NSF CAREER Workshops
Here you can find recordings from NSF CAREER Q&As that I organized in 2021 and 2022 during which prior winners of the award answer audience questions. In addition, I have given talks at the ASEE NSF CAREER Workshop in 2023 about Broader Impact & Intellectual Merit as well as about Integrating and Evaluating Broader Impact. Check those videos out as well. Best of luck!
Girl Day 2023 at The University of Texas at Austin
The fantastic Gabriella P. Sugerman lead an effort by the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory to teach young women about blood and blood clot at UT Austin Girl Day. She and her lab mates made blood clot from real cow blood, which all our visitors loved. We had 250 visitors and we were happy to be told that our activity was the most fun! If you want to learn more about Girl Day read more here.
Outreach Project: Blood Clots at the Science Mill
The Science Mill in Johnson City, TX, is a family destination offering a fun, interactive learning environment for all ages. Through cutting-edge technology-based exhibits, games, and programs, the Science Mill starts students on the path to a life-long career in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In collaboration with the Science Mill the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory organized a day full of mechanics experiments to teach students about the importance of blood clot!
Episode 44: Skin Mechanics and Collaborative Friendships | Adrian Buganza Tepole and Manuel Rausch
Adrian Buganze Temple and I recenlty contributed to the Podcast “Biomechanics on our minds” (BOOM) with an episode on our NSF funded work on pressure ulcer susceptibility in the elderly. Check out the episode and let us know if you have questions. Also, check out our related work. Many thanks to the hosts Melissa Boswell and Hannah O’Day who re graduate students at Stanford University.
Open, Affordable, and Accessible Test Device
As teaching moved online at the University of Texas at Austin between Spring 2020 and Spring 2021, we developed an affordable and accessible mechanical test device that would allow students to conduct experiments at home. Specifically, we designed a uniaxial tensile testing device that works solely using gravity and your cell phone camera! We are making this device now openly available by sharing design drawings, CAD files, 3D printing files, examples data, and matlab scripts. Please also find instructional videos on our YouTube channel.
Closer Look: An Open Journal Club in Biomechanics
The Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory is partnering with colleagues at Purdue University, Boston University, and Stevens Institute of Technology to host a biweekly journal club. The club is entirely open and invites the larger biomechanics community as well as the public to join. The current schedule can be found here, while the recordings of previous meetings can be found on our YouTube channel. If you want to receive updates about the journal club, please sign up through this google sheet.
Open Data, Software, and Hardware
For 2021 the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory has one resolution: to make all new data and code openly accessible. We have started to upload the data for our most recent papers and will continue to do so for all of our work. Our main repositories are going to be the Texas Data Repository and GitHub. Please visits those repositories and use our data! Also, we will do our best to begin uploading data from publications prior to 2021, a process that will likely take a while; for which we are sorry.
Talks, Presentations, and Instructions
The Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory has tried hard to make the best of a terrible pandemic. One of the positives things that came out of this is that most scientific meetings have been held virtually and that our talks have been reported. Now, we can share our presentations and talks openly with the wider scientific community and the public. Please visit our YouTube Channel to watch talks, presentations, and cool research videos.