Congratulations to Chelsea (nee Dressel) Pernici for earning a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Chelsea was an ambitious and award winning student. She taught undergraduate engineering classes for two years while taking graduate classes and progressing to PhD candidacy. After this, she led two challenging studies that evaluated the efficacy of potential therapeutic compounds to mitigate secondary damage to neural cells after brain injury in rodent models of stroke and traumatic brain injury. She used behavioral tests and a novel, longitudinal imaging technique developed in our lab to observe the same cells at set time points over several weeks. Chelsea has received several honors, including the Outstanding PhD Student Academic Award in 2017 from the Biomedical Engineering Program at Louisiana Tech University, the Second Place Award for a Graduate Student Presentation at the 2017 Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, and a featured graduate student (oral) presentation at the 2018 Industry and Neuroscience Research Day, a northern LA conference. She will join Karen Wilcox's lab at the University of Utah in September. Dr. Wilcox is a Professor and Chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology who is the Principle Investigator of the Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) Program funded by the National Institutes of Health.