{"id":3161,"date":"2018-11-09T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme.ufl.edu\/labs\/schmidt\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:19:16","slug":"congratulations-chris-successful-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/2018\/11\/09\/congratulations-chris-successful-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Chris &#8211; successful PhD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Christopher Lacko, who successfully defended his PhD today! Chris\u2019s research was on using novel magnetic templating methods to create microarchitecture inside hydrogels for peripheral nerve regeneration applications. Chris\u2019s committee consisted of Drs. Carlos Rinaldi, Peter McFetridge and David Fuller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3163\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic2-300x225.png\" alt=\"Five people standing together and posing playfully for a group photo during a PhD celebration.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3165\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic1-300x225.png\" alt=\"Five people standing side by side and smiling for a formal group photo indoors after a PhD defense.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2018\/11\/pic1.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 2018<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCongratulations to Christopher Lacko, who successfully defended his PhD today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":3167,"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":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","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\/3161","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=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}