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BORJANA MIKIC

Picker Engineering Program Smith College

DOMENICO GRAsso

Picker Engineering Program Smith College

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Borana Mikic is Associate Professor in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Maurice Mueller Institute for Biomechanics in Bern, Switzerland and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. In her research, she studies the role of biological and mechanical factors that influence the establishment, maintenance, and restoration of biomechanical function in the skeletal tissues. Dr. Mikic teaches Introduction to Engineering, The Science and Mechanics of Materials, Skeletal Biomechanics, and Failure Analysis.

Address: Picker Engineering Program, Smith College, 51 College Lane, Northampton, MA, 01063; telephone: 413-585-7007; fax: 413-585-7001; e-mail: bmikic@smith.edu.