Allison Thackery

Allison Thackery

Allison is a first year student at WCU studying nursing.  Her research project is to investigate different types of stents used to keep a lumen open.  The most common application for stents in in blood vessels, in particular within the heart (cardia stents).
John Davis

John Davis

John is a senior in Electrical Engineering this coming Fall and he is also a philosophy major. He is using mathematical modeling to develop a framework to better understand how mesenchymal stem cells move through artificial tissue. The goal of this research is to use...
Chloe Davis

Chloe Davis

Chloe is a second year student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, mechanical concentration and a degree in computer science.  She is tracking the movement of mesenchymal stem cells to develop a better understanding of their migration characteristics. Stem...
Clayton Bardall

Clayton Bardall

Clayton graduated from the MSET program and was also a football player at WCU.  His project is to use instrumented mouth guards to measure head impacts. Working with our collaborators at Pennsylvania State University he studied the effect of brain strain caused by...