William Polacheck   Undergraduate Student Biological Engineering Project Web Page: Electrokinetic Transport in Cartilage and Tissue-engineered Cartilage Scaffolds Email: wjp7@cornell.edu Address: 282 Grumman Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: (607) 255-0975 Fax: (607) 255-1222   Bill Polacheck currently works on designing new fabrication techniques for engineered cartilage tissue scaffolds. Specifically, Bill develops and modifies tissue scaffolds to decouple electrokinetic, mechanical, and transport processes to further elucidate their roles in mechanotransduction. More generally, Bill’s interests lie in the development of tissue scaffolds to understand mechanotransduction in cartilage. Biography Bill Polacheck joined the Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in June of 2007. In May 2008, Bill plans to graduate with a B.S. in Biological and Environmental Engineering. Bill has previously worked in the Cornell Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory and has developed an interest in the application of mechanical engineering principles to solve biological problems.  Bill is a member of the Cornell Biological Engineering Honor Society, and the Institute for Biological Engineers. Current Projects Current projects include the design and use of engineered materials as tissue scaffolds to systematically control cellular environment, allowing the roles of streaming potentials and other electrokinetic and mechanical transport processes to be independently controlled and analyzed with respect to cartilage mechanotransduction. Education - B.S. expected May 2008 – Cornell University, Biological and Environmental Engineering