Leia Troop & Madison Bates Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!!!

Congratulations to current Puetzer Lab PhD student Leia Troop and former lab undergraduate Madison Bates for being awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!!  The NSF GRFP awards exceptional graduate students with 3 years stipend and tuition coverage to advance their studies in STEM-based disciplines. Leia will be continuing her research evaluating how cyclic tensile loading drives  hierarchical fiber maturation and LOX crosslinking in engineered ligaments.  Madison is currently a PhD student at Vanderbilt University in Dr. Cynthia Reinhart-King's lab. Congrats Leia and Madison!!!