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 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 .
2019-
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.
November-
Prof. Markvicka presents at ASME IMECE in Pittsburgh, PA.
