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Anusha wins Best Student Paper and places 2nd in Hardware Competition at SMASIS 2025

09/15/25

At ASME SMASIS 2025 last week (Sept 8–10, St. Louis), Anusha took home the Best Student Paper Award and 2nd place in the Hardware Showcase! A fantastic recognition of her scholarship and hands-on innovation for her work on bio-inspired interlocking metasurfaces. Bravo!!

Sierra and Anusha present their work at SMASIS 2025

09/10/25

PhD students Anusha and Sierra presented their work at ASME SMASIS 2025 in St. Louis (Sept 8–10), sharing fresh results on bio-inspired and preloaded interlocking metasurfaces. Their papers will be out soon, stay tuned!

New spring publications on Interlocking Metasurfaces

04/15/25

Two new journal articles are out this spring! One introduces a bio-inspired design framework for multifunctional interlocking metasurfaces and the other demonstrates how these structures can reduce vibrations by up to an order of magnitude.

Bolmin O., P. Noell, B. Boyce, "Bio-inspired Interlocking Metasurfaces", Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/adadbb

Bolmin O., P. Noell, N. Leathe, B. Boyce, "Vibration in Interlocking Metasurfaces", Materials & Design, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.113957

Prof. Bolmin featured in MechE News

11/16/23

Prof. Bolmin was featured in the MechE News today! Following this link to discover the story: https://www.meche.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2023/11/16-meet-ophelia-bolmin.html.

The MIND Lab is hiring!

10/03/23

We have multiple openings for graduate students in the Fall of 2024. All candidates will only be considered through the official CMU application system; please apply online! More information of the Mechanical Engineering department at CMU can be found here.

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