Most of you probably received my spam emails announcing that some of the research I work on would be featured on NOVA and National Geographic (these links connect to the actual episodes). For those of you lucky enough to evade those emails, I've finally caught you!
Last winter a film crew from NOVA came along with the host Neil deGrasse Tyson (yes, the guy behind demoting Pluto from planetary status) to film at our lab. Then this past summer we had National Geographic with their crew. Both wanted to cover our research on making a tissue engineered ear (basically human made ear cartilage) for wounded soldiers. It just so happened that they both aired within a few weeks of one another.
For those interested, I am the one who created the computer models of the ear and then made the scaffolds. I also made the wire 'skeleton' for the ear all by hand. In fact, in the National Geographic version they even showed me, mentioned my name, and included me talking for a bit! I'm totally famous! Well... not really, but it was sure fun to actually be in it. In the NOVA version they showed my boss (seen below holding the ear I designed) sitting at my computer looking at my files. Because my boss doesn't know how to use my software, I got to be just off camera to help make sure everything on the computer looked just right.
It was very exciting and is something that will be added to my resume soon.
For those of you who couldn't catch the National Geographic version (it was only shown on the National Geographic channel), you are all invited over to watch it whenever you want.
1 comments:
I'm siding with National Geographic on this one.
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