Durrani Presents at National Collegiate Research Conference

Two Columbia Engineering seniors—Sonia Bansal and Haris Durrani—will present their research at the prestigious National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) in January. The three-day gathering, hosted by Harvard University, showcases some of the most promising and significant work from rising undergraduate leaders in the global research sphere. Bansal, a biomedical engineering major, will share a poster examining her work in orthopedic tissue engineering, “Bell-shaped Dose Response Of Sodium Pyruvate On Properties Of Tissue Engineered Cartilage,” which was supervised by Biomedical Engineering Professor Clark Hung. Durrani, an applied physics student, will present a poster on his research concerning “Space Debris: Observation, Mitigation, Remediation and Their Legal Factors,” which was supervised by Professor of Professional Practice (and former NASA astronaut) Mike Massimino BS’84.