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Jun 27, 2023
$2M NIH/NHGRI Grant To Develop a Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer Based on Engineered High-Resolution Nanopores
Meni Wanunu, associate professor of physics and bioengineering affiliated faculty member, received a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for “Asymmetric Single-Chain MspA Nanopores for Electroosmotic Stretching and Sequencing Proteins”.
Jun 26, 2023
Explainable Anomaly Detection
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received a $540,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant to address video anomaly detection through deep learning and perturbation techniques.
Jun 15, 2023
Indonesia Is Building a New Capital. Will It be a Model Amid Climate Change?
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar emphasize the importance of water management, sustainability, and potential challenges regarding the construction of Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara.
Jun 12, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Understanding Cell-Fate Transitions for Tumor Development
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Brown University and MD Anderson Cancer Center, is leading a $1.2 million NSF grant for determining the “Regulation of Cellular Stemness During the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).”
Jun 12, 2023
Why Comics and Graphic Novels Like ‘Maus’ Are Effective Teaching Tools
ChE Teaching Professor Luke Landherr creates STEM comics that effectively engage students and improve their understanding of complex concepts.
Jun 12, 2023
Advancing Distributed Optimization for Non-Convex Problems
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour received a $500,000 NSF grant, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, to address “Consensus and Distributed Optimization in Non-Convex Environments with Applications to Networked Machine Learning.” The project will transform the understanding of consensus and coordination in non-convex environments, and will include educational components to introduce distributed optimization as a practical tool for the next generation of engineers.
Jun 06, 2023
Traveling the World To Connect Biology, Computing, and Data
Andrea Chávez Muñoz, E’24, bioengineering, is focusing her future on computational bioengineering, with co-op and internship experiences everywhere from Boston to Switzerland to her home in Lima, Peru.
Jun 05, 2023
Team Makes Electronic Skin That Can Sense Touch
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was featured in the TechXplore article “Team Makes Electronic Skin That Can Sense Touch.”