{"id":2291,"date":"2020-02-14T16:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T00:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/?page_id=2291"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:23:37","slug":"steven-santana-research-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/undergraduate-research-experiences\/steven-santana-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Santana Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/02\/ENGpresentations-Santana-Researchers-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/02\/ENGpresentations-Santana-Researchers-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/02\/ENGpresentations-Santana-Researchers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/02\/ENGpresentations-Santana-Researchers-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/02\/ENGpresentations-Santana-Researchers-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/02\/ENGpresentations-Santana-Researchers-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steven Santana \u2019<\/strong><strong>06<\/strong> (engineering\/Spanish) assistant professor, joins the faculty after his 2018\u20132019 visiting position at HMC. He earned his master\u2019s in education from Loyola Marymount University and his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. As a doctoral researcher, he examined the use of microfluidics to isolate and study cancer biomarkers and design microfluidic devices for this purpose. At Harvey Mudd, Santana designed and taught a new course on microfluidics and nanofluidics and has established a microfluidics research program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Santana \u201906 (engineering\/Spanish) assistant professor, joins the faculty after his 2018\u20132019 visiting position at HMC. He earned his master\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions\/3706"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}