Eva received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
A big congratulations to Eva Erickson who was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship!!
Welcome to Dipan and Pedro – new Postdocs
A warm welcome to two new postdocs – Dipan Deb and Pedro Ormonde. Dipan just completed his PhD at UC Irvine working with Haitam Taha, and Pedro just completed his PhD at Lehigh University, working with Keith Moored.
Noah and Mareesa present at SICB!
Congratulations to Noah Medina and Mareesa Islaam who presented a poster at the Annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Seattle. The poster presented results from their summer 2023 research project on the individual variability… Continue Reading
Lab featured in Nat Geo and Time Magazine’s best of 2023
Our lab is honored to be highlighted in National Geographic Magazine and Time Magazine’s top photos of 2023 – See our colleagues Sharon Swartz and Brooke Quinn flying a bat in our Animal Flight Wind tunnel. This photo was the… Continue Reading
Farewell to good friends and congratulations to our new grads
Congratulations and bon voyage to lab members who are (sigh) moving to bigger and better things: postdocs Xiaowei He, Joel Newbolt, and recent graduates Noah Medina, Tommy Mahoney, and Oliver Sand. Best fortunes to you… Continue Reading
New paper on swept wing aeroelasticity published in JFM
Congratulations to our former lab mate, Yuanhang Zhu, whose paper on swept wing aeroelastic instabilites, was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics!
Amazing presence at the 2023 APS/DFD!
A fantastic lab presence and Brown presence at the 2023 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS/DFD) annual meeting in Washington DC. According to Prof Tom Powers, there were 43 papers by members of the Center For Fluid Mechanics… Continue Reading
New paper in Physics Review Letters on deforming membrane disks
Check out the new paper on soft elastomeric membranes and their interactions with an oncoming flow. Our paper, led by lab alumni Varghese Mathai (now at UMass) and Asimanshu Das just appeared in Physics Review Letters
Congratulations to Yungxing Su!
Congratulations to our former lab member, Yunxing Su who is moving to Colorado to start a new position at CU Boulder. Yunxing completed his PhD in our lab, but has stayed in Providence for the past few years as a… Continue Reading
A fond farewell
As the summer winds up, we bid a fond farewell to several people: Mareesa Islam, Tanner Diring and Jayna Rybner – our wonderful “Surfing Bird” REU students. These three students spent the summer at Brown, visiting from UC Berkeley, U.… Continue Reading