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Bill Ghiglieri successfully defended his masters thesis entitled "Cross-Shear Based Wear Prediction of Total Disc Replacements" on Wednesday July 23rd. Bill's work represented a pioneering effort of the Computational Biomechanics group into total disk replacements for the spine. The effort developed a new method for predicting the impact of cross wear on disk degeneration. Bill will be returning to his home in Reno in mid August. We wish him the best of luck in his future career.

Rachel Fulstone successfully defended her master’s thesis entitled "Micro Liter Incubator Array for High Throughput Pathogenesis Studies" on Friday July 25th. Rachel is the second student to complete the bioengineering master’s degree program at the University of Denver and her work represents a successful collaboration between the Department of Biological Sciences and Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Rachel will continue on at the University of Denver for a few months submitting papers and patent applications based on her work.

Congratulations to Tian "Tina" Zhang on passing the defense of her Masters Thesis "Monte Carlo simulations of effective electrical conductivity in short-fiber composites".