Congratulations to our very own Bryana Harris, Luke Anderson, and Joshita Suresh who were each awarded the Auburn Undergraduate Research Fellowship! #WarEagle #AuburnEngineering
Category: Undergraduates
AU Research student symposium awards x3
Congratulations to lab members Morgan Ellis, Ferdous Finklea, and Jennifer Kaczmarek! Morgan won first place for her poster presentation in the Graduate Scholars Symposium. Ferdous won third place for her oral presentation in the Graduate Scholars Symposium. Jennifer won first place for her oral presentation in the Undergraduate Symposium.
Ferdous Finklea and Jennifer Kaczmarek received NSF graduate fellowship
Ferdous Finklea was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The title of her research is “Manufacturing of hiPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Drug Testing and Regenerative Medicine “.
Jennifer Kaczmarek was also awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The title of her research is “Direct Encapsulation and Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Peptide Modified Poly(ethylene) Glycol”.
http://eng.auburn.edu/news/2017/05/nsf-grfp-winners.html
Kelsey Henderson awarded AU-CMB Summer Undergraduate Fellowship
Kelsey Henderson was awarded the AU-CMB Summer Undergraduate Fellowship for the research in the area of breast cancer in the period May-July 2015. The title of her research is “Development of 3D Breast Cancer Models in PEG-Fibrinogen Hydrogels “.
Congratulations John and Ben
Congratulations to John Porter and Ben Spearman for obtaining competitive summer undergraduate research fellowships to support their summer research in our lab! John is creating nanopatterned materials for directing cardiac tissue formation and Ben is researching the role of nitric oxide in cardiogenesis.
Summer REU Student
We are happy to have summer REU student Kate DeSimone from Brown University working with us this summer!
AU Research Week 1st place awards x3
Congratulations to lab members Alexander Hodge, Petra Kerscher, and Wesley Grove! Alex won first place for his oral presentation in the Graduate Scholars Symposium. Petra won first place for her poster presentation in the Graduate Scholars Symposium. Wes won first place in the Undergraduate Research Forum STEM Oral Presentation competition. 
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/chen/about/spotlight/spotlight-on-research-week-2012.html
Bianca Awarded NSF Fellowship
Congratulations to Bianca on receiving a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship!
Article about REU Student
Yangzi (Isabel) Tian has been highlighted in a recent NYU Poly-News article about her research in the Lipke laboratory. Isabel was mentored by Dr. Lipke and graduate student Aaron Seeto during the summer of 2011.
Undergraduate National Meeting Poster Presentations
Congratulations to Wesley Grove, Bianca Williams, and Isabel Tian on their poster presentations at the national AIChE and BMES annual meetings this October.