Check out our August Newsletter! Enjoy ❤️
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Check out our August Newsletter! Enjoy ❤️
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🚨🎉 Exciting news! I’ve taken on a new role as Associate Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin 🎉 🚨
This is my first formal administrative position. Wish me luck 😂.
🚨 We have 2-3 post-doc openings and an opening for a lab manager, all in soft material/tissue mechanics. 🚨
Check out www.manuelrausch.com and submit an application here: lnkd.in/e7W27XwZ. Please share with interested parties and your network. Many thanks ❤️!
Our first newsletter is out 🎉. Check it out and subscribe 😍
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If you'd like to receive regular updates on my lab's activities (academic and outreach), please sign up for our newsletter: manuelrausch.substack.com.
In our April issue, you'll hear from an alumni; I'll introduce a new lab member and spotlight one of our outstanding undergraduates.
Enjoy 🥰 !
I have done this twice before, in 2021 and 2022. The recordings of those sessions are here (lnkd.in/e75j9tRz) and here (lnkd.in/edF6scuR).
In 2023 and 2024, I was on the steering committee of the ASEE NSF CAREER workshop. Unfortunately, this program is not offered this year. Therefore, four recent NSF CAREER Winners and I have decided to put together an informal Q&A to support future CAREER winners!
Sign up here: lnkd.in/evq4bYnv
Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on
The Staggering Success of Vaccines
www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
UW-Madison on proposed NIH indirect cost cap: “This proposed change to NIH funding–UW–Madison’s largest source of federal support–will significantly disrupt vital research activity and delay lifesaving discoveries and cures related to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and much more.” 1/x
I needed that…
Have you been a victim of cancel culture??
DM/email me if you’ve had a transportation research project canceled in the past week. Affected work seems mostly to be XCRP but we’re interested in all funders.
Goal is to quantify the collective impact on the field and chronicle the undone science.
I am sorry to hear that, dude. 💔
If you are directly affected by a cancellation of a meeting you were scheduled to participate in or at which your grant may have been discussed, consider reaching out.
My phone literally dies three times a day.
Where?
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Rumor has it NIH study sections are being cancelled in response to executive orders? Anyone have any specifics?
Coming home after a full day of meetings:
I see the pressure of raising funds leading many junior faculty to prioritize "money" over seemingly less urgent tasks, e.g., building a lab with well-trained students and a positive culture. Be careful: Like a house, your lab needs a strong foundation! Happy to chat with anyone seeking advice!
We conclude our work by stating: "It is not without a sense of irony and awe that we make this recommendation, as 70 years of numerical method development and advancements in imaging technology have apparently not improved our ability to estimate fracture toughness from pure shear experiments." 🧵5/5
We then compared them by three metrics: intra- and inter-approach variability, computational cost, and implementation complexity. The WINNER was what we called the Griffith A approach based on the work by Rivlin and Thomas (1953). 🧵4/5
We next compared three broadly different approaches of extracting fracture toughness from these experiments. Some of the methods had multiple manifestation. In total we came up with six different ways (see our paper for all the details). 🧵3/5
We first conducted (notched and untouched) pure shear experiments on blood clots. Of the notched samples, we varied the notch length. All data are openly available! 🧵2/5
With support of friends, colleagues, and lab mates, we compared (six) different ways to compute #fracture toughness of soft materials. We did so using #bloodclot as a model material. We appreciate the support of the reviewers and the Int J Fracture Mechanics: 🧵1/5 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How do y'all track attendance in your classes? Can someone recommend a free attendance tracker that can help avoid proxy sign-ins?
I love those little notes from my Statics students. Never change y'all 🥰
My unfinished projects watching me agree to an new collaboration
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Read about our recent work on measuring brain stiffness with 7T MR Elastography
www.me.washington.edu/news/article...
Did I win a society award this year? No. Did I win an R01 this year? Also, no. But, did I win my department's "Ugliest Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest" - Heck yeah.
Happy Holidays, y'all! 🤣
