{"id":3829,"date":"2019-11-04T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme.ufl.edu\/labs\/schmidt\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:47:07","slug":"congrats-to-ben-spearman-on-successful-phd-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/2019\/11\/04\/congrats-to-ben-spearman-on-successful-phd-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Ben Spearman on Successful PhD Defense!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 4, 2019<\/p>\n<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>November 4, 2019<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCongratulations to Ben Spearman who successfully defended his PhD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":3835,"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-3829","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\/3829","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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/schmidt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}