David Ancalle

My poster "Physics of flatulence" won the Best Paper Award in Animal Bioacoustics at the Acoustical Society of America!

A book I reviewed was published! Check out Plesha, Gray, & Constanzo's "Engineering Mechanics" (3rd ed).
I presented a talk on earwax at the Physics of Living Systems Lunch and Learn organized by the Georgia Tech School of Physics.

Vaughn Claussen has joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion.
José Collazo has joined our consulting team for an internship.
Luke Maran has joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion for a research internship.

Kyliyah Daniel has joined my consulting team as a undergraduate intern.
I presented a poster titled "Physics of flatulence" at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) annual meeting in Seattle, WA.

Undergraduates Charles, Nelson, and Krys presented their posters at the regional meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (rSICB) in Atlanta, GA.

Charles Finn and I traveled to Bangor, ME to present a poster titled "Earwax deters crawling insects and aids in self-cleaning" at the annual meeting of the Society of Rheology (SoR).

Krys Quiroz has joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion for a research internship.

I accepted a position as Lecturer for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Kennesaw State University.

July 2021

Marco Taveras has joined my consulting team as an undergraduate intern.
I gave an informal talk on my research at Georgia Tech titled "Mammal Biofluids and their Functions"
I presented my research at the Great Minds in STEM (GMiS) Early Career Faculty Symposium. My talk was titled "Function of Biofluids in Mammal Orifices".
We presented a workshop on water treatment plants for an invited talk at the Jornadas Académicas Virtuales del Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de Oruro (CICO). Our talk was titled "Plantas de Tratamiento de Agua: El Caso de la Planta de Tratamiento de Cunningham".

Joseph Walter and Robert Zhang have joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion for a summer internship, which they completed in August 2021.
Hunter Grant and Florencia Cloitre have joined my consulting team as undergraduate interns.
Eric Smith has completed his undergraduate internship and will continue in my team as a full-time project engineer.

I was awarded a grant for Affordable Learning Georgia to develop a math course for engineering students.
I passed my PhD Qualifying Exams! My topics were fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.

Charles Finn has joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion for a research internship, which he completed in Dec. 2021.
Nelson Jiang has joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion for a research internship.
I was one of the 11 recipients of the BOLD Graduate Fellowship offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Georgia Tech!

Rami Okasha has joined my consulting team for a Spring internship, which he completed in May 2021.

Miguel Zadorosny presented our work on earwax at the regional meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (rSICB).

Miguel Zadorosny has joined our team at the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion for a Fall research internship, which he completed in Dec. 2020.
I joined the Hu Lab for Biolocomotion.
Hattie Walrod has joined my consulting team for a Fall internship, which she completed in January 2021.

I completed a year of teaching math with Art of Problem Solving Academy! I will now focus on my other teaching appointments and consulting. I'm very thankful to Damian, Vince, and the rest of the staff for my time at AoPS.
Bill Ngo and Eric Smith have joined my consulting team for a year-long internship, which they completed in May 2021.

I was one of the 27 educators from around the world selected to attend the Religious Literacy Summer Institute for Educators at Harvard University.

Joseph Leach has joined my consulting team for a year-long internship which he completed in January 2020.

I gave a guest lecture at the University of North Georgia. My seminar was titled "Improving stormwater quality with Best Management Practices"