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Aug 26, 2022
Moderna Sues Pfizer and BioNTech over COVID Vaccine Patents
“We’re seeing a lot of lawsuits related to mRNA vaccines right now, so I wasn’t surprised about this particular lawsuit,” said Mansoor Amiji, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences and chemical […]
Aug 25, 2022
Liu Selected as SPIE Senior Member
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as a senior member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Aug 25, 2022
Addressing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues
MIE Associate Professor Jacqueline Griffin, ECE Professor David Kaeli, MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun, and affiliate faculty members Stacy Marsella and Casper Harteveld were awarded a $750k NSF grant for “Designing an Improved Information Infrastructure for Better Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains.”
Aug 25, 2022
Ensuring Safe Supply to Drinking Water
CEE Associate Professor Ryan Qi Wang, Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper, and CSSH Professor Daniel Aldrich, in collaboration with the University of Virginia, are leading a $750k NSF grant for “Dynamical Coupling of Physical and Social Infrastructures: Evaluating the Impacts of Social Capital on Access to Safe Well Water.”
Aug 22, 2022
Determining Human Movements After Large Scale Events
CEE Associate Professor Ryan Qi Wang, in collaboration with researchers from RPI and Columbia University, published the paper “A spatiotemporal decay model of human mobility when facing large-scale crises” in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Aug 22, 2022
This Technology Makes Data Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in the NPR podcast “This Technology Makes Data Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People.”
Aug 18, 2022
Lin Wins U.S. DOT Inclusive Design Challenge Stage II
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, together with Prof. Nicholas Giudice and Prof. Richard Corey at U Maine, and Prof. Stacy Doore at Colby College, became a Finalist Awardee and […]
Aug 18, 2022
Ultra-low Power Distributed Beamforming to Harvest Indoor RF Energy
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “High Efficiency Distributed Beamforming RF Energy Transfer using a Closed-loop Energy Receiver.”