 15, 2020)
Witzenburg earns grant to help guide children’s heart surgeries (Feb. 4, 2020)
Gaining traction: Discovery sheds new light on how cells move (Jan. 23, 2020)
Focus on new faculty: Josh Roth, engineering personalized treatments for musculoskeletal diseases (Jan. 6, 2020)
2019 news archive
Mechanical engineering and medicine collide (Dec. 19. 2019)
Cell mechanics: Motion of the microscopic (Oct. 28, 2019)
Focus on new faculty: Curt Bronkhorst, shedding light on how materials deform and fail (Sept. 9. 2019)
Min earns NSF CAREER Award: Cutting ceramics loose from their difficult reputation (Aug. 7, 2019)
Prabhakar wins ASC Young Researcher Award (July 11, 2019)
Graham recognized for leadership in fluid mechanics research (June 20, 2019)
Powerful patterns: Discovery could unlock new abilities for soft materials (May 29, 2019)
Breaking bones and barriers: Program introduces young women to engineering, orthopedics (May 15, 2019)
Clearing the fog: Interdisciplinary effort targets traumatic brain injuries (May 1, 2019)
Metamaterials: From Spycraft to infinity and beyond (April 19, 2019)
Focus on new faculty: Jennifer Choy, taking precision to new levels with quantum systems (April 8, 2019)
Midwest SEM seminar wraps up for 2019 (March 25, 2019)
Less is more when it comes to the floor (March 1, 2019)
Crone elected president of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (Feb. 26, 2019)
Matters of the heart: Witzenburg predicts cardiovascular tissue failures (Feb. 21, 2019)
Groundbreaking UW-Madison research helping babies with heart defects (WKOW TV, Feb. 12, 2019)
2018 news archive
Prabhakar lands young investigator award for structural material work (Dec. 21, 2018)
To Mach 5 and beyond: Jack McNamara pushes the limits with hypersonic flight (Dec. 14, 2018)
Stefano Gonella steers earthquakes with LEGOs (Dec. 5, 2018)
Davide Bigoni applies extreme materials to extreme applications (Nov. 26, 2018)
Game changer: Christian Franck takes a new look at the lasting impacts of brain injuries (Nov. 12, 2018)
Focus on new faculty: Pujara goes with the flow (Oct. 24, 2018)
Focus on new faculty: Jennifer Franck is modeling complicated flows to improve energy systems (Oct. 22, 2018)
Focus on new faculty: Christian Franck studies cell stress and strain and damage in the brain (Sept. 19, 2018)
Shiva Rudraraju explores materials to make metal 3D printing a reality in manufacturing (July 1, 2019)
Focus on new faculty: Stephan Rudykh develops design rules for fine-tuned materials (June 29, 2018)
For understanding turbulence, the sky is the limit (May 7, 2018)
Notbohm receives NSF CAREER Award to decipher mechanical properties of fibrous materials (April 27, 2018)
Joshua Roth talks about new ways to treat osteoarthritis of the knee (April 12, 2018)
In revitalized robotics course, learning is far from automated (April 3, 2018)
John Considine talks about Forest Products Laboratory research of wood (March 29, 2018)
Gustavo Parra-Montesinos talks about fiber reinforced concrete—the future of coupling beams (March 20, 2018)
Midwest mechanics tradition: SEM Regional Student Conferences (Feb. 1, 2018)
The moving cell conundrum (Jan. 29, 2018)
Darryl Thelen speaks about the mechanical properties of tendons (Jan. 29, 2018)
2017 news archive
John Eaton uses MRI to understand elusive complex fluid flows (Nov. 27, 2017)
Focus on new faculty: Ramathasan Thevamaran, structuring materials to function how we need them to (Nov. 10, 2017)
Chiara Daraio speaks on plant nanobionics (Oct. 3, 2017)
Computer models for nonlinear designs: Structural dynamics go nonlinear in Matt Allen’s lab (May 2, 2017)