Second-year M.S. student Wenxuan Lai received the Best Poster Award at the 2025 Graduate Research Symposium, hosted by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on visualizing osteocytes and the lacunar-canalicular network within human bone using Cornell Prime Dots (C’-dots), which is a class of core-shell fluorescent nanoparticles developed in the Wiesner Lab.
Second year Master’s Student, Brenda S. Javier-Boodhan from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and part of the Estroff Group was offered and accepted into the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Program at Cornell University beginning in Fall 2024. Congratulations Brenda!
Undergraduate researcher Asher Lal was recently accepted into Cornell’s Master of Engineering program in Biomedical Engineering. This 1-year program focuses on engineering design and practice. Congratulations Asher!
Third-year PhD student Quinton Wright received NIH T32 Fellowship, which provides students with funding and opportunities to explore clinical translational research. Quinton will study factors associated with implant shift in cementless total knee arthroplasty. He will spend the Spring 2024 semester at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City collaborating with Dr. Emily Stein.
Undergraduate researchers Asher Lal and Zaina Mosalam were awarded an Engineering Learning Initiatives Award for their proposal titled “Peripheral Cortical Bone Density Predicts Vertebral Bone Mineral Properties in Spine Fusion Surgery Patients.” Congrats Zaina and Asher!
Undergraduate researcher Asher Lal
Undergraduate researcher Zaina Mosalam
Kobby Adu accepted a summer position as a Retinal Disease Intern at Merck. His group will be researching age-related macular degeneration and testing drug candidates for that condition. When asked about the upcoming experience Kobby said “I’m super excited to be working at Merck. Thanks to the cool imaging work I do in the Donnelly Lab, I’ve gotten a new opportunity to expand on the skills I’ve built and do more fluorescence-based research!”
Tomisin Sodeinde, 2nd year MS student received the GEM Employer Fellowship which provides student with funding and opportunities to do STEM research at universities. The fellowship also provides a summer internship experience at the Idaho National Laboratory to conduct research on green hydrogen technology and high-temperature electrolysis.
The Office of Undergraduate Biology named Beth Straight as Undergraduate Researcher of the Week: https://www.smore.com/cpejb
Beth’s work on the stem-cell-lineage basis for the material properties of bone was recently featured in a Cornell MSE student spotlight: https://www.mse.cornell.edu/spotlights/student-finds-passion-researching-disease-through-mse
Congratulations Beth!
Undergraduate researcher Kobby Adu was awarded an Engineering Learning Initiatives Research Award for his proposal, “Identifying the effects of sterilization methods on the properties of bone graft extracellular matrix”. Congratulations Kobby!
First year PhD student Quinton wright received honorable mention as a 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Congratulations Quinton! More information about the awards and recipients can be found on the NSF student spotlights: https://www.mse.cornell.edu/spotlights/mse-students-win-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships
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