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Feb 19, 2014
Want your computer to go faster? Just add light
Every second, your computer must process billions of computational steps to produce even the simplest outputs. Imagine if every one of those steps could be made just a tiny bit […]
Feb 18, 2014
Congratulations PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan
ECE PhD candidate Tianxiang Nan has been selected as one of the five finalists for the Best Student Presentation Award of IEEE Magnetics Conference (Intermag) 2014 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations!
Feb 14, 2014
Take 5: Questions of the heart
From studying the physics of a heartbeat to designing new cardiac disease detection methods, these five researchers have the heart on the brain. 1. Drop a beat To Thomas Webster, professor and […]
Feb 13, 2014
Rebecca Carrier advances drug delivery
Rebecca Carrier, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Scientists and doctors have long known that food digestion affects the way the body absorbs not just nutrients, but also drugs. Fat molecules, […]
Feb 12, 2014
West Awarded DNI Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded an $100K Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society. Dr. West/s main research focuses are catalysis, modeling and simlulation.
Feb 07, 2014
Bold Design Concepts
The designs for the new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building were featured in ASCE’s Civil Engineering magazine.
Feb 07, 2014
Reconfigurable RF systems
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $524K DARPA grant to develop high level intrinsically switchable and programmable MEMS filter arrays. This proposal seeks the development of an intrinsically switchable […]
Jan 31, 2014
Nanowire into Nanocircuit
Sivasubramanian Somu (MIE), Ahmed Busnaina (MIE), Nicol McGruer (ECE), & George Adams (MIE) were awarded a patent for their method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit. The nano-electromechanical […]