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 @cornellengineering.bsky.social 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!

So fun to go to Emma's acapella concert on friday!! we <3 less than three acapella :)

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.

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!! so many good pies yesterday!!!

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! Proud of the many amazing scientists who’ve been mentors, collaborators, colleagues, protégés, friends, etc #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #IDWGS

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! Come check out our posters on Monday night at the poster reception!!

Lab outing #2 to watch the figure skating club do their thing!! So proud of T & the whole club, was so well put on and fun to watch!!

Really enjoyed our lab outing to Emma's acapella concert last friday! So fetch 💁‍♀️