08/2024     Undergraduate student Alyssa Young and graduate student Cong Meng joined the group. Welcome!

05/2024     [Student Award] Mitesha received MAE-REU award to support her summer research in our group. Congratulations!

03/2024     [Student Award] Keren won the second place in the MAE Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!

01/2024     Our collaborative proposal has been funded by the Fall 2023 Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program.

01/2024     Undergraduate student Mitesha Saha joined the group. Welcome!

08/2023     Professor Hu has been awarded the NIA (National Institute on Aging) Trailblazer Award by the National Institute of Health (NIH). We are extremely grateful for NIA’s support of our effort to investigate the integrated experimental and computational approach for accurate patient-specific vascular embolization. News

03/2023     Our Innovation Impact Grant Proposal (PI: Dr. Schmidt, Duke University) submitted to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Acquisition of a VRS1250 Video Rate Imaging Module for a Shared‐Use Asylum‐Cypher Atomic Force Microscope has been funded. 

03/2023     We have received a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). We thank NIH for the support!

01/2023    Graduate student Peng Chen joined the group. Welcome!

12/2022     Our proposal has been selected for funding under the Global Health thematic focus area of the Fall 2022 Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) Program. 

10/2022     Prof. Hu was awarded 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). News

09/2022    Graduate students Keren Zhao, and George Varghese joined the group. Welcome!

06/2022    Our group received support from North Carolina Biotechnology Center for Flash Grant Program. 

06/2022    Prof. Hu wins the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). MAE News, ORAU News

05/2022    Prof. Hu has been awarded by the Faculty Research and Professional Development Program (FRPD).  

03/2022    Our group has been awarded its first grant from the Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE, an NIEHS-funded Environmental Health Science Core Center) at NC State through the Pilot Project Program (PPP). 

01/2022    Undergraduate students Caleb Overman and Justin Proscia joined the group. Welcome!

08/2021    Prof. Hu joined MAE department at NC State.