Kelley Garvin is the recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award for Engineering.
Kelley completed the requirements for the Ph.D. in
Biomedical Engineering in December 2012 and her thesis is titled Ultrasound Technologies
for the Spatial Patterning of Cells and Extracellular Matrix Proteins and the Vascularization of
Engineered Tissue.
Kelley's Ph.D. research has exciting potential to provide new, noninvasive
ultrasound-based fabrication processes that significantly advance the level of complexity
of three-dimensional engineered tissues.
Her dissertation research resulted in two filed
patent applications, numerous peer-reviewed publications, and many presentations at scientific
meetings. Kelley has already received national recognition for her work.
For two years in a row (2010, 2011), Kelley was awarded First Place in the Best Student
Paper Competition at the Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Kelley's Ph.D. research
was co-mentored by Professor Diane Dalecki
and Professor Denise C. Hocking.
Kelley was also an active student member of the Rochester
Center for Biomedical Ultrasound (RCBU).
As Wendi Heinzelman, Dean of Graduate
Studies for Arts, Sciences and Engineering wrote in her notification letter:
This award is testament to your exceptional work as a graduate student at the University of
Rochester. We are proud of all your accomplishments.
Congratulations, Kelley !