Katherine Miranda
Katherine is a Senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and her first paper just got published!
She joined Gamma Eta on Fall 2018 with Sigma Class, and she is currently the Vice President of Administration for the Gamma Chapter Executive Board.
The Big Accomplishment
Her major
Like we mentioned before, our sister Katherine is majoring in Biomedical Engineering at the UofA, and will be graduating next Spring (May 2020).
Biomedical engineering bridges the gap between the engineering and medical fields to be able to provide improvements to health care. As a Biomedical Engineer, Katherine would be able to design and build high-tech devices like prosthetics, imaging machines, artificial organs, and even diagnostic tools and medicine treatments.
Her research
In Fall 2019, Katherine became interested in being part of a research project. She had already taken classes with UofA Chemical Engineering professor Dr. Jorge Almodóvar, and really liked a project he was working on during that time. After talking to him, Katherine decided to join his research team and so she began working as an undergraduate research assistant.
The article
Just a few weeks ago, on September 23rd, she was featured as co-author on a research paper tittled “Design, characterization, and modeling of a chitosan microneedle patch for transdermal delivery of meloxicam as a pain management strategy for use in cattle”, for the ‘Materials Science & Engineering’ magazine.
The article, which talks about the project she had been working on for the past few semesters, describes the creation of a microneedle patch that releases a drug that helps alleviate the pain cattle undergo after spaying, dehorning, or tail docking them. The project is based on animal welfare because if they are under stress, it influences things like the meat quality, or milk flavor, etc.
Originally, the processes mentioned above are done using a needle that injects the drug in the cow every six hours for two weeks, but trying to inject a thousand cows so often just became too much for the industry. Their microneedle patch proposes a huge improvement and a better, more efficient way to get the work done. The patch is placed in the cow’s ears one time, and it automatically releases the drug gradually until the pain goes away.
The article will only be available to the public for free during 50 days, so make sure you check it out before then!
“Design, characterization, and modeling of a chitosan microneedle patch for transdermal delivery of meloxicam as a pain management strategy for use in cattle”
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In Gamma Eta, one of our pillars of excellence is Scholarship, and our sisters keep being proof of this.
Like Katherine, we have many other sisters that work to enhance their academic and professional endeavors. Sisters of Gamma Eta have led their respective universities in various capacities, both as students and staff, and held prestigious positions all around the world in their professional careers supporting one another to achieve their goals.
