Nicole Malofsky was recently awarded the Kappa Delta Graduate Student Volunteer Scholarship! The Kappa Delta Foundation provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students members reach their educational goals. This award recognizes Nicole's dedication to her graduate work and exceptional achievements at such an early stage in her graduate career. Congratulations, Nicole! We are so proud... Continue Reading →

Based on the inspiring work by @SammyKatta, we adapted a poster to represent our lab ethos and biomaterials focus and took the pledge. The ongoing pandemics have shown us how our role as scientists, engineers, and life-long learners goes far beyond our research in the lab. We are dedicated to upholding all of these values,... Continue Reading →

Congratulations are in order for Paula Camacho, Sareena Karim, and Nate Yuchimiuk! Paula has been inducted in the Rossin Professional Development Program! This program is designed to prepare high-achieving Lehigh engineering doctoral students for successful future academic careers. Sareena won a Stage 3 Eureka Pitch competition to fund her start-up venture Foli-Q that offers a... Continue Reading →

Diana Hammerstone has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship! Diana is currently a senior in Materials Science and Engineering and has been working in the Chow Lab since 2018. She is also a Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholar and Division I athlete on Lehigh's Cross Country and Track and Field... Continue Reading →

John Tolbert passed his qualifying exam! Congratulations, John!

We have been so busy this semester we forgot to update our website! Here are a few highlights so far... Lesley Chow is awarded the NSF CAREER Award to support research and education related to 3D-printed biomaterials: Developing Spatially Organized Biomaterials to Engineer Complex Tissue Interfaces. Read more about it here. Diana Hammerstone and Sarah... Continue Reading →

Kelly Seims passed her qualifying exam today! We are so proud of you, Kelly!  

The Chow and Pashuck labs joined together to celebrate the (almost) end of the semester and upcoming holidays. We enjoyed delicious food, funny stories, and some cheeky gift stealing during our white elephant gift exchange. Very thankful and lucky to have these  wonderful and talented people in the lab! Happy and safe holidays to all!... Continue Reading →

Sareena Karim developed a new 3D printing biomaterials activity for first-year RARE students in collaboration with Ben Metz (Bioengineering undergrad and 3D printing extraordinaire at Wilbur Powerhouse), Kelly Seims, Paula Camacho, and Lesley Chow. RARE students learned about biomaterials and teamed up to research, design, and print scaffolds for tissue engineering. Each team presented their design criteria... Continue Reading →

Hafiz (Dammy) Busari submitted his MS thesis titled, "3D Printing with Peptide-Polymer Conjugates for Single-Step Fabrication of Spatially Functionalized Scaffolds" last month and started his new job at PolyMed, Inc. as a Polymer Engineer this month. His thesis was also published as a co-first author paper with Paula Camacho in Biomaterials Science. It's been a... Continue Reading →