News
Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Yi Zheng
Yi Zheng joins the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor.
Aug 27, 2019
Maass Awarded NSF Grant to Study Resource Allocation to Disrupt Human Trafficking Networks
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass is a co-principal investigator on a $535K NSF grant, titled, “ISN2: Disrupting Human Trafficking via Needs Matching and Capacity Expansion.”
Aug 27, 2019
Melodia Awarded Patent to Ultrasonically Transmit Data Through Tissue
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent to create an “Ultrasonic multiplexing network for implantable medical devices”.
Aug 27, 2019
Auguste Awarded Patent for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery
ChE Professor Debra Auguste was awarded a patent for “Cationic polymers as co-drugs for chemotherapeutic agents”. Abstract Source: USPTO A method for treating a biological cell is disclosed. The method […]
Aug 26, 2019
Padir Appointed an Editor for IEEE ICRA Robotics Research Conference
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir has been appointed an Editor for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation for a three-year term. ICRA 2020 is the IEEE Robotics and […]
Aug 26, 2019
Maass Receives NSF Award to Address Labor Trafficking in the Agricultural Sector
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Maass (PI), Shawn Bhimani (co-PI), Visiting Assistant Professor in D’Amore-McKim School of Business’s Supply Chain and Information Management Group, and Amy Farrell (co-PI), associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab, received a $574K grant from the NSF for “ISN2: Coordinated Interdiction for Disruption of Labor Trafficking in the Agricultural Sector.”
Aug 23, 2019
Levine Uses Theoretical Physics to Make Sense of Cancer
COS/BioE Professor Herbert Levine collaborates with cancer biologists to explore fundamental questions, such as how cancer spreads and why immunotherapies only work for certain patients.
Aug 23, 2019
Fang Awarded NSF Grant to Study Stretchable Silicon
The practical use for stretchable silicon might not seem immediately obvious to the average person, but Hui Fang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, says there are a number […]