As the Vice-President of the Auburn Council of Engineering Graduate Students, graduate researcher Nicole Habbit was heavily involved in planning and executing the annual Graduate Engineering Research Showcase. This is the second consecutive year that Nicole has planned this event and we are so proud of her commitment to representing our lab and department on campus!
For the second year in a row, every Lipke Lab researcher who presented at the Auburn Graduate Engineering Research Showcase won an award! Iman Hassani won 3rd place overall, Morgan Ellis and Ferdous Finklea each won honorable mentions, and Mohammad Hashemi won best in chemical engineering. Over 120 graduate engineering students presented at the showcase and our lab members won 4 out of 9 awards they were eligible for! It is safe to say that we are very, very proud of their hard work and presentation skills.
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Yuan Tian for passing his final dissertation defense! We are so proud of your hard work and can’t wait to cheer you on in the next steps of your career.
Congratulations to Lipke Lab graduate researcher, Nicole Habbit, for winning 2nd place overall in the graduate student category at the 21st annual O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Retreat! Her presentation was titled “Prostate Cancer-on-a-chip Platform for in vitro Anti-cancer Therapeutic Evaluation”.
Our Lipke Lab cancer research team (along with our mascot, Archie the Lab lab) traveled to Birmingham to attend the UAB O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Retreat! Mohammad, Benny, Iman, and Nicole (and Archie) each presented their work during the poster session competition. We had a wonderful time learning all about the cancer research efforts going on in our region and sharing our own research.
We want to give a big shout out to our very own graduate researcher, Ferdous Finklea, for her success in planning and executing the 2nd annual GRAND Engineering Showcase alongside the Auburn Engineering K-12 student services coordinator! We had a great time showing K-6 students how much fun engineering can be and how we as engineers can help solve critical problems facing our world.
Lipke Lab graduate researchers volunteered at the 2nd annual GRAND Engineering Showcase to educate K-6 students and their families about the National Academy of Engineering grand challenges! We showed attendees how we can use hydrogels and tissue engineering to engineer better medicines. We also showed students how our hearts pump using real porcine hearts! It is safe to say they had a great time and learned a bunch at the Lipke Lab station.
