February 1, 2026
Prasanth will be working on the incorporation of novel peptides into our protease-responsive shape memory polymers.

January 12, 2026
Shaphia and Vishnu will work with Ernest on antioxidant foams for hemorrhage control, and Vibha will work with Sevde on degradable and antimicrobial foams for wound healing.

November 18, 2025
Thalma’s research on infection-sensing wound dressings has a huge potential impact, and her ability to communicate its importance will contribute to its future success! After making it to the finals (the top 10 competitors out of 85 students in the prelims), Thalma won 2nd place!

November 1, 2025
It was lovely celebrating Magnus Hook’s retirement from a wonderfully successful career along with my PhD advisor, Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez!

October 20, 2025
We had amazing food from all over the world: Kenyan from Thalma Orado, Turkish from Sevde Nur Can, Ghanaian from Ernest Emmanuel Obeng, Persian from Hossein Akhtar, Chinese from Jingwen Zhao, Russian from Maya Yagan, and American South from me.

September 15, 2025
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September 1, 2025
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August 28, 2025
Claire will work with Hossein on hydrogels for chronic wound healing.

August 25, 2025
Jingwen will be working with Thalma on bacteria-responsive shape memory polymers, and Maya will work with Ernest and Sevde on foams for hemorrhage control.

August 22, 2025

August 1, 2025
Big news from the MBM lab: we’ve moved to Texas A&M University Department of Biomedical Engineering!

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June 11, 2025
Thalma, Ernest, and Sevde all presented their work, and we all enjoyed some time in NYC afterwards!

May 10, 2025
We celebrated with a BBQ dinner at Dr. Monroe’s house.

May 7, 2025
Hossein cooked us a delicious lunch that we shared on a rainy day at Clark Reservation, followed by bowling!

April 22, 2025
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April 9, 2025
Nghia was honored with the SFB Student Award for Outstanding Research, Natalie won the 3-Minute Thesis Competition, Ernest presented his first oral conference presentation, and Sevde had her first conference poster!

April 7, 2025
We celebrated with a dinner at Dr. Monroe’s house!

March 24, 2025
Congratulations to Sevde and Natalie for winning poster awards!

March 15, 2025
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March 6, 2025
Natalie presented on her work on shape memory polymer foams for traumatic wound care at the award reception.

March 5, 2025
We celebrated with a lab dinner at Phoebe’s!

February 12, 2025
This award is accompanied by Nghia’s publication in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Part A and his upcoming presentation at SFB in Chicago.

January 10, 2025
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January 18, 2025
We’re taking advantage of the beautiful snow while we can this winter!

December 18, 2024

December 5, 2024

September 23, 2024
Thalma discussed her mechanochromic shape memory polymers for infection detection.

August 1, 2024

July 31, 2024
We enjoyed a hike, viewing frogs and snakes, watching birds, eating lunch, and kayaking together!

July 18, 2024
The issue is on stimuli responsive materials for biomedical applications and features Maryam’s research! Read more here.

July 9, 2024
We enjoyed celebrating Anand and Reema in New Jersey at their beautiful and joyful wedding ceremony!

June 2, 2024
Dr. Monroe presented on her NIH and DoD funded work related to hemorrhage control in traumatic wounds.

May 11, 2024 
Congratulations again to Maryam and Changling on their excellent dissertation work and their post-graduate successes!

May 7, 2024
Kat culminated almost 6 years in the MBM lab as an undergraduate and M.S. student today, when she defended her work on the development of an in vitro liver injury model.

April 18, 2024
Avery will start a position at Lotte Biologics in summer 2024.

April 10, 2024
This is the highest honor that the Bioengineering program offers 1 Ph.D. student each year based on the excellence of their dissertation work.

March 18, 2024
Maryam was one of 5 Engineering and Computer Science students to receive this award, which is the highest honor that Syracuse University offers to its top PhD graduates.

January 10, 2024
This award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of biomaterials research. Read about all of the 2024 award winners here.

September 1, 2023
We celebrated with a make-your-own pizza party at Dr. Monroe’s house. Changling will finish up some projects and train our new PhD student this fall before heading home to China.

July 20, 2023
We enjoyed grilling burgers for lunch, kayaking, hiking, and games together!

June 17, 2023
We celebrated with a make-your-own rice bowl party at Dr. Monroe’s house. Maryam has accepted a position as Senior Polymer Research Engineer at Copeland that she will start in July.

May 3, 2023
David’s thesis work focused on characterizing drug release from magnetically actuated shape memory polymers.

April 30, 2023
She presented her work on synthesizing off-the-shelf shape memory polymer foams for hemorrhage control and characterizing them in an in vitro model.

April 20, 2023
This is the highest honor that the Society for Biomaterials gives to students and is accompanied with Maryam’s published paper in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.

April 15, 2023
This fellowship will support Natalie’s dissertation research on shape memory polymer foams for traumatic wound healing.

April 15, 2023
This prize is the highest honor given to PhD students at Syracuse University and recognizes their hard work and impactful research.

April 4, 2023
The Society for Biomaterials selects Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) awards based on student abstracts.

February 14, 2023
Sapaydia presented on her REU work from last summer and earned 2nd place for the Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Materials subsection of the Biological Sciences discipline at the conference. She was also supported by a travel grant!

February 3, 2023
We had a potluck charcuterie for dinner with the female grad students, postdocs, and faculty in the BMCE department!

January 17, 2023
Isaac is a visiting scholar from the Chemistry department at King College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He will be working on making degradable linkers for our biomaterials this spring.

November 18, 2022
We celebrated a great fall semester with wonderful food from all over the world!

August 29, 2022
We celebrated at Dr. Monroe’s house with a make-your-own pizza party, a pizookie, and ice cream. Anand has accepted a position at Ethicon that he will start this fall.

August 11, 2022
Henry’s dissertation covered the use of isocyanate-based chemistries to add simple, low-cost modifications to biomaterials. We celebrated with tacos and peach cobbler at Dr. Monroe’s house afterwards.

July 29, 2022
We had a lovely time canoeing and kayaking on Kasaog Lake, thanks to Tug Hill Outfitters!

June 24, 2022
Dr. Monroe presented on SMPs for Crohn’s Fistulas in the Stimuli-Responsive and Multifunctional Polymers session at CIMTEC 2022.

June 22, 2022
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June 12, 2022
Dr. Monroe judged science fair posters of the top students from across the state of New York, and then delivered the keynote talk at the New York State Science Congress at the Museum of Science & Technology (MOST).

May 12, 2022
Congratulations to all of the MBM Lab students on their well-deserved awards and honors at SFB 2022 in Baltimore!

May 12, 2022
Maryam will present her work on bacteria-responsive SMPs, and Caitlyn will present her research on the effects of phenolic acids on hydrogel mechanical and antimicrobial properties at SFB’s 2022 meeting in Baltimore

April 30, 2022
Their module on teaching about gas blown foams with cakes was honored with 1st place in the Biomaterials Education Challenge, which comes with $1500 for our student chapter!

April 29, 2022
Congratulations on excellent presentations, and thanks to BioInterfaces for recognizing our lab’s work!

April 27, 2022
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April 13, 2022 
Natalie focused on tuning the pore structure of SMP foams for her MS thesis. She is staying in the MBM lab to pursue her PhD next year!

February 11, 2022
Dr. Monroe did an interview on her work and the importance of female mentors in STEM to celebrate.

January 25, 2022
This award honors outstanding achievement in biomaterials research.

January 6, 2022
Dr. Monroe joined other researchers from SU and SUNY Upstate to discuss Biomedical Technologies and their future impact on our lives.

September 30, 2021 
Congratulations to all for participating. Natalie’s work will be featured in the SurFACTS newsletter.

August 6, 2021

May 11, 2021
Natalie will continue her research as a M.S. student in the MBM Lab, and Ellen is looking for jobs in industry.

May 11, 2021
Congratulations to Ellen on successfully passing her MS thesis defense on her work on in vitro blood interactions with shape memory polymer foams!

April 21, 2021
Henry and Maryam were 2 of 25 recipients for the 2021 SFB meeting. The Student Travel Achievement Recognitions (STARs) recognize research excellence and develop future leaders within SFB.

April 13, 2021
Natalie was one of two undergraduates selected for an award that recognizes seniors who have made outstanding contributions to the beauty of the world, to human values and to ending human abuse anywhere in the world.
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December 12, 2020
Congratulations to Maryam on passing her PhD qualifier/proposal exam!

May 17, 2020
Congratulations to Nakira on successfully passing her MS thesis defense on her work on in vitro models of hemorrhage!

February 17, 2020
Gloria was born on February 13, 2020. The Monroes are all thrilled to meet her, and she and mom are both healthy and happy!

January 1, 2020
The 1 year grant supports innovative clinical and translational research projects with the potential to impact the treatment of IBD patients in the near future. Dr. Monroe’s work focuses on synthesizing shape memory polymer hydrogels for Crohn’s fistula closure.

December 17, 2019 
Congratulations to our first lab graduate, Jingyi, on passing her MS thesis defense!

December 14, 2019
Congratulations to Henry on passing his PhD qualifier/proposal exam!

December 6, 2019 
Congratulations to Anand on passing his PhD qualifier/proposal exam!

August 1, 2019 

April 13, 2019