$380,978: NSF Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB)
Role of Mechanical Forces Axial Torsion and Flexure in Chick Embryos
Principal Investigator: Ashok Ramasubramanian, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Senior Personnel: Takashi Buma, associate professor of electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering and director of biomedical engineering; Kristin Fox, professor of chemistry; and Joel Lefever, visiting assistant professor of mechanical engineering
Awarded through NSF’s Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) funding mechanism, faculty and undergraduate researchers will study a combined experimental and computational approach to determine the forces driving flexion and torsion, using the chick embryo as the experimental model, with heavy emphasis on undergraduate research training.
Ashok Ramasubramanian, Dean of Engineering and Co-Director of the Templeton Institute