April 5-8, 2017. Dan gave a podium presentation at BMES annual meeting! Brittany and Pouria present their work as poster presentations at the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
October 5-8, 2016. Pouria presented his work as an oral presentation; Dan and Brittany presented poster presentations at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
July 1, 2016. Dr. Justin Brown receives tenure.
May 17-22, 2016. Dan gave an oral presentation; Pouria and Brittany presented their work as poster presentations at the 10th World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal, Canada.
May, 10, 2016. Dr. Brown is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2016.
May 10, 2016. Article published: Banik, B., Riley, T., Platt, C., and J. Brown. “Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Morphology and Migration on Microtextured Titanium.” Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 4(41). (2016). DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2016.00041.
May 6, 2016. Undergraduate students, Mary Elizabeth McCulloch, Matthew Swatski, and Rebecca Nagurnery graduate and fulfill a research honors thesis in Dr. Brown’s lab.
May, 5, 2016. Congratulations to Pouria & Brittany, who won the second place on Material Visualizations Competition ”MVC8”, Penn State.
April 27, 2016. Brittany Banik is awarded Graduate Student Service Award
- Bioengineering graduate student Brittany Banik was awarded the 2016 Graduate Student Service Award. Established in 1991, the award recognizes a graduate student who has best combined high academic achievement with leadership in University or other public activities.
April, 5, 2016. Dan Bowers wins second place in morning paper/oral presentations and Pouria Fattahi and Brittany Banik win third place in Art-In-Science at the 2016 College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS)
- CERS is an annual student-initiated, student-run symposium featuring research papers, oral and poster presentations and an ‘Art in Science’ competition from the engineering disciplines. Read more…
March 4, 2016. Brittany Banik receives the Leighton Riess Graduate Fellowship in Engineering, which recognizes top M.S. and Ph.D. students in biological- or biomedical-related areas of inquiry
February 25, 2016. Dan Bowers and Brittany Banik participate in Exploration-U, a family science night, at Bald Eagle High School
February 24, 2016. Cover art is published: Banik, B., P. Fattahi, and J. Brown. “Polymeric Nanoparticles: The Future of Nanomedicine.” WIRES Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 8(2):Inside cover image. (2016). DOI: 10.1002/wnan.1399.
January 30, 2016. Graduate students, Brittany Banik and Pouria Fattahi, showcase bioengineering during STEM career day event
January 25, 2016. Article published: Banik, B., Lewis, G., and J. Brown. “Multiscale Poly-(ϵ-caprolactone) Scaffold Mimicking Nonlinearity in Tendon Tissue Mechanics.” Journal of Regenerative Engineering and Translational Medicine. 1(1):1-9. (2016). DOI: 10.1007/s40883-016-0008-5.
October 7-10, 2015. Rachel Wolfe, Brittany Banik, Dan Bowers, and Pouria Fattahi present posters at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL.
September 8, 2015. Dan Bowers passes his Comprehensive Exam
August 25-29, 2015. Dr. Justin Brown and Brittany Banik present oral presentations at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conference in Milan, Italy.
August 28, 2015. Article published: Banik, B., Fattahi, P., and J. Brown. “Polymeric Nanoparticles: The Future of Nanomedicine,” WIREs Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology. (2015). DOI: 10.1002/wnan.1364.
April 15-17, 2015. Brittany Banik presents an oral presentation at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting & Exposition in Charlotte, NC.
February 2015. Article published: Higgins, A., Banik, B., and J. Brown. “Geometry sensing through POR1 regulates Rac1 activity controlling early osteoblast differentiation in response to nanofiber diameter.” Integrative Biology. 7(2):229-36. (2014). DOI: 10.1039/c4ib00225c.
October 22-26, 2014. Rebecca Nagurney, Jordan Dover, Andrew Higgins, and Brittany Banik present posters at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX.
August 6, 2014. Brittany Banik passes her Comprehensive Exam
September 25-28, 2014. Brittany Banik presents a poster presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA.
August 1, 2013. Article published: Higgins, A., Banik, B., and J. Brown. “Nanotopography Sensing Through Intracellular Signaling and Mechanotransduction with an Emphasis on Bone.” Journal of Biomimetics Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. 3(4):396-408 (2013). DOI: 10.1166/jbt.2013.1104.
August 2013. Brittany Banik receives the National Science Foundation Fellowship
March 24, 2013. Brittany Banik wins first place in Overall Engineering Poster at the Graduate Exhibition, The Pennsylvania State University.