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Engineering’s Gary Wnek’s curiosity sends him in wide-ranging directions
Gary Wnek is always thinking about developing materials to address problems—from enhancing fire-retardant coatings to protecting older people from the devastating consequences of falls. His broad interests stem from a desire to tackle research areas early. “I’m not a bandwagon person,” said…
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May 21, 2013
The 2013 MACRO Frontiers conference will be held June 6-8, in Hovorka Atrium at ӰƵ. The conference is open to all faculty, staff and students, especially those interested in engineering, chemistry, biology and medicine.
At the conference, attendees can explore the front...
May 21, 2013
Some prostate cancer patients unnecessarily undergo surgery or harsh treatments because science fails to identify the differences between slow-growing and aggressive forms of the disease. Researchers at ӰƵ and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are developing te...
May 17, 2013
Jing Li, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, recently gave a keynote speech at Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO), which was held May 14-16 on the Carnegie Mellon campus, co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsb...
May 06, 2013
A team of ӰƵ students is pushing Jell-O as brain food—to teach middle schoolers about engineering.
For their efforts, the team won the Biomaterials Education Challenge and $2,500 prize at the Society of Biomaterials’ national meeting in April.
Jell-O may be the nation’...
May 06, 2013
Fourth-year engineering student Alan Filer has won a Fulbright scholarship to travel to South Korea in the fall. There, he’ll explore ways to make cheaper and cleaner alternatives to costly and toxic materials used in solar panels.
Filer, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in materials scie...
April 30, 2013
Tina He, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) mentored by Professor Philip Feng, won the Best Student Paper competition at the 8th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered & Molecular S...
April 09, 2013
Led by scientists at ӰƵ, researchers have turned to an unlikely model to make medical devices safer and more comfortable: a squid’s beak.
Many medical implants require hard materials that have to connect to or pass through soft body tissue. This mechanical mismatch lead...
April 07, 2013
Vaccinations are critical to good health, but to be effective, the vaccines must be refrigerated. In developing countries with little access to electricity to keep the vaccines cold or automobiles to quickly transport them, simply getting vaccines to individuals in need can be a major challenge. Tha...
March 21, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report
ӰƵ and partners have won funding to develop new ways to repair and alter costly manufacturing tools using three-dimensional printing technology.
In addition, Carnegie Mellon University and ӰƵ are...
March 17, 2013
A new method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could provide early identification of specific cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and other maladies, researchers at ӰƵ and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center write in the journal Nature.
Each body tiss...