News
Apr 02, 2018
Four COE Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Minhal Ahmed, BioE’19, Kritika Singh, BioE’20, Elizabeth Wig, EE’20, and Isaac Kresse, S/CompE’19, were awarded the 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the United States’ premier award for outstanding young researchers in STEM fields.
Mar 29, 2018
Studying How Dissolved Organic Carbon is Effecting Climate Change
COS/CEE Associate Professor Aron Stubbins is studying how carbon moves off the land, such as in frozen permafrost, and into rivers, where it eventually gets converted into carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas that’s causing global warming.
Mar 29, 2018
Leeser Selected as Fulbright Fellow
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser was selected for a Fulbright award at Maynooth University and the CONNECT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland to study wireless and networking technology with applications to Internet of Things (IoT), wireless networking, cognitive radio, software defined radio and software defined networking.
Mar 28, 2018
Minus Awarded $1.25M AFOSR Grant
MIE Associate Professor Marilyn Minus was awarded a five-year $1.25M Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant for “Forming True Blends: Developing New Processing Routes for Polymer-Based Nano-Composites.”
Mar 28, 2018
Novel Synthetic Biology Technique Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Disease Treatment
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag developed a new technique that would give researchers the ability to control the behavior of engineered cells.
Mar 27, 2018
Chowdhury Awarded an IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury’s team was awarded an IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for his paper on “WiFED: WiFi Friendly Energy Delivery with Distributed Beamforming” which will be presented at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.
Mar 27, 2018
Engineering Alumnus Revolutionizes Ice Skate Sharpening
MIE Alum Russell Layton, E’98, created the company Sparx and developed an at-home sharpening system for ice skates that is now used by thousands of hockey players in the U.S. […]
Mar 26, 2018
PhD Student Selected to Speak at Global Health & Innovation Conference
BioE PhD student Solomon Mensah and CEO of Therapeutic Innovation was selected through a competitive process to present his Social Impact Pitch on “Re-Examining the Design of the Neonatal Bubble-CPAP for Application in the Developing World” at the 15th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference.