We had a great time on the water last Friday night. Turns out that a sunset paddled, complemented by star gazing from our kayaks on the lake, is a great way to maintain social distance but have fun together as a lab!

More paddling photos 🚣‍♂️🚣‍♂️🚣‍♂️

Congratulations to Gabriela Torres, whose research has been selected for a 2021 Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Award! These awards recognize outstanding graduate student research that directly contributes to the well-being of North Carolina residents.

Congratulations to Impact Award and Horizon Award recipients for 2021! The Graduate School recognizes graduate students and recent graduate alumni for research projects benefiting North Carolina. Honorees are from a variety of academic programs at UNC. go.unc.edu/Dx8q3

Sixteen #UNC graduate students and alumni have been selected for the UNC Graduate School’s Impact Awards and Horizon Awards. These honors recognize Tar Heels for research and discoveries that benefit our state. Meet this year's recipients unc.live/3lYb2EA

The lab celebrated our 2020 achievements and looked ahead to 2021 with an outdoor dinner around a fire pit. The joy of being together as a group overcame the cold and dampness of the evening. The lab mascot, Anabelle, was happy to be invited.

I am honored to be featured by UNC's Working on Women in Science (WOWS) initiative. You can check it out here: wows.web.unc.edu/featured-woman…

Congratulations again Gabriela!! You can click on the link below to see more of her work: gradschool.unc.edu/news/2021/impa…

Congratulations to Dr. Gabriela Torres on passing her defense! We are so proud of you!!

We celebrated Gabriela's doctoral graduation with a lab pasta party prepared by me, my husband, Brian, and my Italian mother, Rina. It was wonderful to be together (with everyone fully vaccinated) and to celebrate Gabriela's many spectacular achievements!

Please join our presentations at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium the week of September 12. A schedule of our talks is below.

Congratulations to lab member Keerthi Anand for winning second place in UNC's BeAM MakerFest for his development of acoustic levitators! Keerthi hopes to demo his devices at other outreach events to increase public interest in STEM. Great job, Keerthi!

Congratulations to Murad for his doctoral work on, "Quantitative Estimation of Mechanical Anisotropy using Acoustic Radiation Force (ARF)-Induced Peak Displacements (PD): In Silico and Experimental Demonstration" being accepted in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging!

This is the link to Murad's and my latest paper. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34995184/

Congratulations to lab member Keerthi for inspiring the next generation of ultrasound engineers (and winning‘1st Place in the Best All Around Category’ and ‘Entrepreneurial Mindset’) with his acoustic levitator displayed at the BeAM Makerfest last week!!

Congratulations to Keerthi on being award an NIH F31 fellowship! Great work!!

Congratulations to Keita Kéita Yokoyama on receiving an appointment for a NIDDK T32 fellowship! Looking forward to new opportunities to expand research on elastography in kidneys.

Congratulations to Keerthi on passing his preliminary exam! Go Keerthi!!

Congratulations to lab member Keerthi Anand for being awarded a BME Graduate Student Service Award in recognition of his, "... devot[ing] countless hours to his passion for STEM outreach." Thanks for all you do for our community, Keerthi!