Winter 2005

Meneghini Receives National Orthopaedic Research Grant of $50,000

R. Michael Meneghini, C.E. 1995, was awarded a 2005 national Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) career development research grant of $50,000. It was one of only six awarded nationally and included individuals from Harvard, Sloan- Kettering and Cleveland Clinic. An orthopaedic surgeon, Meneghini will use the grant to fund his investigation of minimally invasive total hip replacement.

During the summer, Meneghini received the Mark Coventry Adult Reconstruction Fellowship Award as the outstanding hip and knee replacement fellow at Mayo Clinic.

Meneghini has joined the St. Vincent Center for Joint Replacement in Indianapolis.

“I have been fortunate to remain involved in the Rose-Hulman community over the past years when I was in Chicago and at the Mayo Clinic,” Meneghini said. “I have given lectures to the biomedical engineering classes and have multiple orthopeadic-related biomechanical engineering projects currently going on with the master’s students.”

Meneghini has worked and continues to work on collaborative projects with Rose-Hulman professors Christine Buckley and Phillip Cornwell.