Rutgers Student Leads Team to Build Child's Prosthesis From: Rehab Management - 11/17/2015 A biomedical engineering student at Rutgers University, as her summer research project, helped build a prosthetic hand for a child. The student, Katherine Lau, was looking for a summer research project to perform while home in Las Vegas during her summer break from college. Networking among healthcare professionals connected her to University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) mechanical engineering professor Brendan O'Toole. Lau’s team adapted public domain designs for 3D-printed hands to fit the child's size and accommodate the specific nature of her deformity. Working with Hailey throughout the summer, they fashioned a hand with fingers that grasped objects while she bent her wrist forward. Read the entire article at: http://www.rehabpub.com/2015/11/rutgers-student-leads-team-build-childs-prosthesis Links: Katherine Lau https://douglass.rutgers.edu/students/katherine-lau Rutgers Biomedical Engineering Student Leads Team to Build a Prosthesis for Little Girl's Hand http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/rutgers-biomedical-engineering-student-leads-team-build-prosthesis-little-girl%E2%80%99s-hand/20140928 Rutgers Student Led a Team that Built a Prosthesis for Little Girl's Hand http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/rutgers-student-led-team-built-prosthesis-little-girl%E2%80%99s-hand/20151115 Rutgers student lends a helping hand http://btn.com/2014/10/16/btn-livebig-rutgers-student-lends-a-helping-hand