{"id":2270,"date":"2016-03-29T01:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T01:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme.ufl.edu\/labs\/schmidt\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:47:54","slug":"ben-receives-nsf-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/2016\/03\/29\/ben-receives-nsf-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben receives NSF Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Ben Spearman for receiving a prestigious 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Ben joined the Biomedical Engineering Department at UF as a PhD student in 2014 after graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University. He joined Dr. Christine Schmidt&#8217;s lab where he is investigating the use of natural hydrogel scaffolds such as hyaluronic acid to aid in peripheral nerve repair and regeneration. His research proposal is focused on developing a tissue engineered, regenerative peripheral nerve interface. Current peripheral nerve interfaces are plagued by problems such as immune response and a lack of signal specificity. Integrating electrodes into a tissue engineered scaffold may help alleviate these issues by allowing for a more natural integration of electrodes into the peripheral nerve.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Ben on this prestigious honor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-templates\/single-sidebar-none.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7427,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/7427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}