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Feb 03, 2021
Gallaway Receives NSF CAREER Award for Safe and Inexpensive Batteries for the Electrical Grid
DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway, chemical engineering, was awarded a $400K NSF CAREER award for “Engineering electrochemical reversibility in disordered materials for high energy density batteries.”
Jan 29, 2021
Modeling Effective Network Disruptions for Human Trafficking
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass is a co-principal investigator on a five-year collaborative $1M NSF grant titled “Modeling Effective Network Disruptions for Human Trafficking.”
Jan 27, 2021
Cassella Receives NSF CAREER Award to Exchange Massive Data in Crowded in Noisy Mediums
Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella, electrical and computer engineering, received a $409K NSF CAREER award for “Giant Tunability through Piezoelectric Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials for Radio Frequency Adaptive Integrated Electronics”.
Jan 27, 2021
Understanding the Most Dangerous Aspects of COVID-19
BioE Professor and Chair Lee Makowski published a perspective article in the journal Virus titled, “Biological and Clinical Consequences of Integrin Binding via a Rogue RGD Motif in the SARS CoV-2 Spike Protein,” which explains the most dangerous aspects of COVID-19.
Jan 26, 2021
Kokar Receives $1.2M DARPA Award
ECE Professor Mieczyslaw Kokar received a $1.2M award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) to work on the Intent-Defined Adaptive Software (IDAS) program.
Jan 19, 2021
Woolston Received the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston is the 2020 recipient of the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering within the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES).
Jan 14, 2021
Ruberti Awarded Patent for Mechanochemical Collagen Assembly
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti was awarded a patent for designing a “Mechanochemical collagen assembly.”
Jan 11, 2021
Student Zach Rogers wins Second Alpha Fund Prototype Grant
Zach Rogers, a Chemical Engineering PhD student in the Bencherif Lab, was recently awarded the Alpha Fund Prototype Grant for his proposal, “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels for two-dimensional cell culture”.