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Meet Emma Weiss, a @Cornell @CornellEng undergraduate turning her passion for biomechanics into real‑world impact — from designing mobility devices to leading student groups and pursuing innovative medical solutions that restore movement and improve lives. engineering.cornell.edu/bme/2025/12/10…

Improvement from last semester—we won first place at the @CornellBME BMES Lab Trivia!

Happy Pi Day from the vdM Lab!

Everyone made delicious treats for our end-of-semester cookie exchange! Happy holidays from the van der Meulen Lab!

Annual pumpkin carving was a success!

Teagan and Orren wrapped up their Cornell BME Clinical Immersion Program with a poster presentation!

Congratulations to @CornellBME @ana_witkowski on successfully defending her PhD thesis! We are so proud of Dr. Witkowski!!

A very bittersweet summer in lab as we say good-bye to our postdoc Soph! So excited to see them thrive on their next adventure, grateful for all of the advice and the wealth of knowledge they have brought to the lab over the years!

The second of our new first years! Teagan Rocheville-Higgins graduated from Oregon State University, and she is excited to be part of research that has a large translational impact and to dive deeper into the field of orthopaedic biomechanics.

She is excited to investigate the role of cellular senescence and the immune system in osteoarthritis development and progression!

Introducing the first of our two new First-Year PhD Students, Orren Shachaf! She graduated from UT Austin with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, where she worked in Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez's lab on emulsion-templated scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Happy Pi Day!!!

Make sure to check out Ana's (#1313, in Cartilage) and Mia's (#1615, in Bone) posters tonight at the poster reception! We are so excited to share our work! #ORS2025

We are so excited for ORS next weekend! Check out our lab's posters on Monday night at the poster reception!!

Lab outing to the figure skating club's semester show!! So fun, so proud of T and the whole club for putting on an amazing performance!!

We now have a Bluesky! While we might still post here, more lab updates will be over there, check it out! bsky.app/profile/vdmlab…

They deserve a close up 😍

Its that time of year for Lab Pumpkin Carving!! Happy Happy halloween!

Super excited to have two of our amazing undergrads, Allen and Emma, be a part of the Cornell DEBUT team that is a finalist at the Medtronic Design Competition at BMES! Check out their presentation (SteadyStride) on Friday- 10:35am, in Room 308! #BMES2024