Alovely evening last night at Flatbread Pizza to celebrate so many achievements:  Congratulations to Yuanhang in receiving his PhD.  Bon Voyage to: Cameron Urban who is leaving us to attend graduate school at Cornell; to Sonja Friman who is moving to a new Post Doctoral position in Lund (Sweden) and to our four REU students – Dayna, Jared, Gabby and Caylen, who are returning to their  respective universities to continue their studies.  This has been an amazing summer – thanks to everyone!

Two lovely, and quite distinct papers were published recently,  The first –  with our former PhD student Jorn Cheney, and Jeremy Rehm, is on the way bats use the muscles in their wings to control wing camber during flight. This paper appeared a couple of weeks ago in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The paper received a special “Inside JEB” article

 

The second paper,  with our present and former lab members: Howon Lee, Nick Simone, Yuanhang Zhu, Yunxing Su, Bernardo Ribeiros, and Jen Franck – appeared this week in Physical Review Fluids, and is on the trajectory of vortices shed behind an energy harvesting hydrofoil and combines experiments, theory and our first foray into Machine Learning.  Its worth noting that Howon and Nick performed this research as undergraduates in the lab

Congratulations to both research collaborations!!

Congrats to Yuanhang who successfully defended his PhD dissertation this morning.  Yuanhang will be cleaning up a few loose ends before moving to the University of Virginia to start a Post Doc with Dan Quinn.