Professor Myers will be given the Rodriguez Family Junior Faculty Development Award at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) Class Day on May 14, 2012. This award was founded by SEAS alumni Ana Rodriguez (SEAS’86, ’88) and her brother, Marcos (SEAS’83), to support and recognize the achievements of under-represented junior faculty.
Myers Lab at WISE event
A couple weeks ago, Kyoko went to Poly Prep to participate in Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering (WISE) . The symposium was a great opportunity for girls in middle to high school interested in becoming engineers. The day included a keynote speaker, who talked about what engineers do, a breakout workshop session, and concluded with a presentation from the girls about what they learned. Kristin and Kyoko designed a workshop to teach girls about the strength of materials by running some experiments to measure the mechanical properties of different rubber specimens . The girls had a great time playing with spring gauges and calipers, and got first hand experience on how important it is to run careful experiments! Check out some pictures here.
It was a fun event and a great opportunity to not only to reach out to young aspiring lady engineers, but also to network with other ladies in engineering. We hope to be participating again next year!
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Michael and Dr. Myers present the Lab’s work at SGI 2012 in San Diego, CA!
Kyoko’s poster on tensile/swelling tests cervical tissue and Michael’s poster about permeability measurements of human cervical tissue were well-trafficked and appreciated by conference attendees. We are having a great time here making friends and advocating for the importance of biomechanics in the study of preterm birth.
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Robots as a Research Tool – Oyen Lab Cambridge
Watch our collaborator Dr. Michelle Oyen from the Engineering Department at Cambridge University use the Lego Mindstorm in a clever way to execute her biomechanics research!
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Women in Engineering Symposium!
Kyoko and Kristin will be participating in the Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn this weekend. They will be conducting a Strength of Materials workshop and demo. This workshop will explore how the basic concepts of mechanical engineering can be used as a foundation to study biomechanics and structural design.
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2012 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference – 3 Abstracts
Our lab will be presenting three abstracts at this year’s ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference under the Reproductive Solid Mechanics subtheme. Kyoko and Michael are both finalists in the PhD competition and will be presenting their work during the PhD podium sessions.
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World’s First MRI Birth
A mother in Berlin is the first woman ever to give birth inside a MRI scanner!
Doctors in Berlin designed an open MRI scanner to capture some amazing images before, during, and after childbirth. Just another example of how medical imaging is really progressing right now. The associated paper also mentions the “mechanical factors” of birth. Maybe this will inspire more engineers to study reproductive biomechanics…
Human Birth Observed in Real-time Open Magnetic Resonance Imaging [Science Direct]
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Paper Accepted to IOVS
The paper, “The Inflation Response of Normal and Glaucomatous Posterior Human Sclera” was accepted to Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science this week. This paper was co-authored by Dr. Myers and first-authored by Baptiste Coudrillier in Dr. Vicky Nguyen’s lab at Johns Hopkins.
Columbia Academic Commons and MIT DSpace
We are in the process of making all of our publications available through the Columbia University Library website – Academic Commons. Here you will find abstracts, data sets, and our peer-reviewed articles. There is no login required, thanks in-part to Columbia University Libraries! You can already find Dr. Myers’s MIT theses at MIT DSpace.
