KAUSHIK RAJASHEKARA NAMED GLOBAL ENERGY PRIZE LAURATE
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The most coveted prize in the field of international energy — the Global Energy Prize bestowed by the Global Energy Association — was awarded to Distinguished ECE professor Kaushik Rajashekara, who historically helped bring electric cars to the marketplace. |
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Yashashree Kulkarni and Roberto Ballarini have been elected to the Fellow grade of membership for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Only about 3,000 members of ASME are Fellows, out of a total membership of about 75,000. |
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NEXT-GEN STROKE REHAB: ROBOT AT HOME
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Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal revealed the next generation of stroke rehabilitation: a robotic arm controlled by the user’s brainwaves to restore upper limb function. This device requires no surgery and can be used in the clinic and at home. |
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NASA GRANT SUPPORTS PROJECT TO ASSESS FLOOD RISKS
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Pietro Milillo will use a $675,000 grant from NASA to launch a new flood risk assessment project focusing on sandy beaches and dunes.
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BME RESEARCH FINDS DEEP NERVE STIMULATION CONSISTENTLY REDUCES BLOOD PRESSURE
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Mario Romero-Ortega and a team of researchers reported that his newly created and implantable nerve attachment microchannel electrode consistently induces an immediate and reproducible arterial depressor effect in response in electrical stimulation.
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PROGRESS ON EARLY DETECTION OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
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Tianfu Wu has developed a new probe for in-vivo detection of the protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. |
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3D PRINTING OF ‘ORGANIC ELECTRONICS’
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A research group led by Mohammad Reza Abidian has published a paper in Advanced Materials about the potential production of micro-scale organic electronics for use in bioelectronics via multiphoton 3-D printers. |
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INVESTING IN BRAIN RESEARCH AND NEUROENGINEERING
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The BRAIN Center is entering into Phase 2 of a funded grant by the NSF with $758,331, plus another $2 million from industry partners. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has also bestowed a workforce development grant for $768,135 for the center. |
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MANIPULATION OF COACERVATE DROPLETS WITH AN ELECTRIC FIELD
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New work led by Alamgir Karim and a team of researchers shows a simple pathway for stabilizing polyelectrolyte coacervate droplets that do not coalesce or deform under an electric field. The study was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). |
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Long Chang engraved thousands of names on tiny microchips that will soon launch into space on the Artemis I mission to honor the team behind NASA's return to the moon. |
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MAJOR ADVANCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
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Jiming Bao for the first time experimentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes, suggesting a major advance for next-generation electronics. |
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Cullen College doctoral candidate, Mina Moradnia, is a lead author for a new research paper from the group of Jae-Hyun Ryou, and was chosen for the cover of Crystal Growth & Design. |
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Season 2 of the STEMINIST podcast is now live! Listen to the latest episode hosted by Ph.D. engineering student Nicole Guinn. |
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