2024-
December-
Our research receives support from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln research council to create flexible sensors for wearable applications. The project is in collaboration with Prof. Sina Balkir.
December-
Our research receives support from the NASA Nebraska EPSCoR.
December-
Paper led by Ohnyoung Hur from on
November-
Congratulations to Adoniram Johnson for winning a presentation award at ABRCMS.
November-
Ethan Krings, Spencer Pak, and Prof. Markvicka all give presentations at the 2024 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) in Portland, Oregon.
November-
Adoniram Johnson presents at the 2024 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
October-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the Complex Biosystems seminar series.
October-
Prof. Markvicka gave a presentation at the 2024 Great Plains IDeA-CTR annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
October-
Adoniram Johnson presents at the 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
October-
Prof. Markvicka gave a presentation at the 2024 Midwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
October-
Our lab hosts an outreach event for high school students from Aurora Public Schools.
October-
Our lab hosts an outreach event for high school students from Creighton Prep.
October-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar series at Purdue University.
September-
Prof. Markvicka named among the world’s top 2% of scientists according to the
September-
Our research receives support from the National Institute of Health's National Center For Complementary & Integrative Health (R01AT013148) to create and validate a multimodal physiologically based passive monitoring system to monitor and improve whole person health. The project is in collaboration with Profs. Stephen Rennard (UNMC), Ran Dai (UNMC), Kathryn Cooper (UNO), and Jenna Yentes (Texas A&M).
August-
is published in Advanced Functional Materials and . This work is in collaboration with
August-
Prof. Markvicka has been named a Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy (PKFEA) Faculty Fellow.
August-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska Space Grant.
August-
The has received The site at UNL is led by Prof. Jeff Shield.
August-
Congratulations to Spencer Pak and Patrick McManigal for receiving a NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship to support their research projects.
August-
Congratulations to Adoniram Johnson who was selected as a top poster from the biomedical engineering REU program at the annual
July-
We have received a planning grant as part of the Grand Challenges initiative. The team is led by Prof. Sina Balkir.
July-
Prof. Markvicka has been named the Robert F. and Myrna L. Krohn Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
June-
Our research receives support from the NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3) program.
May-
Our work on an electronic nose, led by PhD student Patrick McManigal, was featured on
May-
Congratulations to Peter Lux, Grace Fredrickson, Calivn Cuddy, Faith Peterson, and Alyssa Carlson for receiving summer 2024 and/or 2024-2025 academic year .
April-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Pierson Graduate Seminar series.
April-
Prof. Markvicka has been named an American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering.
April-
Undergraduate student Wil Fiddelke was selected to present his research at the Research at the Nebraska Governors Mansion poster session.
April-
Congratulations to Patrick McManigal for winning first place at the College of Engineering pitch competition.
April-
Prof. Markvicka co-organized the (3 grad teams & 5 undergrad teams; $5,500 Purse)
March-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the Heartland Robotics Cluster seminar series.
March-
Prof. Markvicka has received the 2024 College of Engineering Edgerton Innovation Award.
March-
Prof. Markvicka has received the to establish a scalable manufacturing approach for creating solid particle-liquid metal mixtures for applications in soft robotics and stretchable electronics.
February-
Prof. Markvicka hosted an outreach event at Prairieview Preschool on additive manufacturing and plastic waste.
January-
Paper led by Ohnyoung Hur from on
2023-
December-
Our research receives support from the Voelte-Keegan Bioengineering Support program.
December-
Our research receives support from the through the . This is a collaborative research project with to study thermal interface materials.
December-
Prof. Markvicka spoke with a group of students from Lyons-Decatur Northeast Public Schools about their research projects.
November-
Congratulations to Patrick McManigal for winning the 3-2-1 quick pitch event hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship.
November-
Prof. Markvicka provided expertise and inspiration to a group of Vex Robotics teams from the Omaha area as part of a faculty panel from the College of Engineering.
October-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the 2023 Heartland Robotics and Automation Conference.
October-
Prof. Markvicka has received the 2022-2023 Research Excellence Award from the College of Engineering.
October-
Our lab hosted an outreach event at UNL for the Lincoln East High School engineering class.
October-
Paper led by Ethan Krings on This work is in collaboration with .
October-
Megan Santamore and Caden Pak presents at the 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington.
October-
Merjen Palvanova, Ethan Krings, and Prof. Markvicka all give presentations at the 2023 Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Technical Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
September-
Our lab hosted an outreach event at UNL for which is a five-year college and career prep program that builds girls’ STEM confidence and introduces them to potential STEM careers.
August-
Our lab hosted a table at the 2023 UNL-LPS STEM Connector on additive manufacturing and wearable technologies.
August-
Kyra Martindale presents at the 2023 NNCI REU Convocation in Bozeman, Montana.
August-
Congratulations to Megan Santamore who was selected as a top poster from the biomedical engineering REU program and second-place overall (out of 124 posters) at the annual
August-
Congratulations to Kyra Martindale who was selected as a top poster from the NNCI nanotechnology REU program at the annual
July-
Congratulations to Ethan Krings, Spencer Pak, and Kasey Moomau for receiving a NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship to support their research projects.
July-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska Space Grant.
July-
Our research receives support from the University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative.
June-
Prof. Markvicka presented a poster at the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference on
June-
Prof. Markvicka gave a talk at the 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference on
June-
Paper led by Dohgyu Hwang from on
May-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the 2023 Orthotic & Prosthetic Innovative Technologies Conference (OPTech).
April-
Our research receives support from a local Nebraska business with matching support from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
April-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited seminar at the University of Nebraska-Omaha in the Biomechanics Department.
April-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at 2023 National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) fellows conference.
April-
Patrick McManigal and Evan Hailey presented a poster at 2023 National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) fellows conference.
April-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited seminar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior.
April-
Prof. Markvicka gave an talk at the 2023 Nebraska Academy of Sciences (NAS) Annual Meeting.
April-
Ethan Krings presents at the ASME Design of Medical Devices Conference on a This work is in collaboration with . See our five minute pitch video .
April-
Congratulations to Calan Brant, Peter Lux, Grace Fredrickson, Brooke James, Calivn Cuddy, and Wil Fiddelke for receiving summer 2023 and/or 2023-2024 academic year .
March-
Congratulations to Kasey Moomau, an undergraduate student in the lab, on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
March-
Congratulations to Patrick McManigal and Spencer Pak for winning third place at the College of Engineering pitch competition.
March-
Prof. Markvicka co-organized the (2 grad teams & 4 undergrad teams; $5k Purse)
February-
Congratulations to incoming PhD student Kasey Moomau for receiving the Othmer Recruitment Fellowship.
February-
Congratulations to Patrick McManigal for winning the 3-in-5 pitch competition at the 2023 College of Engineering Graduate Symposium.
February-
Our research receives support from the Great Plains IDeA-CTR. Project funded in collaboration with
2022-
December-
Our research receives support from the Voelte-Keegan Bioengineering Support program.
October-
Prof. Markvicka shared an overview of the lab's current research to U.S. congressional staff members as part of the annual NU System congressional staff visit (Omaha, NE).
October-
Prof. Markvicka gaven an invited seminar at the Surgery Research Forum - hosted by Regenerative Medicine (UNMC, virtual).
October-
Prof. Markvicka and Rennard presents at the NSRI Fellows program meeting (virtual).
October-
with Yentes (Texas A&M), Rennard (UNMC), and Zhang (UNL) labs is published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
October-
Prof. Markvicka presents at the 2022 Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Technical Meeting in College Station, Texas.
October-
Sequoia Truong presents at the 2022 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
October-
Congratulations to Merjen Palvanova and John Helzer for receiving the John A Woollam Foundation Scholarship for the 2022-2023 AY.
September-
Prof. Markvicka presents at the 2022 ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference in Dearborn, Michigan.
September-
Prof. Markvicka presents at the 2022 NASA Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS, virtual).
August-
with is published in the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics.
August-
Congratulations to Sequoia Truong who was selected as the top poster from the biomedical engineering REU program at the annual
August-
Our research receives support from a local Nebraska business with matching support from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
July-
Paper led by Sean Frey from on and .
July-
Congratulations to Ethan Krings, Spencer Pak, and Kasey Moomau for receiving a NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship to support their research projects.
July-
Our research receives support from the University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative. Project funded in collaboration with Profs. Stephen Rennard (UNMC), Brian Lowes (UNMC), Ran Dai (UNMC), Kathryn Cooper (UNO), and Jenna Yentes (Texas A&M).
July-
Undergraduate student, Bridget Peterkin, was featured in the
June-
Our lab hosted the LPS middle school students.
June-
Our lab hosted a workshop at the on wearable technologies. The workshop is open source, see details .
May-
Aaron Haake receives the Outstanding MME Senior Award and was recognized as
April-
Renick Wilson successfully defends his master's thesis! He will start at Raytheon this summer.
April-
Our research receives support from the College of Engineering Healthcare Technology Fund.
April-
Our paper on a was selected as a See the five-minute pitch video .
April-
Matthew McManigal presents at the ASME Design of Medical Devices Conference on a This work is in collaboration with .
April-
Prof. Markvicka presents at the ASME Design of Medical Devices Conference on a wearable electronic nose device. This work was led by Jason Finnegan and is in collaboration with and .
April-
Matthew McManigal successfully defends his master's thesis! He will start full time at the University of Nebraska Medical Center this summer.
April-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake, an undergraduate student in the lab, on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
April-
Congratulations to Eric Vander Woude Jr, an undergraduate student in the lab, on being awarded a DoD SMART Scholarship!
April-
is published in Advanced Materials and . This work is in collaboration with
March-
Prof. Markvicka co-organized the (4 grad teams & 3 undergrad teams; $5.5k Purse)
March-
is published in Advanced Engineering Materials.
March-
Congratulations to Kasey Moomau, Merjen Palvanova, Calan Brant for receiving summer 2022 and/or 2022-2023 academic year .
March-
Congratulations to Matthew Dohmen for receiving the Darrell J. Nelson Summer Undergraduate Internship in Energy Sciences Research for the summer of 2022.
February-
Prof. Markvicka was highlighted in a recent .
February-
Our research receives support from the Great Plains IDeA-CTR. Project funded in collaboration with Profs. Stephen Rennard (UNMC), Jenna Yentes (Texas A&M), Kathryn Cooper (UNO), Ran Dai (UNMC).
January-
Bridget has been selected as a finalist for the
January-
Our lab has moved into the brand new Engineering Research Center (ERC).
2021-
December-
Jason successfully defends his master's thesis! He will start at Marble Technologies this spring.
December-
Aaron Haake presents at the Fall Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting (virtual) on additive manufacturing of functional emulsions. This work is in collaboration with .
November-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited seminar at University of New Hampshire in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
November-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited talk at the Midwest Applied Materials Symposium (MAMS).
November-
Prof. Markvicka has received the See the video
November-
is published in Small.
October-
Our research receives support from a local Nebraska business with matching support from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development.
August-
SMRL welcomes new MME graduate student Spencer Pak.
August-
Our research receives support from the . This is a collaborative research project with Prof. Stephen Rennard (UNMC) and Prof. Jenna Yentes (Texas A&M).
August-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska Space Grant.
August-
Congratulations to Ethan Krings, Eric Vander Woude Jr, and Melissa Holmes for receiving a NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship to support their research projects.
July-
Our research receives support from the . This is a collaborative research project with to study additive manufacturing of functional emulsions.
May-
SMRL welcomes Donovan Vincent as a Donovan is studying chemical engineering at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY.
May-
SMRL welcomes undergraduate student Patrick McManigal and recent ECE graduate Evan Hailey.
April-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake who was selected as the winner of the best presentation from the College of Engineering at the annual (virtual).
April-
Prof. Markvicka presents at the Nebraska Academy of Sciences (NAS) Annual Meeting (virtual).
April-
Ethan Krings presents at the Spring Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting (virtual) on lightweight liquid metal elastomer composites.
April-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake, Eric Vander Woude, and Patrick McManigal for receiving summer 2021 and/or 2021-2022 academic year .
February-
Ethan Krings presents at the annual Adhesion Society Meeting (virtual) on lightweight liquid metal elastomer composites.
February-
The has received . The NSF REU site is directed by Profs. Greg Bashford and Eric Markvicka.
2020-
December-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska EPSCoR.
November-
SMRL welcomes new graduate student Renick Wilson and undergraduate student Hee-Chan Han.
November-
Our research receives support from the Great Plains IDeA-CTR. Project funded in collaboration with Profs. Stephen Rennard (UNMC), Jenna Yentes (UNO), Kathryn Cooper (UNO), Ran Dai (UNMC), James McClay (UNMC), and Chad Vokoun (UNMC).
September-
SMRL welcomes new undergraduate students Bridget Peterkin, Bryce Yong, Chong Jun Hong Vince, and Melissa Holmes.
August-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska Space Grant.
August-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited seminar as part of UNL, UNMC, and UNO team at the Great Plains IDeA CTR Network seminar series.
August-
Congratulations to Ethan Krings and Eric Vander Woude Jr for receiving a NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship to support their research projects.
August-
Graduate student Ethan Krings was featured in the
July-
Our research receives support from the University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative. Project funded in collaboration with Profs. Stephen Rennard (UNMC), Jenna Yentes (UNO), and Kathryn Cooper (UNO).
July-
Paper led by Prof. Markvicka on wireless electronic skins for direct integration with existing robotic manipulators was accepted to IROS 2020.
June-
is published in the Advanced Healthcare Materials.
April-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska EPSCoR.
April-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake and Vince Chong for receiving 2020-2021 academic year UCARE funding.
March-
is published in the Journal of Multifunctional Materials.
March-
is published in the Proceedings of the ACM IMWUT.
January-
SMRL welcomes new graduate student Matt McManigal. Matt is co-advised with .
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October-
Prof. Markvicka gave an invited seminar at the UNL College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering seminar series.
October-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake for receiving the John A Woollam Foundation Scholarship for the 2019-2020 AY.
October-
is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
September-
is published in Advanced Functional Materials.
August-
Congratulations to Ethan Krings for receiving the NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship.
August-
Our research receives support from NASA Nebraska Space Grant.
August-
SMRL welcomes new graduate student Jason Finnegan.
July-
ElectroDermis won and
July-
Prof. Markvicka is part of UNL/UNMC team funded by Science, Engineering, and Medicine Initiative to study wearable motion tracking system. Project is led by .
June-
Our lab hosted NCIA Sovereign Native Youth STEM Leadership Academy students.
May-
is published in Advanced Functional Materials.
May-
Congratulations to incoming PhD student Jason Finnegan for receiving the Chancellor's Fellowship.
May-
was presented at ACM CHI in Glasgow, UK.
May-
Congratulations to Marco Fabietti and Will Brovold for receiving 2019-2020 academic year UCARE funding.
April-
is published in Advanced Materials.
March-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake and Will Brovold for receiving the John A Woollam Foundation Scholarship.
March-
Congratulations to Aaron Haake for receiving summer UCARE funding.
January-
SMRL welcomes new graduate student Ethan Krings.
January-
Our first piece of equipment, a UV laser micromachining system, has been installed.
January-
Our journey begins at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln!
November-
Prof. Markvicka presents at MRS in Boston, MA.
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Prof. Markvicka presents at ASME IMECE in Pittsburgh, PA.
