{"id":3785,"date":"2019-11-07T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme.ufl.edu\/labs\/schmidt\/?page_id=3785"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:24:14","slug":"november-4-2019-ben-spearmans-phd-defense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/photos\/november-4-2019-ben-spearmans-phd-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"November 4, 2019: Ben Spearman\u2019s PhD Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ben Spearman who successfully defended his PhD, &#8220;Advanced Uses for Methacrylated Hyaluronic Acid in Peripheral Nerve Tissue Engineering&#8221;. Ben joined our lab in 2014 after completing his B.S. in chemical engineering from Auburn University. During his time as a PhD student, Ben held a highly prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>Ben is shown here with his committee members, Drs. Jack Judy, Christine Schmidt (Chair), Kevin Otto &amp; Jennifer Andrew:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3787\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2019\/11\/image007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3787 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2019\/11\/image007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2019\/11\/image007.jpg 448w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2019\/11\/image007-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congrats Dr. Spearman!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ben Spearman who successfully defended his PhD, &#8220;Advanced Uses for Methacrylated Hyaluronic Acid in Peripheral Nerve Tissue Engineering&#8221;. Ben joined our lab in 2014 after completing his B.S. in chemical engineering from Auburn University. During his time as a PhD student, Ben held a highly prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Ben is shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"parent":195,"menu_order":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3785","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3785\/revisions\/6917"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}