Adam Blakeney
Last month, Bryan and I traveled to Birmingham to see our son, Adam, receive two special awards at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. We were very proud to witness him accepting the Biomedical Engineering Student of the Year Award and the Dean’s Award for being the most outstanding student in the School of Engineering. Recently, he was part of an adult stem cell research team that published “A hybrid biomimetic scaffold composed of electrospun polycaprolactone nanofibers and self-assembled peptide amphiphile nanofibers” in Biofabrication. I know, I know. I have no idea what that means either.
Tonight, we learned of one more wonderful accomplishment. Adam has been named ASPE (Alabama Society of Professional Engineers) Engineering Student of the Year. He was selected from among the top students studying various aspects of engineering at colleges and universities throughout the state of Alabama. Who knows what the future holds? Maybe he will have a hand in finding better treatments for congenital heart defects. We are very excited for him.
But we are also a little incredulous. This is the same young man who ran around my living room in Osh Kosh B’gosh singing the theme song to “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (…Heroes on the half shell – Turtle Power!). This is the little kid who could recite verbatim Star Trek’s introductory sequence: “Space… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. It’s five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before…”
[Update: The University of Alabama at Birmingham has posted an article about Adam's accomplishments on their website. See http://main.uab.edu/Sites/MediaRelations/articles/67820/.]
Tags: Adam Blakeney, Congenital Heart Defects, stem cell research, University of Alabama at Birmingham
July 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
We’re proud of him over here in Alabama, too. =) =)
July 27th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
You must be thatSMARTredheadedgirl. I still can’t figure out how to put an avatar on my comments. Maybe I can talk the ASPE Engineering Student of the Year into doing that for me.
July 29th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Adam Blakeney: Change you can believe in.