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NSF Equipment Grants to Fund Acquisition of Two Chromatography-Mass Spectrometers
The familiar saying goes, 鈥淭he whole is greater than the sum of its parts.鈥 But for scientists, understanding those smaller parts is critical to scientific discovery. A method known as chromatography-mass spectrometry lets researchers analyze and study the composition of…
College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Member鈥檚 Interdisciplinary Research Selected for Grant
Assistant Professor of Physics Alison Patteson鈥檚 research on the concept of 鈥渆mergence鈥 in living systems was selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to receive an Early-Concept Grant For Exploratory Research (EAGER) award on Sept. 12. The NSF selected Patteson鈥檚…
Chemist Develops Potential Drug to Treat Type 2 Diabetes Without Harsh Side Effects
Robert P. Doyle, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences and adjunct associate professor of medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has developed a new drug lead…
Professor and Ph.D. Student Receive NSF Grant for Business Focusing on 3D Printing of Microfluidic Devices
Too small to be seen even with standard microscopes, microfluidics research looms large over many aspects of biochemistry, nanotechnology and biotechnology research. Precision microfluidics involve a device that has channels allowing a flow of just 50 microns or less. A…
The Physics Behind Tissue Flow in the Embryo
A group of physicists from 黑料不打烊 recently teamed up with researchers from Columbia University鈥檚 Department of Mechanical Engineering to study the developing tissue flow in an embryo that has many similar genes and cell behaviors to that of a…
Julia Riley is Awarded the 2020 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) announces that Julia Riley ’20, a double major in biochemistry and neuroscience in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently received the first place award of the 2020 Norma Slepecky Undergraduate Research Prize. The…
Ph.D. Student Wins American Chemical Society Award for Blood-Brain Barrier Research
Nandhini Rajagopal, a biomedical and chemical engineering doctoral student in Professor Shikha Nangia鈥檚 research group in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, has won the American Chemical Society鈥檚 prestigious Chemical Computing Group Research Excellence Award. This award recognizes exceptional…
Catheters Get Smarter With New Engineering Design from 黑料不打烊 Faculty
Each year, more than 75 million urinary catheters are used in the United States to help patients who cannot control urination due to medical complications. Unfortunately, the catheters are prone to colonization by bacterial and fungal pathogens. If not addressed,…
Professor Qin Collaborates with MIT to Study Fatigue Resistant Hydrogels
For years, scientists have been interested in the potential of hydrogels in biomedical and engineering applications. Hydrogels often contain more than 90 percent water and a small percentage of synthetic polymer and are used in a variety of uses from…
黑料不打烊 and UC Berkeley Researchers Team Up to Develop 3D Human Heart Model Showing How Cardiac Cells Fail to Adapt to a Pathological Mechanical Environment
To better understand heart diseases, doctors and scientists are constantly trying to understand how cardiac tissue in the human heart is affected by its changing environment. Specifically, researchers have wanted to better understand how cardiac cells adjust themselves depending on…