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Spring/Summer 2016

T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F I O W A D E PA R T M E N T O F B I O M E D I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G

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Molly Berringer, Amanda Smith, and Claire Castaneda prepare for Design Day in the Senior Design lab. Photo by Justin Torner, UI Communications.

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Greetings....................... from the Chair

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BME Industry Day.....

Student Profile............ Bailey Banach, BSE BME 2016

Senior Design Day.... Student........................... Achievements

Faculty/Alumni.......... News

Faculty............................ Roster

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BME graduate students at Research Open House. Front row left to right: Jessica Forbes, Andrea Hallier, Emily Hammond, Sarah Gerard, Anna Schumacher. Back row left to right: David Ellis, Ben Berkowitz, David Heckelsmiller, Srivats Sarathy, Brendan Hodis, John Kalantari, Andrew Metzger, Samantha Dilger, Johanna Uthoff, Nasibeh Hassanlou, Ethan Ulrich, Ryan Adam, Jacob Herrmann. Photo by Courtney Bork

Professor Raghavan explains equipment in the Carver Biomechanics and Mechanobiology Lab. Photo by Courtney Bork

Andrew Metzger explains his research at Research Open House. Photo by Courtney Bork

Special thanks to Samantha McLaughlin for writing articles in this issue.

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Message from the Chair

Dear Alumni and Friends of BME,

It’s been an exciting and busy academic year in our Department! In the fall semes-ter, we had two new faculty members join the Department. Dr. David Kristensen, a new assistant professor, works in the area of bioinformatics and joined as a member of the campus-wide genetics cluster. Dr. Osama Saba was hired as a new lecturer in biomedical engineering. Dr. Saba will teach courses in the areas of bio-

medical imaging, signal processing, and electronics. We have profi les of both new faculty members in this newsletter.

Biomedical engineering continues to grow as an undergraduate major. The fall semester brought us a freshman class of 215 new BME students. At the May graduation ceremony, we graduated 67 newly-minted BS-level biomedical engineers, 9 students with the MS degree, and 6 students with the PhD degree.

We were thrilled to be able to recognize the accomplishments of two special BME alumni this spring. In February, the College awarded the “Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service” to Andy Leopold (BSE BME 1984). Andy is an experienced medical device engineer and entrepreneur who has served on our Department advisory council for many years. Andy has also worked closely with sever-al of our senior design groups. While visiting campus to receive his award, Andy met with junior and senior year students to discuss his career and share his perspective on the medical device industry.

In May, the College awarded the “Dean’s Award for Early Career Achievement” to Michelle Hall (BME BME 2001). Michelle is a certifi ed prosthetist-orthotist and a fellow of and past president of the Amer-ican Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists. She currently practices at Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare. While on campus, Michelle gave a seminar to our fi rst-year students entitled “Finding Your Way to a Career in Orthotics & Prosthetics.”

We would love to hear news about you and your career and activities -- we’ll try to include your news in future newsletters. Please send your news and other information to [email protected].

We invite you to visit Iowa City and see how our Department and the surrounding College and Uni-versity has grown. Does your company hire biomedical engineers? If you can visit during the aca-demic year, we can try to schedule you as a speaker at one of our weekly seminars. We can also set up an information session if you would like to meet informally with our students and do some recruit-ing for your company. Please contact us if this is something you would be interested in.

This summer marks the end of my term as department chair. It has my great honor and pleasure to lead the Department over the past several years. I’m very pleased and excited to report that Profes-sor Nicole Grosland will take over leadership of the Department effective July 1, 2016.

We wish you a relaxing and fun-fi lled summer and hope to see you back on campus sometime soon!

Joseph M. ReinhardtProfessor and ChairDepartment of Biomedical [email protected]

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Dr. Osama Saba has joined BME as a lecturer. Iowa is not a new home for Dr. Saba. He originally came to The University of Iowa as a Fulbright Scholar and BME graduate student. After working for ten years in the industry spanning across three countries, he was ready to fi nally settle down. Iowa had already felt like a second home to Dr. Saba so it was an easy choice to make it his permanent home.

Dr. Saba’s main focus this semester is teaching. He says that the most rewarding part of teaching is the “ability to teach and learn.” He enjoys helping students along their path to becoming Biomedical Engineers and at the same time learning and being challenged from them on how to become a better educator. He plans on picking up on his research this summer through exploring new applications of imaging in order to study joint movement. Sometime in the future he would like to explore model-ing contrast material fl ow in the blood stream for imaging applications. Dr. Saba is looking forward to his many years in education. He believes it is now his turn to educate and prepare the next generation of Biomedical Engineers. He hopes to help them achieve successful careers. Addition-ally, Dr. Saba wants to explore and research new topic areas that are important to understanding and hopefully improving human health. To this he claims: “No better place to do this than UI!”

Dr. David Kristensen has been appointed As-sistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He is affi liated with the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, the Genetics Cluster Hire Initiative, and the Informatics Initiative. As a Midwest na-tive, Dr. Kristensen jumped at the opportunity to come to the University of Iowa. He was drawn to the University for many reasons, however the big selling point was the fact that there was a medical school. This tied directly in with his research goals of studying the human microbiome in hopes it will lead to curing diseases. Dr. Kristensen wants to be a part of revolutionizing what is known about our microbiome and how it relates to causing diseases. He plans to accomplish these goals by developing new computational tools. Dr. Kristensen added that “there are doc-tors and researchers across the river ready and eager to make use of those tools in real clinical settings. There are also bright students who are eager to learn, and I look forward to guiding them towards a better understanding of science, because I think that more than anything is the greatest positive impact that I can make in this world. At the end of the day, a tool is just a tool no matter how many people it helps, but people are the real treasures.”

Dr. Kristensen is looking forward to putting down roots in Iowa. Having completed his B.S. in Biology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and moving on to Baylor College of Medicine to earn his Ph.D. in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, having one city to call home will be long awaited treat. He appreciates how friendly and helpful everyone has been since he moved here. We look forward to the con-tributions Dr. Kristensen is going to make not only to the University of Iowa but to the global community as well.

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BME Industry Day ConferenceBME Industry Day ConferenceOn February 22nd and 23rd, BME students and industry leaders alike had a special opportunity here at the University of Iowa. Our inaugural Biomedical Engineering@ Iowa Industry Conference hosted eleven compa-nies from across the nation to demonstrate what our BME program is all about. Companies had the chance to learn about the program, tour the engineering campus, visit labs, and most importantly, meet with students. This unique event was tailored for students to have an exclusive chance to meet with companies specifi cally looking for BME graduates. Students were able to learn about the wide variety of positions that await them once they complete their studies.

This two day event was packed with activities. On the fi rst day companies heard from the College of Engineer-ing Dean, Dr. Alec Scranton, followed by presentations from Department chair Dr. Joe Reinhardt and Director of Professional Development Kelli Delfosse. Then the companies and students joined together for a meet and greet networking event. This allowed for students and companies to interact in an informal setting. Compa-nies shared information about matters such as their current initiatives, the types of skills they’re looking for in

employees, and any available opportunities. Later that evening faculty members and companies met for casual networking session over dinner. The day concluded with employer information sessions for students to learn about indiviual companies.

The second day held a host of events as well. The morning kicked off with a breakfast and research poster session. This showcased senior design projects and other graduate and upper undergraduate research. The session also informed companies on how they can become involved with Senior Design. After this, the student lab research tours began, allowing for companies to choose which facility they wanted to see; informatics and devices labs were included. The event concluded with industry lunch and learn panels, giving students an in depth look at whichever companies they were interested in.

This fi rst Biomedical Engineering@ Iowa Industry Conference was certainly a success. We will continue to host this event and look forward to making the changes suggested by this year’s participants. We hope that it will serve as a model for other departments to host similar events. If you wish to participate in next year’s event please contact us!

Photos by Courtney Bork

All articles pages 3-6 written by Samantha McLaughlin

Bailey Banach is this edition’s undergraduate standout student! She makes incredible contributions not only to the program but to the entire commu-nity as well. Bailey knew she wanted to be a biomedical engineer from the time she was in high school. She had met a little girl who had to have her eye enucleated in order to stop her cancer from spreading. This procedure left the little girl with an empty socket where her eye used to be. After several failed attempts at using an artificial eye, a team of biomedical engineers, plastic surgeons, and ophthalmologists were able to create a custom eye that looked and functioned as if it were real. When reflecting on this experience Bailey said, “Seeing the joy on this little girl's face when she saw herself in the mirror for the first time wearing her new eye was the closest thing to a miracle I've ever seen and it was her smile that inspired me to pursue a degree in engineering. My goal is to see that smile on as many faces as possible.” The research she has been involved with closely relates to this experience.

Bailey began working with the Tucker Stem Cell Lab in the Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research her sophomore year. Here, they are focused on finding a cure for Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). AMD is the leading cause for blindness in the Western world. While the lab treats all stages of AMD, Banach’s research was related to treating more advanced stages of dry AMD. She used a 3D printer to create a scaffolding for cells that would mimic the extra cellular matrix of the choroidal tissue in the eye. This matrix then seeds with endothelial cells that would eventual-

ly assemble to behave like healthy choroid tissue, be implanted into patients, replace the dead tissue, and restore function in the eye. It is from her experiences with this lab that she has decided to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering once she completes her undergraduate degree.

Additionally, Bailey has completed other very interesting projects during her studies. One project was in the Design for Manufacturing class, ENGR:2760. She was put into a team in order to build a remote control car and then race it against the other students. While this course was challenging, she found it satisfying because she was able to combine her engineering knowledge with design concepts that were ultimately created. The remote control car featured many successful design components, but the one that really stuck out was painting the car red because Banach asserted that “everyone knows red cars go faster than any other color car, right?” Her theory must be correct because the team’s car was the fasted through the three obstacles and set new course records. However, the biggest victory was for Banach was feeling like a true engineer.

Another fascinating project was one she created through the course Fabrication and Design: Hand Built Bicycle Program which is offered through the Art Department. As the course title hints, students design every aspect of the bike and then they build it. Bailey made a bike she could use to ride around town and commute to and from activities. She designed the bike to her personal dimensions; when she takes her feet off the pedals she can stand with the bike balanced between her legs. She also used her dimensions to make sure she could carry the bike on her shoulders. With weight and speed in mind, she chose steel to construct the bike. Although it was not the lightest material, it was not the most expensive either. Bailey cut, mitered and welded the bike together, earning the title “Most Improved Welder.” She did add a personal touch to the bike by cutting a bumble bee and honey comb into the plate. This course allowed Bailey to grow as an engineer by being hands on for every step of the process from conceptualization to final as-sembly of the functional bicycle. Not to mention she now has a working bike.

When Bailey is not doing engineering related tasks, you can find her at the field house. As the Vice Pres-ident and Captain of the Iowa Women’s Club Volleyball team, she keeps herself busy. Coming into her executive position Bailey faced a grim situation, either she got her team’s bank account back into the black or they were going to be suspended. Not only was she able to save the team from suspension but she was able to create a $3,000 surplus. The team had a very successful season and became ranked after beating Iowa State at their own home tournament! Bailey was able to contribute to this victory due to her impres-sive thirty inch vertical jump.

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STUDENT PROFILEBailey BanachBSE BME 2016

Photo courtesy: Bailey Banach



Senior Design Day

Showing her true Hawkeye pride, Bailey joined Dance Marathon this year. Dancers are required to raise $500 to participate in the 24 hour Big Event. This amount seemed very difficult to achieve but Banach was de-termined to do it, as this was her last opportunity. She well surpassed that goal and raised over $1,300 for the kids. Even though standing on her feet for 24 hours was harder than she imagined, she fought through it. Thinking about the kids fighting cancer across the river was more than enough motivation. This group of students, families, residents, and business partners created a community of support, strength, and love for the kids. Bailey contributed her time and heart to this amazing student organization.

Reflecting on her time as a student here, Bailey was able to offer some advice to future Biomedical Engineer-ing students. She said “Don’t convince yourself you can’t do something and don’t convince yourself to pursue something that you’re not actually interested in. Expose yourself to things you’ve never done before…espe-cially if it scare you because you might fail. Also, get to know your instructors. They’re not cruel, uncaring robots meant to destroy your self-esteem. They’re caring, kind people meant to challenge you to do things you never thought you could accomplish. Finally, brush and floss every day.” Banach has been an incredible student and we are excited to see the opportunities the future will hold for her.

Undergraduate teams presented their final designs to Advisory Board on May 6th, 2016.

Photos by Courtney Bork

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Emily Hammond (PHD 2020) received the Ballard Sea-shore Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation titled, “Longitudinal characterization of porcine cancer models.”

Sajan Lingala (PHD 2013) Received the Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize for his dissertation titled, “Novel Adaptive Reconstruction Schemes for Accelerated Myocaridal Perfu-sion MRI.”

Eric Pahl (BSE BME 2020) Received the Storer Start-Up Award.

Kasra Zarei (BSE BME 2016, MS 2017) Won UI Student Employee of the Year.

Molly Berringer (BSE BME 2016), Andrea Caceres (BSE BME 2016), Clair Castaneda (BSE BME 2016), & Amanda Smith (BSE BME 2016) received 2nd place at the Design of Medical Device International Student Showcase.

Ryan Adam (PHD 2019), Anna Schumacher (PHD 2020), & Chaid Schwarz (PHD 2016) were named Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Graduate Students.

Stephen LuCore (PHD 2018) received the CBCB Best Graduate Research and Best Molecular Design at Re-search Open House.

Mariam El-Hattab (MS 2018) Received the Hubbard Award.

Aribet De Jesus (PHD 2016) received the Academic Achievement Award from the Ethnic Inclusion Offi ce.

Srivats Sarathy (MS 2017) won Best BME Poster at Re-search Open House.

Mallory Tollefson (BSE BME 2016, MS 2017) won the CBCB Undergraduate Best Poster Award at Research Open House.

Anna Schumacher (PHD 2016) won Best CCAD Poster at Research Open House.

Ryan Adam (PHD 2019) received 3rd place People’s Choice Award at Research Open House.

Rae Corrigan (BSE BME 2018) was named Goldwater Scholar. She was one of three students at the University of Iowa to receive this honor.

Kasra Zarei (BSE BME 2016, MS 2017) received the Stu-dent Innovator Award.

Alyssa Mendenhall (BSE BME 2018) was chosen for the summer EBICS (Emergent Behaviors of the Integrated Cel-lular Systems) summer program.

Student Achievements Jill Hauer (BSE BME 2016) and Hernan Bernabe (BSE BME 2016) mentored two West Liberty High School student teams in computational biochemistry – one studied renal disease, the other studies diabetes. The teams placed second and third at the State Science & Technology Fair.

Sailahari Ponnaluri (BSE BME 2016) received the Outstand-ing Student Leader Award at the Engineering Professional Development Annual Awards Banquet. She also received the Outstanding Senior Award at the College of Engineering com-mencement ceremony.

Amanda Smith (BSE BME 2016) received the Outstanding Student Employee Award at the Engineering Professional De-velopment Annual Awards Banquet. Amanda also delivered the student commencement address.

Ally Swartz (BSE BME 2016) received the Outstanding Intern/Co-op Award at the Engineering Professional Develop-ment Annual Awards Banquet. Ally interned at CIVCO Medi-cal Solutions.

Krishna Iyer (PHD BME 2016, MD 2016) received the Award for Outstanding Medical Student Contribution to Radiology Research.

Bailey Banach (BSE BME 2016) was named a 2016-2020 Graduate Fellow at Kansas University where she will major in bioengineering in the fall.

Dogan’s experience at ASHGMeeshanthini Dogan (BSE ME 2011, MS BME 2012, PHD BME 2017) submitted an abstract for the fall 2015 American Society of Human Genetics. Little did she know she would be selected for a platform talk. The ASHG issued a press release the morning she gave her talk and afterward, Meesha met with the media to answer questions. Her research was also featured in the Press Citizen, the Gazette, and KCRG TV9 news channel. Here, she describes the research of Dr. Robert Philibert’s laboratory:

The “greying” of the American population is posing steadily increasing challenges to our economic and healthcare infrastruc-tures. Unfortunately, the best methods through which to respond to these challenges and better adjust social and economic policies are not known. Part of this confusion is secondary to our immature understanding of human aging. In order to address these challenges and better understand the relationship between lifestyle choices and healthy aging, more exact measures of the “weathering” of the genome are needed. Although this task can be addressed in several different manners, several recent studies have shown that DNA methylation (DNAm), a measure of local gene activity, changes with age and can be used to develop ex-act biological age predictors known as “epigenetic clock”. How-ever, whether these clocks could be used to discern the adverse or weathering effects of unhealthy lifestyle choices was unknown.



Photo Courtesy: Meesha Dogan

“Best thing I learned at the University of Iowa. Engineering 101: ‘Scientists find problems, engineers solve them!’” --Ashton Kutcher, January 27th, 2016

This is particularly true for substance use. Although there are many causes of premature aging, tobacco and alcohol use are the 1st and 3rd, respectively, leading causes of prevent-able morbidity and mortality in the United States. Yet, particularly for alcohol consumption, the threshold of safe amounts of consumption of these substances is not well understood. Sadly, a substantial barrier to better understanding the effects of smoking and drinking on aging is unreliable self-report measures. Therefore, instead of using self-reported data, we used recently discovered objective epigenetic biomarkers of alcohol and cigarette con-sumption together with an epigenetic clock, developed by Greg Hannum and colleagues to determine the effects of the use of these two substances on molecular aging. In brief, from the technical viewpoint, DNAm age was fi tted against chronological age and the residual of the model was used to represent age acceleration (deviation of DNAm age from chronolog-ical age). Age acceleration was then regressed against smoking and drinking biomarkers to understand the effects of consumption on age acceleration.

Consistent with statements from the Centers for Disease Control, all levels of smoke ex-posure were associated with age acceleration. However, mixed effects were observed for al-cohol consumption. In contrast, moderate use (approximately 1 to 2 drinks per day) showed deceleration of molecular aging- a fi nding supported by prior epidemiological studies. Impor-tantly and in direct contrast to moderate use, high levels of alcohol use were associated with markedly accelerated cellular aging. Finally, our studies identifi ed a number of key loci through which the protective effects of moderate alcohol use- or the lifestyle associated with moderate alcohol use- are moderated.Taken as a whole, our study illustrates an important new method through which the effects of alcohol and other forms of sub-stance use on healthy aging can be explored. In addition, they also identify distinct pathways that could be targeted in future pharmaceutical or behavioral efforts to promote the well-being of older Americans.

chanical environment and to establish continuing research collaborations with these two institutions.

Alumni NewsAndrew Leopold (BSE BME 1984) received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service.

Michelle Sabick (MS 1994, PHD 1997) was named Dean of Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. Sabick’s research advisors at Iowa were Dr. Vijay Goel, BME and Dr. Jim Hay, Exercise

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Michelle Hall (BSE BME 2001) was named one of O&P News’ 175 Innovators in Orthotics and Prosthetics. She also received the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Early Career Achievement and presented a special seminar on May 5th, 2016.Photo by David Wilder

Faculty NewsJames Ankrum received the 2015 Inventor Award from the University of Iowa Research Foundation Venture & Licens-ing.

Suresh Raghavan was inducted as a Fellow in the Amer-ican Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. He was a panel member on the May 8th, 2016 episode of Ethical Perspectives on the News televised on KCRG TV9.

Karim Abdel-Malek participated in the “Research to Real Life” panel on the WorldCanvass Program.

Nicole Grosland and Sarah Vigmostad received a grant from the Carver Foundation to create the Carver Medical Device Lab. An open house is scheduled for fall.

Edward Sander received a Partnership Fund grant from King’s College London. Dr. Sander spent a week visiting King’s College and the University of Southampton, where he gave seminars and met with students and faculty. The purpose of the trip was to teach a new experimental tech-nique for characterizing how cells respond to their me-

Biomaterials, Mechanobiology, and Tissue EngineeringJames Ankrum, Assistant ProfessorEngineered cell-based therapies for diabetes and its complications, nanotechnology, medical devices

Edward A. Sander, Assistant ProfessorWound healing; multiscale biomechanics of native and engineered tissue; mechanobiology of growth and re-modeling processes; vascular biomechanics

Cardiovascular BiomechanicsSeth Dillard, LecturerCardiovascular fl uid mechanics; computational and experimental fl uid dynamics; image-based modeling

M.L. Suresh Raghavan, Professor and Robert and Virginia Wheeler Faculty FellowMechanics of biological soft tissues; biomechanics of aneurysms and endovascular grafts; heart valve pros-thesis; embolization materials

Sarah C. Vigmostad, Associate ProfessorCoronary blood fl ow dynamics; heart valve mechan-ics; cardiovascular implant design and analysis; RBC dynamics for analysis of blood damage; vocal cord dynamics

Cellular EngineeringJose G. Assouline, Adjunct Associate ProfessorTissue engineering; nanotechnology

Michael A. Mackey, Associate ProfessorLive cell imaging; modeling biochemical reaction path-ways in living cells

Computational GenomicsTerry A. Braun, Associate Professor and Director, Coor-dinated Laboratory for Computational GenomicsGenetics; bioinformatics and computational genetics; macular degeneration

Thomas L. Casavant, Professor, Roy J. Carver Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Bioinformatics; computational biology; genome se-quence analysis; software tools for human disease mutation identifi cation

David Kristensen, Assistant ProfessorDevelopment of bioinformatics algorithmsto study the human microbiome.Comparative genomics and other large-scale studies of biological systems.

Todd E. Scheetz, Associate ProfessorRegulation of gene expression and processing; dis-ease gene identifi cation; molecular genetics of dis-ease; computational genomics; computational pheno-typing; distributed computing and parallel processing

Michael Schnieders, Assistant ProfessorComputational modeling of protein structure & func-tion; simulation of missense mutations; prediction of the thermodynamics of organic biomaterials

Human Simulation & Computational BiomechanicsKarim Abdel-Malek, Professor and Director, Center for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD)Human simulation: human systems integration; injury prediction; human modeling; virtual reality; personal protective equipment simulation; sports simulation

Imaging and Biological SystemsEdwin L. Dove, Associate ProfessorMedical image processing; mathematical modeling of physiological processes

Joseph M. Reinhardt, Professor and Department Executive Offi cerPulmonary imaging; medical image analysis

Osama Saba, LecturerMedical imaging and biological systems modeling.

Musculoskeletal BiomechanicsNicole M. Grosland, Professor Spinal biomechanics; total joint arthroplasty; patient/subject-specifi c model development; fi nite element meshing techniques

Nicole Kallemeyn, LecturerOrthopaedic biomechanics; fi nite element modeling; patient-specifi c modeling

Tae-Hong Lim, ProfessorSpine biomechanics; effect of mechanical loads on the cellular activities in the intervertebral discs; discogenic low back pain; mathematical modeling of spinal mus-cles

David G. Wilder, ProfessorWhole body vibration; spine biomechanics; injury pre-vention; ergonomics; international standards develop-ment

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Faculty Roster


Undergraduate

Baldwin, Justine OliviaBanach, Bailey BeaBankert, Mariah ABeranek, Carl McCarrenBernabe, Hernan ValerianoBerringer, Molly AnneChaloupka, Julia TChen, HaotianChristner, Danika ECisna, Austin ECleven, Edward JCoe, Sarah ChristineCollins, Nicholas ACrompton, JohnDahlstrom, Elijah BlueDaniel, George KDeLau, Austin DeanDoctor, Shruti PranavaDonovan, David FDratnol, Anthony REdwards, Jena JoanEilers, Benjamin CElsheikh, AlzuebeirEstelle, Stephen LawrenceFelderman, NicoleFischer, JordanGrigsby, Lauren MHajdarevic, BakirHauer, Jill JohannaHawk, Laura LHendrickson, Brandon KyleHewitt, Jordan JamesHirsch, Madeline BJacobs, Benjamin NathanielJones, Natalie LouiseJung, BohunKnake, Mollie MLala, JanelleLeonard, Tory NicoleLynn, Ava MarieMampe, Jessica R

McClurg, Bailey CatherineMidlash, KevinMiller, Alexis NMills, Ashley MNielsen, Nicholas RonaldNitschke, Nicole DeborahOlson, Riley EmmalynPannek, Amy PatriciaParks, Jacob MPaschke, John DPawula, Anthony GenePonnaluri, Sailahari VenkatasriPospisil, TylerPuglisi, Paul DavidPuliadi, Ramya MRehan, Brenna LynnRocha, Diego NSenn, AmandaSharp, AshleySmall, Kyle ASmith, Amanda LynnSwartz, Allyson RochelleVedder, Kaylyn MarieWalker, Daniel RWiest, Dylan

Graduate

Andrew Amendola, MSArmin Avdic, MSAribet De Jesus, PHDSamantha Dilger, PHDShayma Elsheikh, MSJessica Forbes, MSMoustafa Ibrahim, MSKrishna Iyer, PHD/MDAbhilash Kizhakke Puliyakote, PHDBenjamin Krog, MSSteven Long, MSAndrew Metzger, MSChaid Schwarz, PHDLiza Shrestha, PHDLeah Taylor, MS


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