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Aug 10, 2010
Monitoring Water Quality
Xioadan Ruan, a CEE PhD student under the direction of Associate Professor Ferdi Hellweger, has been testing bacteria levels in the Charles River in hopes that it will once again be swimmable.
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Jul 26, 2010
COE Alum Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Moira McSpadden, a ME ‘97 graduate in Information Systems, was selected to receive a Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship – considered the "Rhodes Scholarship" for teaching.
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Jul 21, 2010
Commercializing Nanotechnology
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a 5-yr $2M grant from the John Adams Innovation Institute to help commercialize their nanomanufacuring technologies for consumers.
Jul 19, 2010
Extracting the Cure from Flowers
ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons has received a $550K NSF grant to increase the production of highly-valued medicinal alkaloids from the Madagascar periwinkle plant.
Jul 15, 2010
Double Congratulations
Ismail Ilker Delice, a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, received the Best Presentation in Session Award at the recent American Control Conference as well as a $5K Ferretti Fellowship from the MIE Department for his outstanding academic standing.
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Jul 14, 2010
Creating a First Alert Helmet
Under the direction of Associate Professor Sinan Muftu, a team of MIE capstone students, developed a helmet that could measure the severity of head injuries after a fall and alert first responders to the significance of the damage.
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Jul 13, 2010
Studying Skill Acquisition
ECE Professor, Dagmar Sternad, has received a $324K NIH grant to discover the acquistion, adaptation, and control of skilled movements in order to restore sensorimotor function in neurological disorders.
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Jul 12, 2010
Niedre Awarded $1.3M Grant
ECE Assistant Professor, Mark Niedre, has received a $1.3M R01 grant from NIH to develop a new high-resolution fluorescence imaging system.