Biomechanics and Ornithology at Albright

Ted Ngaleu, Class of 2025

2024 - 2025

Ted worked on a project is involving aerodynamics and how the skulls of birds react to and are evolved for the pressures of flight.

Jocelyn McLaughlin, Class of 2027

2024 - 2025

Jocelyn presented outreach that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Yamilex Vargas Acevedo, Class of 2027

2024 - 2025

Yamilex worked on an outreach project that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Chelsey Nieves, Class of 2025

2024 - 2025

Chelsey worked on an outreach project that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Isabelle Geisler, Class of 2024

2023 - 2024

Isabelle worked on respiration and lungs in birds. She compared the lungs and air sacs in a variety of birds.

Charlie Leidig, Class of 2024

2023 - 2024

Charlie helped to develop curriculum for the anatomy and physiology sequence of classes. He was awarded funding for the January interim to work on his project.

Drew MacDonald, Class of 2023

Spring 2023

Drew  rewrote case study assessments in human anatomy and physiology courses. He used game design principles and processes in conjunction with medically relevant information from multiple case studies to build an immersive experience for students investigating and solving medical case studies as a part of their course experience.

Robert Schwartz, Class of 2021

2020 - 2021

Robert was interested in the tendon locking mechanism of birds and the muscles related to this function. Robert finished some exciting work on various raptor muscles and wrote a comprehensive senior thesis on perching and perching muscles during his senior year at Albright. Robert is currently a 3rd year medical student.

Brandon Lennon, Class of 2027

2024 - 2025

Brandon worked on an outreach project that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Yazmin Hernandez, Class of 2027

2024 - 2025

Yazmin worked on an outreach project that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Camila DePena, Class of 2027

2024 - 2025

Camila worked on an outreach project that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Jendri Rodriguez Castillo, Class of 2025

2024 - 2025

Jendri worked on an outreach project that brings dinosaurs into inner city schools and includes lesson plans, worksheets, and presentations conducted in both English and Spanish .

Kassidy Filosa, Class of 2024

2023 - 2024

Kassidy used models to print 3D skulls and interpret layers of tissue. Kassidy attempted to sculpt layers of tissue onto the skull to make a representation of the living head. 

Samantha Seador, Class of 2023

2022 - 2023

Samantha sculpted muscles and learned how to animate the flying motion of the wings in Blender. She worked with Kathryn to build anatomically correct and well-informed models.

Phuong Chau, Class of 2022

2021 - 2022

Phuong measured and described the teeth of bats representing a variety of diets and a number of different families in the Albright teaching collections. She has graduated and is looking forward to dental school.

Suzy Spriggs, Class of 2021

2020 - 2021

Suzy was interested in the bill tip organ, pathway of the trigeminal nerve, and neural nuclei associated with the trigeminal nerve and bill tip organ. Suzy wrote a very detailed description of the trigeminal nerve in the faces of 5 ducks, herons, and geese. Her nerve maps serve as the basis for future undergraduate research here at Albright. She and Brigette co-authored a paper on their work.