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* June 2015: Welcome to summer UROP students James Bezer, who joins us from the Physics Department at Imperial College, and Sajni Shah, who joins us from Mechanical Engineering also at Imperial College. | * June 2015: Niamh has been awarded a Departmental "Lecturer of the Year" Award! [[Image:NNowlan_June2015.jpg|150px|right|Teaching Award]] | ||
* June 2015: Welcome to summer UROP students James Bezer, who joins us from the Physics Department at Imperial College, and Sajni Shah, who joins us from Mechanical Engineering also at Imperial College. | |||
* June 2015: Wishing a fond farewell and best wishes for the future to Tyler Kim, who has completed his UROP project. Tyler did great work getting our research into the developmental biomechanics of the spine up and running. | |||
* April 2015: The group welcomes [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Nowlan:People#Rebecca_Rolfe.2C_Postdoctoral_Researcher Rebecca Rolfe], who joins us this month as postdoctoral researcher, working on the importance of fetal movements for spine development as part of the recently awarded Leverhulme Trust Project Grant! | |||
* April 2015: Huge congratulations to Mario- soon to be Dr Giorgi- who has passed his PhD viva! Some pictures of the celebrations below! | * April 2015: Huge congratulations to Mario- soon to be Dr Giorgi- who has passed his PhD viva! Some pictures of the celebrations below! | ||
[[Image:Marioviva1c.JPG|350px|left|Viva celebrations]] [[Image:Marioviva2c.JPG|350px|right|Viva celebrations]] | [[Image:Marioviva1c.JPG|350px|left|Viva celebrations]] [[Image:Marioviva2c.JPG|350px|right|Viva celebrations]] | ||
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* March 2015: Niamh presented a talk this month at the ORS 2015 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, USA. The talk was entitled "The Role of Mechanical Loading in the Prenatal Hip" and was part of a workshop entitled "Hip Evo Devo: Adaptation of the Hip in Phylogeny and Ontogeny", organised by Dr Sandra Shefelbine. Mario also had a poster on display at the conference entitled "The Role of Prenatal Movements in Promoting Postnatal Hip Joint Stability". | * March 2015: Niamh presented a talk this month at the ORS 2015 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, USA. The talk was entitled "The Role of Mechanical Loading in the Prenatal Hip" and was part of a workshop entitled "Hip Evo Devo: Adaptation of the Hip in Phylogeny and Ontogeny", organised by Dr Sandra Shefelbine. Mario also had a poster on display at the conference entitled "The Role of Prenatal Movements in Promoting Postnatal Hip Joint Stability". | ||
* January 2015: Funding success for the Developmental Biomechanics group! A Project Grant has been awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to Niamh and to her co-investigators Prof James Iatridis (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA) and Dr Michelle Oyen (University of Cambridge, UK). The grant will run for 3 years and will research the importance of fetal movements for the development of the spine. | * January 2015: Funding success for the Developmental Biomechanics group! A Project Grant has been awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to Niamh and to her co-investigators Prof James Iatridis (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA) and Dr Michelle Oyen (University of Cambridge, UK). The grant will run for 3 years and will research the importance of fetal movements for the development of the spine. | ||
* January 2015: A new review paper by Niamh entitled "Biomechanics of Fetal Movement" has been published in the eCM Journal and is available at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. | * January 2015: A new review paper by Niamh entitled "Biomechanics of Fetal Movement" has been published in the eCM Journal and is available at the [[Nowlan:Publications |Publications]] link. |
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