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  • Congratulations to our lab member and NC A&T Chancellor’s Fellow Alexis Moody for securing 1st place in the 24th Annual Fiber Society Conference poster competition! Alexis presented a fibroblast-derived ECM-coated fibrous scaffold for wound healing applications! Also, congratulations to our lab members, Dr. Sita Shrestha (PostDoc), Dr. Mahesh Joshi (Fulbright Visiting Scholar), Felix Tettey, Dekonti Davis (NCA&T Chancellor’s fellow), Thakur Sapkota, Reedwan  Bin Zafar Auniq who have successfully given oral and poster presentations at the 24th Annual Fiber Society Conference. Dr. Bhattarai was one of the a Keynote speakers of this conference.
  • Congratulation to Dekonti Davies and Felix Tettey for successfully passing your Qualifying Exam in Fall 2022.  Best wishes in your PhD dissertation research ahead.
  • Congratulation Sheikh Saudi on your new position! Best wishes for your next journey at Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson!
  • Congratulation to two of our fabulous MS Research Graduates, Felix Tettey and Dekonti Davies for successfully defending their thesis, 2021 Summer! We wish them all the best, and are confident that they will make great use of their research experience in their Ph.D. study at NC A&T.
  • Congratulation Sheikh Saudi for successfully completing the journey of your PhD degree. You are now officially Dr. Saudi on May 9th 2021 We are very proud that you will be a Ph.D. graduate from Bhattarai Lab! 
  • Congratulation to Sheikh Saudi for publishing his research work in Nanoscale 2020. His research article is related to fabrication of spider-web like nano-net nanofibrers for controlled release of drugs. doi.org/10.1039/D0NR05968D
  • Congratulation to Dr. Narayan Bhattarai  for being selected as conference co-chair of  37th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2021. sbec18.org/37th-sbec/
  • Christian Chavis for successfully defending his MS thesis June 2020.
  • Congratulation to Alessia Stewart for receiving a prestigious award “2020 Cato T. Laurencin Student Travel Fellowship” from the Society For Biomaterials. She will attend 2020 World Biomaterials Congress in Glasgow, Scotland.
  • Congratulation to Shalil Khanal on your special day! PhD graduate of 2019 Fall Convocation! Best wishes for your next journey at Mayo Clinic
  • Congratulation to Sara Tatum for successfully defending her Preliminary Defense Exam on 9/5/2019.  Best wishes in your PhD dissertation research ahead.
  • Congratulation Shalil Khanal for successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr. Khanal on June 27th, 2019. We are very proud that you will be our second Ph.D. graduate from Bhattarai Lab! 
  • Congratulation Kalene Johnson and Oreoluwa Alonge for successfully defending their MS thesis June 2019.  
  • Congratulation Team Bhattarai Lab (Alessia Stewart, Sheikh Saudi, Shalil Khanal, Kalene Johnson, Christian Chavis) for conducting demonstration "Cotton Candy: A Sweet Inspiration to Learn Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering" in 2019 NC Science Festival Maker Fair!
  • Congratulation Shalil Kanal (PhD candidate) and Oreoluwa Alonge (MS candidate) for selecting as Three Minute Thesis (3MT 2019) finalists and semi-finalists!
  • Congratulation Kalene Johnson for receiving the GSAC Research Mini-Grant 2019.​
  • Congratulation, Udhab Adhikari for successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr. Adhikari on September 27th, 2018. We are very proud that you will be our first Ph.D. graduate from Bhattarai Lab! 
  • Congratulation to Sunghyun Jun  for successfully defending his Master Thesis and getting selected for PhD in Biomedical Engineering program at University of Cincinnati.
  • Congratulation to Mary Omotoso for winning 2018 CATO T. LAURENCIN TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP award and for your recognization in 2018 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION April 11-14, 2018, Hilton Atlanta,  Atlanta, GA. 2018.biomaterials.org/sites/default/files/docs/2018/sfb-18-fp_web.pdf
  • Congratulation to Zanshe Thompson and Shekh Rahman for publishing their research work in Materials. The article is related to magnesium ferrite incorporated PCL-Aloe Vera Nanofibers. www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/8/937
  • Congratulation to Shekh Rahman and Princeton Carter for publishing their review article in Journal of Functional Biomaterials. The review article is on Aloe Vera for Tissue Engineering Applications. www.mdpi.com/2079-4983/8/1/6
  • Congratulations to Erika Johnson and Jaclynn Dearring, for the recognition of their outstanding research! Erika and Jaclynn were awarded first and second place in the 2017 College of Engineering Graduate Research Poster Competition. Their posters were titled “Optimization of an Empirical Cryopreservation Process for Primary Hepatocyte Ex-Vivo Models" and "Electrospun Nanofibers as Tissue Engineering Scaffolds."
  • Congratulation to Udhab Adhikari for successfully defending his Preliminary Defense Exam on May 3rd, 2017.
  • Congratulation to Dr. Narayan Bhattarai  for being selected as the Lead Guest Editor of the upcoming special Issue of Journal of Nanomaterials published by Hindawi. This special issue is on Nanostructured Biomaterials: Biomimetic Strategy to Design Next Generation Nerve Scaffolds. Click Here
  • Congratulation to the Student Chapter of The Society for Biomaterials for being one of the six Student chapter across the country to win Travel Grants for the upcoming 2017 SFB Annual Meeting and Exposition at minneapolis.
  • Congratulation to Udhab Adhikari, Shalil Khanal and Nava P. Rijal for publishing their research work in Bioactive Materials. The article was related to magnesium incorporated chitosan based scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. Click Here
  • Congratulation to Mark Case for receiving 1st place at RET-REU-YS Group Poster Competitions organized by NSF ERC-RMB at NC A&T State University. His mentors were Shalil Khanal and Udhab Adhikari.
  • Congratulation to Alan Brown and Chandler Mason for receiving 2nd place at RET-REU-YS Group Poster Competitions organized by NSF ERC-RMB at NC A&T State University. Their mentors were Udhab Adhikari and Shalil Khanal. 
  • Congratulation to our alumni Maame Boakye for her new position as the Biomedical Engineer-Technical Career Field Program with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Eagan, MN!.
  • Congratulation to Shalil Khanal, Udhab Adhikari and Nava P. Rijal for publishing their research work in Journal of Functional Biomaterials. Click Here
  • Congratulation to Nava P. Rijal for successfully defending his Master Thesis and getting selected for PhD in Biomedical Engineering program at University of Cincinnati.
  • Congratulation to Christopher Mahoney for publishing his research work in Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition. Click Here
  • Congratulation to Shekh M. Rahman for publishing his research work in Materials Science and Engineering: B. Click Here
  • Congratulation to Brittany M. Hewlin for receiving 2nd place in poster presentation at NC-LSAMP conference. 
  • Welcome to three of our new students for joining Bhattarai Research Group: Ebony K Stadler, Jaclynn A Dearring, and Dalila S Fryar
  • Congratulation to Sandeep Pasam for successfully defending his Master Thesis.
  • Congratulation to Nava P. Rijal, Shalil Khanal and Udhab Adhikari for giving a Trans-ERC Webinar Presenation on "Novel Polymeric Micro-bead Platform Technologies". 
  • Congratulation to Nava P. Rijal for his effort in establishing the student chapter "The Student Chapter of the Society For Biomaterials" here at North Carolina A&T State University. 
    • Chapter Members: 
      • President/Founder: Nava P Rijal
      • Vice-President: Udhab Adhikari
      • Secretary: Ashley D Jackson
      • Secretary-Elect/Treasure: Liu Lumei
      • By-Law Chair: Paul McGhee
      • Committee Chairman: Ebony K Stadler and Shalil Khanal 
      • Advisor: Dr. Narayan Bhattarai
  • Congratulation to Maame A. D. Boakye, Nava P. Rijal and Udhab Adhikari for publishing their research in materials journal. Click here
  • Welcome REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2015), Roslyn VanSickle! She is from a small town called Clarkston in Washington State, and she is currently attending Washington State University and pursuing a BS in Bioengineering with a minor in Mechanical Engineering. Her project focuses on fabrication and characterization of 3-D Scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. 
  • Welcome New Undergraduate Researcher, Brittany M. Hewlin! She was born and raised in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She is currently a Senior Undergraduate Student pursuing a BS in Bioengineering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University. She is the President of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Organization for the upcoming 2015-2016 Academic Year. Her project focuses on electrospinning of polymer for biomedical applications. 
  • Welcome RET (Research Experience For Teachers),  Mark Case (High School Teacher).  Mark is currently developing the educational module for high school students. He earned his Eagle Scout in 1978 and National Science Fair finalist in 1982.  He earned his Bachelor of Science (1986) and Master of Science (1988) from Southern Illinois University.  He worked 20 years as an environmental educator and camp director and the past 8 years as high school science teacher (Southern  Guilford High). Past president of North Carolina Science Teacher Association, NCSLA Fellow and Discovery Education Advisory Board. His awards include: Order of Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina Outstanding Earth Science Teacher, Outstanding High School science teacher and much more. 
  • Farewell to Zanshe and Shekh: Two of our Fabulous MS Researchers Graduate. We wish our two graduating researchers all the best of luck as they leave A&T. We wish them all the best and are confident that they will make great use of their research experience from Bhattarai Lab and their BioEng degree
  • Congratulation to Shalil Khanal for successfully passing his Ph.D. qualifying exam!
  • Bhattarai research group in the 6th student-generated newsletter ERC-RMB 
  • Congratulation to Zanshe and Shekh for being a second winner and  honorable mention in MS category, respectively  in COE poster competition on April 23, 2015! Thank you all Bhattarai lab members for participating in this competition.
  • Congratulation to Zanshe for winning the FIRST place in  Graduate Student Advisory Council's interdisciplinary research poster competition on April 17, 2015!
  • Congratulation to Bhattarai Lab members! Our team members won Biomaterials Education Challenge organized by The Society for Biomaterials Conference 2015. Our student group (Shekh Rahman, Nava, Zanshe Thopson and Udhab Adhikari)  including middle school science teacher (Ms. Cindy Nelson, Kernodle Middle School, Guilford County, NC)  won 3rd position with 500 cash prize.  “Biomaterials Education Challenge” was a student design competition, in which group of students around the country were asked to develop innovative and practical approaches to biomaterials education. Students were challenged to develop hands-on educational modules for middle school (6th-8th grade) science class. Our education module “Modeling of Biomaterials Research for Middle School Science Students:  An Inexpensive and Fun Approach to Hands-on Biomaterials Education” was designed to demonstrate a fundamental biomaterials concept suitable to a middle-school audience with hands-on and easily obtained resources. 
  • Congratulation to Roman for receiving 2015 North Carolina A&T State University Outstanding Thesis Award. This is big achievement for Roman. His thesis was first nominated from College of Engineering and later selected from our University. All the members of Bhattarai lab are proud of you.
  • Our lab together with Middle School Science Teacher (Ms. Cynthia Nelson- Kernodle Middle school) is participating in NC Science Festival on April 24th 2015. COE news link
  • Congratulation to Zanshe for giving excellent presentation in ERC-Bioengineering Journal Club! March 24th 2015
  • Congratulation to Zanshe Thompson for successfully defending her graduate thesis! March 20th 2015
  • Congratulation to Roman Blunt for his acceptance in MD program of School of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. We also wish for his successful career in the field of medicine.
  • Congratulation to Ms. Cindy Nelson (6th Grade Science teacher-Kernodle Middle School) and her NCA&T team accepted their abstract to compete the education challenge in  2015 Annual Meeting of Society of Biomaterials, Charlotte, NC
  • Congratulation to Udhab Adhikar for giving excellent presentation in ERC-Bioengineering Journal Club!
  • Udhab successfully passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam!
  • Congratulations to Roman for successfully defending his MS thesis!
  • Zanshe and Roman received a Society of Biomedical Engineering Travel Award to attend the 2014 BMES Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, congratulations to both!