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    Amber Bollinger Defends her Master’s Thesis!

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    Amber Bollinger, a Bioengineering master’s candidate, will be defending her master’s thesis (Modeling Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interfaces (RPNIs) to Examine Surface Electrode Parameters for Prosthesis Control) on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 10:30am. Please tune in via Zoom to support!!

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    Jordan McClung Defends his Master’s Thesis!

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    Jordan McClung, a Bioengineering master’s candidate, will be defending his master’s thesis (Roll Over Investigations of a Prototype Biomimetic Prosthesis-Orthosis for Persons with Partial Foot Amputations) on Thursday, November 20th, 2025 at 10:30am. Please tune in via Zoom to support!!

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    Michael O’Donnell defends his Doctoral Dissertation!

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    Michael O’Donnell, a Bioengineering PhD candidate, will be defending his dissertation (Identification of Possible Gene-Specific Promotor and Enhancer Sequences for Adeno-Associated Virus Induced Optogenetic Transduction of Somatosensory Neural Subsets) on Friday, November 21th, 2025 at 2:00pm. Please tune in via Zoom to support!!

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    Thomas DosSantos DiSorbo defends his Doctoral Dissertation!

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    Thomas Dos Santos DiSorbo, a Bioengineering PhD candidate, will be defending his dissertation (Towards a Patterned, Flexible, Abiotic Glucose Fuel Cell for Use in Medical Implants) on Friday, November 21th, 2025 at 10:30am. Please tune in via Zoom to support!!

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    Engineering That Changes Lives: CU Denver Faculty Leads Breakthrough inĀ Prosthetics

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    The CU Denver College of Engineering, Design, and Computing featured the Weir Biomechatronics Development Lab in an article. They talk about the company Dr. Weir helped found, Point Designs, which came out of a research project designed to address the need for more durable prosthetic fingers. Use the buttons below to learn more about Point…

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    Two CU Denver Graduate Students Named National Science Foundation Fellows

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    Two students at CU Denver were awarded the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one of them works in our lab, Barathwaj Murali! Use the buttons below to learn more about the award, Barathwaj Murali, and what he hopes to do with this award.