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Join the Hybrid Body Lab for an artist talk with artist Lauren Hooks. Lauren is a stylist and content creator with 10+ years of experience, blending artistry and strategy. Specializing in artistic braiding and editorial styling, she merges technical skill with cultural storytelling. Lauren is the 2026 Artist-in-Residence at the Hybrid Body Lab.

In this presentation, an introduction to biopolymer electrospinning process, as well as an overview of applications of nanofibrous biopolymer mats and their composites created by both a traditional and modified electrospinning process will be discussed. Electrospinning is a fabrication technique, which can be used to create nanofibrous non-wovens from a variety of starting polymer materials. The structure, chemical and mechanical stability, functionality, and other properties of the mats can be modified to match end applications

The exhibit displays student work from DEA/PSYCH/COG SCI 1500: Introduction to Environmental Psychology for an Ergonomic Analysis exercise. This exercise asks students to conduct an ergonomic analysis of their surroundings, identify a problem and propose a solution to the observed problem.

Problem: Students identify an ergonomic problem and analyze what the likely causes of this poor interface are, based on human factors concepts learned in class. For their analysis, students also discuss a salient social