Rena F. Hale, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral fellow) earned her Bachelor of Science in engineering from LeTourneau University in 2011. The following year, she received a Master of Science in engineering from LeTourneau University. She was the first female to receive a Master of Science in engineering from LeTourneau University. In 2016, she received her doctorate in biomedical engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso, and immediately began researching as a postdoctoral fellow in the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory at Mayo Clinic.