Awards

• Dylan Easley (2024) 1st place in the Innovation and Technology Advancement category of Virginia Tech graduate research symposium (GPSS symposium)

• Dylan Easley (2024)  3rd place, VT Muscle Symposium (oral presentation category)

• Vincent Wang (2024) – Fellow of the Orthopaedic Research Society

• Georgina Flynn-Smith (2024) - Army Achievement Medal (AAM) for research

• Sarah Crimmins (2023) – VT-WFU SBES Symposium, 3rd place Oral Presentation, Biomedical Imaging session

• Chitra Meduri (2023) – VT-WFU SBES Symposium, 1st place Oral Presentation, Biomechanics session

• Georgina Flynn-Smith (2023) – Runner-up, ORS Tendon Section Elevator Pitch competition

• Kendal Carter (2022) –  Letter of Distinction in Research Scholarship, VTCSOM

• Vincent Wang (2022) Leader in Teaching Award, BEAM

• Demi Poulos, Zach Kozar, Logan Dickinson, Skye Carlson (2021): Dan H. Pletta Award for Most Outstanding BEAM Senior Project (project co-advisors, V. Wang, J. Wayne, and R. Clements)

• Carrie Cheung (2021) – VT-WFU SBES Symposium, 1st place Oral Presentation, Device Design & Computational Modeling session

• Carrie Cheung (2021) - ORS Student/Trainee Conference Registration Award

• Mary Mitchell (VCOM Sports fellow) - Best Research Podium Presentation, American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine (AOASM) Annual Meeting, May 1-3, 2020

• Chitra Meduri (2020) – VT-WFU SBES (virtual) Symposium 1st place, poster competition

• Sabah Rezvani (2020) - ON Foundation education grant to support travel to 2020 Annual Meeting of the ORS (one of only 10 total international awardees)

• Zachary Kozar (2020) - VCOM Research Day undergraduate poster finalist

• Isabelle Baker, Eric Brubacher, Hunter Hemmings, Brooke Suesser, Calvin Wangota (2019): Dan H. Pletta Award for Most Outstanding BEAM Senior Project (project advisor, V. Wang)

• Sabah Rezvani was awarded 2nd place for the student poster competition  at the 3rd Annual Virginia Tech Muscle Symposium on April 27, 2019
  
  
• Pratt Fellowship, VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, awarded to Sabah Rezvani (2016-17)

• Walts Fellowship, VT-WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, awarded to Kristen Hulbert (2015-16)

• ISLT Best Poster Award, to Katie Trella, 2015

• AOSSM Annual Meeting Best Poster Award, to Rachel Frank, 2014

• Jacquelin Perry Resident Research Award, Ruth Jackson Orthopedic Society, awarded to Sanjeev Bhatia, 2012

• Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship awarded to Vasili Karas, 2011

• Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) Junior Investigator Grant awarded to Vincent Wang, 2011

• American Medical Association (AMA) Research Symposium, Best Poster Presentation in Surgery/Biomedical Engineering awarded to Harold Fogel, 2010

• Thomas Andriacchi fellowship, UIC Bioengineering, awarded to Rebecca Bell, 2010

• Rush Medical College Anthony J. Schmidt, Ph.D. Prize in Anatomical Sciences awarded to Nicole Friel, 2010

• Lloyd Taylor Resident Award, Western Orthopaedic Association, awarded to Neil Ghodadra, 2009

• National Student Research Forum (NSRF) Best Oral Presentation in Surgery and Orthopedic Medicine awarded to Nicole Friel, 2009

• AOA Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship awarded to Nicole Friel,2009

• American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Young Investigator Grant awarded to Nikhil Verma,2008

• Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship awarded to Adam Yanke, 2007