Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby first authored “Fabrication of Microgel-Reinforced Hydrogels via Vat Photopolymerization” in the journal ACS Macro Letters with Abhishek Dhand and the Burdick Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. The manuscript is the culmination of his pre-tenure sabbatical and demonstrates for the first time that micron-sized hydrogels can be incorporated at high densities in complex resin-printed geometries. The work can be found here.

—May 2025

Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby presented his sabbatical research, titled “Digital light processing 3D printing of microgel-reinforced hydrogels,” via a 15-minute platform presentation at the 2025 Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Annual Meeting held in Chicago on April 10. The first-author work is currently under review.

—April 2025

Physics majors Joseph (Joe) Dorsey ’26 and Amanda Mejia ’27 attended the Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference (CTURC) hosted at the University of Texas at Austin. Joe presented platform presentations on his and Amanda’s research conducted in the bioprinting laboratory of Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby.

—April 2025

Associate Professor of Computer Science Jacob Schrum and Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby had their paper, “A Quality Diversity Approach to Evolving Model Rockets,” accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. For this paper, evolutionary computation algorithms studied by Dr. Schrum were applied to the problem of designing model rockets, like those built by Dr. Crosby’s students in his Introduction to Engineering class. The designs evolved by Dr. Schrum’s program were simulated in a computer, and the most promising designs were built by physics and computer science double-major Kade Townsend ’25, before being launched and evaluated in the real world.

—March 2025

Joseph (Joe) Dorsey ’26, Gabriela Nicole Hislop Gomez ’26, Bryan Guzman-Sanchez ’26, Sabina Martinez Carreon ’28, and Amanda Mejia ’27 attended the Texas Academy of Science (TAS) 2025 Annual Meeting hosted in Waco. Joe and Amanda presented platform presentations on their research conducted in the bioprinting laboratory of Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby. Joe was awarded first place among the platform presentations in the physics and engineering section. Dr. Crosby also contributed as one of the meeting’s section chairs.

—March 2025