when Rasmussen was in graduate school. That experience fueled her ambition to develop better prosthetics, and she has devoted her life to doing just that.
"Rasmussen holds a Phd in chemistry, specialty polymer chemistry, from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in biology, specialty biophysics, from Purdue University.
increasing energy efficiency and making energy environmentally benign and sustainable,"said Fanglin (Frank) Chen, a chemical engineering professor at the University of South carolina."
a professor at Clemson University and co-author of the work.""The CFO reacts with the excess Gd present in the grain boundary of GDC to form a third phase.
electronics and the environment,"said Michael L. Cherry, chair and professor, LSU Department of physics and Astronomy."
"Professor Stadler's magnetocaloric materials program is an example of this research that appears to be directly relevant to energy development and Louisiana's economy.
It also provides excellent training opportunities for Louisiana's students.""In this new technology, a magnetic field magnetically orders the material at ambient temperature,
"says Tejas Kulkarni, an MIT graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences and first author on the new paper."
"Joining Kulkarni on the paper are his adviser, professor of brain and cognitive sciences Josh Tenenbaum;
like the MIT graduate student Larry Roberts, argued that deducing objects'three-dimensional shapes from visual information was simply the same problem in reverse.
"Using learning to improve inference will be task-specific, but probabilistic programming may alleviate rewriting code across different problems,
if the learning machinery is powerful enough to learn different strategies for different tasks.""""Picture provides a general framework that aims to solve nearly all tasks in computer vision,
Agah and his graduate students Muhammad Akbar (Islamabad, Pakistan), and Dr. Hamza Shakeel (Rawalpindi, Pakistan), developed a unique gas chromatography-on-chip module."
#Lab team develops hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvester A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
Professor Lee said, "This exciting approach introduces an ultra-stretchable piezoelectric generator. It can open avenues for power supplies in universal wearable and biomedical applications as well as self-powered ultra-stretchable electronics."
Professor Cait Macphee, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy said:"
To address this need, Xunjia Cheng and Guodong Sui, both professors at Fudan University, sought to develop a device better suited for the field.
In a research paper published in the Journal of Cell biology, Alessandro Vindigni, Ph d.,professor in the Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology at Saint louis University
said Ryszard Stroynowski, a collaborator on one of the collider's key experiments and a professor in the Department of physics at Southern Methodist University,
the physics professor who leads the SMU data-link team.""Failure of any transmitter results in the loss of a chunk of valuable data.
expensive business,"explains Professor Jamshed Anwar, from Lancaster University's Chemistry department.""Crystal'seeds'(very small crystals) are added to the process to act as a'template'to ensure more of the same shape
Professor Anwar and his colleagues, Dr Shahzeb Khan, of Malakand University, Pakistan, and Professor Lennart Lindfors, of Astrazeneca, Sweden, have mapped out'in diagram format the actual movements made by chemical molecules on their breeding journey using computer simulations.
The simulations rely on understanding the'forces'between the atoms from which they compute what the molecules do,
"adds Professor Anwar.""It means that one can intervene in the crystallisation process and actually engineer the shape,
"says Professor Anwar. Current ideas are that molecules of one of the mirror images came together and led to a chance formation of a mirror crystal which, subsequently, induced massive crystallisation of the same image."
and given rise to thousands of new crystals of the same image,"adds Professor Anwar A
T. C. Chang Professor of Computer science at Columbia Engineering, has invented a prototype video camera that is the first to be fully self-poweredt can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene.
and could lead to better treatments for diseases such as for osteoporosis. BBSRC-funded research by Professor Stefan Przyborski
"A continuous accumulation of micro-cracking (that leads to a softening of the material) can be used as a metric for material degradation assessment."
out of the 72 loading paths we applied, an MIT student"based one dissertation out of one of these paths."
Professor Shu Kobayashi's group at the Graduate school of Science has developed highly active immobilized catalysts (heterogeneous catalysts)
Professor Kobayashi's application of flow chemistry techniques to the production of fine chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts has resulted in simple method to synthesize (R)
Professor Kobayashi says"This new technology can be applied to not only other gamma aminobutyric-acids acids and medicines but also various chemicals such as flavors, agricultural chemicals,
#Oil spill leaves half million Mexicans without water The city of Villahermosa in Tabasco state closed schools on Wednesday to protect the health of students following the incident.
Zhuang credits a talented interdisciplinary team graduate student Kok Hao Chen and postdoctoral researchers Alistair Boettiger, Jeffrey Moffitt,
It allows students in Mexico and Essex to collaborate on live science and engineering work using online mixed-reality environments.
Phd student Anasol Pena Rios, who is leading the project, said:""It was a real challenge to get the synchronisation right so we could accurately blend the real and virtual realities.
"Project supervisor Professor Vic Callaghan added:""This technology has the potential to significantly change in a positive way the future of our lifestyles,
which has thousands of Mexican students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in almost 300 locations across Mexico.
"said lead author Ricardo Ramirez-Gonzalez, Phd student at TGAC.""Polymarker has demonstrated already its value having been developed
Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of a paper in the July 27 issue of Nature Materials that describes the application
a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study. his is a very smart approach.
The paper other authors include Andrew Bellinger, Dean Glettig, Ross Barman, Young-Ah Lee, Cody Cleveland, Veronica Montgomery,
the John D. Macarthur Professor of Physics at MIT. e use ultracold atoms to map out
Ketterle team members include graduate students Colin Kennedy, William Cody Burton, and Woo Chang Chung. A superfluid with loops The team first used a combination of laser cooling and evaporative cooling methods,
and James Fox all professors of biological engineering at MIT had identified the presence of a lesion,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
the researchers predict that accumulation of the lesions would increase the mutation rate of a cell up to 30-fold,
or anode, are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT professor Ju Li and six others.
says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering, who has a joint appointment in MIT Department of Materials science and engineering. e came up with the method serendipitously,
an amiable professor stationed at POSTECH speaks in rapid bursts when detailing the experiment, e transferred electrons from the dopant potassium to the surface of the black phosphorus,
Professor Kim explained, raphene is a Dirac semimetal. It more efficient in its natural state than black phosphorus but it difficult to open its band gap;
said Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard Chan School and one of the senior authors of the study,
and Jeffrey M. Drazen, a pulmonologist and professor in the department, who studies echanotransductionin asthma how the bronchial constriction of asthma might trigger cell changes in the epithelium.
The team also included MIT graduate student William Richards and postdoc Jae Chul Kim; Shyue Ping Ong at the University of California at San diego;
says Keith Schwab, a Caltech professor of applied physics, who led the study. ut we know that even at the quantum ground state, at zero-temperature, very small amplitude fluctuationsr noiseemain.
Schwab says. n the 1970s, Kip Thorne Caltech Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical physics, Emeritus and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic,
and Marquardt, other coauthors include former graduate student Emma E. Wollman (Phd 5); graduate students Chan U. Lei and Ari J. Weinstein;
former postdoctoral scholar Junho Suh; and Andreas Kronwald of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany.
Yu Horie was supported by the Department of energy Energy Frontier Research center program and a Japan Student Services Organization fellowship.
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. fter this write happens,
the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science realized was that the physical-time order of distributed computations doesn really matter,
a core faculty member at Harvard Wyss Institute, has developed now a strategy that has improved experimentally bone repair by boosting the survival rate of transplanted stem cells
In addition to Mooney, the team included Georg Duda, a Wyss associate faculty member and director of the Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration at Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin,
Mooney is also the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences.
a graduate student who worked with Mooney and who is the study first author. ased on our experience with mechanosensitive stem cells,
a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a member of UCLA California Nanosystems Institute, is published September 21 in the online edition of the journal Nature Materials.
says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich, described this experiment as an legant proof of conceptthat could lead to greatly improved treatments for viral infection. entinel designer cells engineered with the DNA sense
the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical engineering. anoparticles are large enough to keep from going through the skin surface,
said co-author Michael Girardi, a professor of dermatology at Yale Medical school. n fact, the indirect damage was worse
Researchers at the Department of Connectomics are already working on increasing the number of participants by developing a platform where also non-qualified personnel (e g. students) can assist in the analysis of the connections between the neurons.
The research group already recruited large populations of students to help determine the connectome of a part of the mouse retina
thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
Professor Gilbert explained. ithin 45 days, the cones that we allowed to grow towards confluence spontaneously formed organized retinal tissue that was 150 microns thick.
Beyond the clinical applications, Professor Bernier findings could enable the modelling of human retinal degenerative diseases through the use of induced pluripotent stem cells,
Pedro del Nido, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston Children Hospital, the William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery at Harvard Medical school,
said Conor Walsh, a contributing author of the study, a Wyss Institute core faculty member, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering AT SEAS,
UCLA professor Yang Yang, member of the California Nanosystems Institute, is renowned a world innovator of solar cell technology
Postdoctoral scholar Jingbi You and graduate student Lei Meng from the Yang Lab were the lead authors on the paper. here has been much optimism about perovskite solar cell technology,
and other processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate student Jeremy Cho,
and recent graduate Jordan Mizerak 4, published in the journal Nature Communications. This degree of control over the boiling process, independent of temperature, Wang says,
says Satish Kandlikar, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Rochester Institute of technology, who was involved not in this research. uch control strategies will dramatically alter the heat transfer paradigm in many applications,
said Polina Golland, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and leader of the project,
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, managed to create a fairly accurate digital 3-D model of each patient heart in just an hour.
said Vanderbilt University doctoral student Wei Li, in a press release. ortable detectors could be used to determine drug chirality in hospitals
said Mubarak Shah, computer science professor and director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Central Florida, in a press release.
#Apple Patents Learning Computer Vision For Gesture Control Apple has a new patent (via Appleinsider) for 3d gesture control,
are shaking out into increased opportunities for edtech startups in the U k. Making learning to code accessible,
So a sort of learning ite ode Kingdom is a game that teaches kids how to code
since youe inevitably competing in that same ntertainment space Using a game and game mechanics as a wrapper for teaching coding also brings native stickiness to the learning experience,
or for how adults perceive kids to be learning nothing really designed to make it really fun for kids,
so they get excited about learning to code computer science, and then hopefully go on because theye excited to actually explore it as a career,
the UCLA professor involved in the project. urrently, imaging single DNA molecules requires bulky, expensive optical microscopy tools,
Eyewire executive director, Amy Robinson, tells me its users are igh school students, grandmothers, tugboat drivers, animators, everything.
Furthermore, the Voxiebox could be used in classrooms, allowing children to manipulate, for instance, a blood cell in biology classes without being exposed to dangerous materials.
The research is a combination of work from a student on fellowship at NASA from the University of Michigan and nearly a decade and a half of study on self-healing materials for both aircrafts and spacecrafts.
said Yiying Wu, professor at Ohio State. The solar panel is a solid sheet, rather than a mesh as in the previous design.
lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State. The new solid solar panel is called a dye-sensitised solar cell,
said Yiying Wu, professor at Ohio State. The solar panel is a solid sheet, rather than a mesh as in the previous design.
lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State. The new solid solar panel is called a dye-sensitised solar cell,
but also the safest way to prevent fatal liver failure by cell transplantation,"lead researcher professor Michael Karin from University of California, San diego (UCSD) School of medicine.
"said principal investigator Juha Kere, professor at the Karolinska Institutet. The researchers had to develop a new way of analysing the results
"Our results provide novel insights into the regulation of early embryonic development in human,"added Outi Hovatta, professor at Karolinska Institutet's department of clinical science, intervention and technology.
and show that such humanoid robots represent a potential solution for the accumulation and transfer of knowledge.
In a roundtable discussion on his recent breakthroughs and the future of synthetic photosynthesis, Peidong Yang, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley said his hybrid inorganic/biological systems give researchers new tools
"said Thomas moore, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State university. Ultimately, researchers hope to create an entirely synthetic system that is more robust and efficient than its natural counterpart.
or literally,"said Ted Sargent, the vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Applied science and Engineering at University of Toronto."
"Instead, it is about learning nature's guidelines, its rules on how to make a compellingly efficient and selective catalyst,
Lee Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg who led the work,
Jennifer Doudna, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, led one of the research groups.
Another pioneer is Prashant Mali, professor at University of California, San diego. Born in Rajasthan and educated at IIT-B, John Hopkins and Harvard,
"said Martin Yarmush, professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. Until now, animal research on central nervous system disorders, such as spinal cord injury and Parkinson's disease, has been limited
"said corresponding author Joseph Merola, a professor at the Virginia Institute of technology.""One of the reasons for this is that the compounds in this paper that target MRSA are very specific,
and their metabolism in animals,"said Joseph Falkinham, a professor of microbiology in the College of Science and an affiliate of the Virginia Tech Centre for Drug Discovery.
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
"said senior author Holger Schmidt, professor of Optoelectronics at University of California, Santa cruz.""We're detecting the nucleic acids directly,
"said Alfred S Mcewen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Lujendra Ojha, a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of technology, turned to another instrument on the orbiter that identifies types of molecules by
a professor of civil and environmental engineering who supervises plastics research by Wu and others at Stanford."
a professor of civil and environmental engineering who supervises plastics research by Wu and others at Stanford."
said senior author Mark Greene, professor at Perelman School of medicine. This one-two punch renders the tumours highly sensitive to chemotherapy,
Cubesats also allow an inexpensive means to engage students in all phases of satellite development, operation and exploitation through real-world, hands-on research and development experience.
particularly in a pair of networks previously implicated in learning and developmental problems. These brain circuit abnormalities likely contribute to problems that materialize as the children get older,
Devesh Mistry, a postgraduate research student in the School of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Leeds is working with liquid crystal to create a truly adjustable artificial lens."
"said one of the researchers Sriram Subramanian, professor of informatics at University of Sussex in England."
But here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved,"Bruce Drinkwater, professor of ultrasonics at University of Bristol in Britain, pointed out t
"Monash Dean of Engineering Frieder Seible told AAP. Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Victorian MP Anna Burke toured the lab on Friday, spruiking Labor's aspirational 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030 target."
Professor Seible said the new cells could be publicly available in just a few years with government support.
Professor Zhang Ke and doctor Cai Hong went to Sweden for an academic meeting and encountered a metal 3d printer.
The new research, led by Professor Jennifer A. Lewis, instead uses active mixing and fast-switching nozzles, allowing for the printing of concentrated viscoelastic inks and the simultaneous control of composition and geometry during printing.
Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty member at the Ywss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
explains Chiara Daraio, professor of mechanics and materials at ETH Zurich and one half of the research team behind the project.
mechanical engineering professor Robert Shepherd. The 3d printed heart, made from elastomeric foam, can pump fluid at a higher volume
Created by Mihri Ozkan, electrical engineering professor at UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, Cengiz Ozkan, her husband and fellow engineering professor, Daisy Patino,
Dr. Frank Liou and Dr. Jagannanthan Sarangapani, distinguished professors in Product Innovation and Creativity, and Electrical and Computer engineering, respectively, have been working towards using cyber additive manufacturing technology
The MIT professor and founder of the Mediated Matter design research group at MIT Media Lab has rightfully been enjoying a celebrity-like status in the 3d printing industry.
The next step for the professor was to introduce living matter. e live in a special time, alongside the latest advances in computational design, materials engineering, synthetic biology, and additive manufacturing
Imagining exactly how those microorganisms might aid us is a job for designers and artists such as Professor Oxman, with
ent beyond the boundaries of our existing technology, formulating a dedicated improved support structure to allow a smooth, effective process in support of Professor Oxman vision.
Experiments such as this and previous ones carried out by Professor Oxman which include the Gemini lounge chair
The kidney model can then be used to train med-students plan surgeries, or practice procedures before operation.
it will flatten the learning curve. o me, what these technologies represent, in addition to the future of surgery planning,
Two professors of nanoengineering from the University of California San diego are utilizing advanced 3d printing technology to produce icrofish fish-shaped microrobotic devices geared towards traveling
The leaders of this project, Professors Shoachen Chen and Joseph Wang, recognized that most microrobots that have already been produced are unable to perform more advanced tasks due to their simply-shaped designs and inorganic physical make-ups.
and mechanical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, said of the study, his represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries.
The professor says, he exciting next step would be to implant these guides in humans rather than rats.
Besides offering workshops and trainings the classroom it will also serve as a reference for those interested in implementing an innovation center themselves.
The very first class was held the day after the opening for students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
and creator of 3d printed parametric art, will contribute to the classes with his own experience as well as through exercises from the Makerbot in the classroom handbook.
Some feel learning about 3d printing could be useless since 3d printing, as we know it today,
The material was produced by UC Riverside electrical engineering professor Mihri Ozkan along with the help of her husband/fellow engineering professor Cengiz Ozkan and a couple of former and current Ph d students.
The team calls this material ponge a reusable material derived from heated sucrose, which is a form of sugar has a highly porous structure that is simultaneously water-repellant and pollutant-absorbent.
This 2004 story from ABC-TV's Catalyst program looked at the research of Professor Veena Sahajwalla of the University of NSW
or cushioning material in playgrounds. Together with technology partner One Steel Veena's team perfected the technique of'polymer injection'for electric arc furnaces.
"says Professor Marc Tennant of the University of Western australia, who worked for 20 years in public health dentistry."
Tennant and colleagues, including graduate student Abed Anjrini, previously found 527 per 100,000 Australians were admitted to hospital for impacted wisdom teeth removal in 2008/09--a rate seven times higher than in the UK
said Xiang Zhang, director of the Materials sciences Division of the US Department of energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley."
"said study lead author Professor Xingjie Ni of Penn State university. The researchers said they overcame two drawbacks of previous experimental microscopic cloaks that were bulkier and harder to"scale up,
Professor of Ultrasonics at the University of Bristol, said while other groups had levitated successfully objects,
However, Professor Drinkwater and colleagues managed to move the tiny objects-less than one millimetre in size-using a single-sided array of loudspeakers.
Professor Drinkwater said. He said their new study built on the work of researchers at the University of Dundee.
Success lies in'brute-force inversion'Ironically, Professor Drinkwater said the team's success lay in the absence of a mathematician amongst them."
Professor Drinkwater said the successful sound wave configurations had interesting characteristics.""The successful ones were all either tweezer,
and other new potentials Professor Drinkwater said the importance of developing a single-sided device was expanded that it the potential of the technology
"Professor Drinkwater said the development could also lead to"non-contact production lines"for handling delicate or dangerous materials without contact.
professor of electrical engineering at the IISC and leader of the team that developed the new method. his pre-screening tool can detect glaucoma with 90 percent accuracy,
NTU Professor Joseph Chang, who is involved in the design and construction of the prototype, said,
Professor Leslie Yeo, Director of RMIT University Micronanophysics Research Laboratory, said the Respite technology had the potential to revolutionize how patients were treated with drugs
In the Labasianscientist (Oct 13, 2015)- A team of scientists from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school Singapore (Duke-NUS) and the University of Michigan at Ann arbor have discovered a molecular switch that regulates the body's circadian clock
and led by Professor David Virshup from Duke-NUS and Professor Daniel Forger from Michigan, the findings shed light on how PER2 regulates our circadian clock.
and Project Professor Katsushi Fujii from The University of Tokyo and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka from Miyazaki University have doubled now more than the solar conversion efficiency to 24.4 percent.
"Professor Molly Stevens, co-corresponding author from the Departments of Materials and of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said:"
"says Dr. Zheng, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret and also Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto.
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