 Megan C. Frost joins the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor. She comes to Michigan Tech from the University of Michigan.
Frost holds a PhD in Chemistry with a Cellular Biotechnology Certificate from the University of Michigan. She also holds an MS in Analytical Chemistry and a BS in Chemistry from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame.
She has taught Quantitative Analysis and General Chemistry at the University of Michigan. She has also coordinated a departmental seminar series, Chemical Sciences at the Interface of Education.
Frost’s research work includes development of nitric oxide releasing biomedical devices with improved biocompatibility, improving the biocompatibility of hydrophobic polymers via nitric oxide release and improving the performance of planar chromatography,
Frost has been published in numerous works including Analytical Chemistry, the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Biomaterials, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Chromatography and the Journal of Planar Chromatography.
Frost is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Society for Biomaterials and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.
 Martyn Smith joined the Depart ment of Biomedical Engineering as a part-time adjunct professor in 2005 in addition to serving as the director of distance learning and summer programs. Dr.Smith has been a member of the Michigan Tech faculty in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, serving six years as head of that department. He also was a professor in the Department of Math ematics and Statistics at Winona State University in Minnesota and a member of the faculty of the Mayo School of Health Related Sciences in Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to joining the BME department he was interim dean of the Michigan Tech Graduate School. He has a master’s degree and PhD from Yale and a bachelor’s degree from Montclair State in New Jersey. Dr.Smith has three daughters and lives in Houghton with his wife, Diane, youngest daughter Anna, and their dog, Laika. For the last two summers he has overseen the building of the biomedical engineering cardboard boats for Bridgefest.
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