{"id":372,"date":"2022-04-26T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.utsa.edu\/xwang\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:47:17","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ceid.utsa.edu\/xwang\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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2025\/11<\/p><\/td>

Congratulations to Dr. Savannah Heath for passing her Doctoral Defense on the “Underlying Mechanisms of Age-Related Loss of Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in Bone Matrix and its Effects on Bone Fragility”.<\/p>

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2024\/03<\/p><\/td>

Congratulations to Anabelle Rocha for presenting her work with Savannah Heath at the 12th Annual BMES\/AICHE Research Symposium.<\/p>

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2024\/11<\/p><\/td>

Congratulations to Winston Hyunh for presenting his senior design project at the 2024 UTSA Tech Symposium.<\/p>

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2024\/11<\/p><\/td>

Congratulations to Ashley Ridoutt for passing her Master’s defense on the “Effects of Age, Sex, and Tissue Age on the Mechanical Properties of Local Bone Tissue”.<\/p>

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2024\/9<\/p><\/td>

Congratulations to Dr. Wang for presenting his work with Hossein Akherati – “Microstructural Invariants: An Intrinsic Measure of Trabecular Bone Microstructural Abnormality” -and Congratulations to Savannah Heath for presenting her work with Ashley Ridoutt – “Age-Related Loss of Bone Quality Originates from Tissue Aging” – at the 2024 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Conference in Toronto, ON, Canada<\/p>

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2024\/6<\/p><\/td>

Congratulations to Caroline Schilling for accepting the Extremity Trauma and Amputation Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship appointment to the Research Participation Program at the U.S Department of Defense<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2024\/2<\/td>

Congratulations to Savannah Heath and Ashley Ridoutt for presenting “Effects of Local Tissue-Aging on Water Compartments of Human Cortical Bone via Raman Spectroscopy” at the 2024 Orthopaedic Research Society Conference in Long Beach, California<\/p>

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2024\/1<\/td>Congrats to Dr. Xiao for his new post-doctoral position at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School.<\/td><\/tr>
2024\/1<\/td>Congratulations to Dr. Xiao for publishing “IN-silico simulation of nanoindentation on bone using a 2D cohesive finite element model”<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2023\/11<\/td>Congrats to Savannah for becoming a PhD candidate<\/td><\/tr>
2023\/8<\/td>Welcome new PhD students, Caroline Shilling and Hossein Akherati to the MBMS lab<\/td><\/tr>
2023\/3<\/td>Congrats to Savannah for her manuscript “ASSESSMENT OF GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN CONTENT IN BONE USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY” being accepted for publication in Bone<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
\u00a02022\/12<\/td>Congrats to Dr. Xiao for graduating with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/11<\/td>Congratulations to Dr. Pengwei Xiao for successfully defending his dissertation\u00a0<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/11<\/td>Welcome Ashley Ridoutt to the lab as an MS student in Mechanical Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/10<\/td>Congrats to Savannah for her oral presentation at BMES<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/10<\/td>Welcome Emily Mora and Tammy Flores to the lab as high-school student and undergraduate respectively<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/9<\/td>Congrats to Savannah for her poster presentation at ASBMR conference<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/8<\/td>Congrats to Evelyn for her fall internship at NASA<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/6<\/td>Welcome Haya Abdelaziz, Evelyn Fernandes, and Delina Yirgaalem to the lab as undergraduates<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/6<\/td>Congrats to Dr. Han for her new position as a researcher in Washington University<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/5<\/td>Congrats to Michael for his summer intership with Boeing<\/td><\/tr>
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\u00a0Congratulations to Eakeen and Pengwei for their publication on their paper Probability-Based Approach for Characterization of Microarchitecture and its Effect on Elastic Properties of Trabecular Bone\u00a0<\/p>

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\u00a0Congrats to Michael for winning People’s Choice Award\u00a0 in the UTSA Undergraduate Research Symposium<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

\u00a02022\/4<\/td>\u00a0Congrats to Pengwei for his accepted abstract to SB3C conference<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/2<\/td>Congrats to Dr. Han, Pengwei, Eakeen, and Savannah for all getting abstracts accepted to the 2022 ORS Conference<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a02022\/1<\/td>\u00a0Congratulations to Savannah for winning the UTSA Transdisciplinary Grand Challenge<\/td><\/tr>
\u00a02021\/11<\/td>\u00a0Congratulations to Dr. Han for her publication on how Removal of glycosaminoglycans affects the in situ mechanical behavior of extrafibrillar matrix in bone<\/td><\/tr>
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\u00a0Contratulations to Pengwei, Eakeen, and Savannah for their accepted abstracts to the 2021 BMES Conference<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

\u00a02021\/2<\/td>\u00a0Pengwei’s paper on Prediction of trabecular bone architectural features by deep learning models using stimulated DXA images was published in Bone Reports<\/td><\/tr>
2020\/2<\/td>\u00a0Pengwei’s paper on Prediction of Elastic Behavior of Human Trabecular Bone Using DXA Image-Based Deep Learning Model was accepted in JOM<\/td><\/tr>
2022\/9<\/td>Welcome Michael Castillo to the lab as an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student<\/td><\/tr>
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