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Less Painful, More Convenient Antibody Treatments A timed-release patch made of biodegradable polymer by a team led by Prof. Thanh Duc Nguyen could make antibody treatments more accessible and safer. Read more by following the link below: Categories: Research Spotlights |
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Prof. Wilson Chiu Elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society Prof. Wilson Chiu is a new member of the 2022 Class of the Electrochemical Society Fellows. For more information, read the ECS announcement by following the that follows below. Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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A quieter world through materials by design A new paper published in Applied Physics Letters co-authored by Prof. Osama Bilal and his PhD student introduces materials that can simultaneously block sound and vibrations at tunable frequencies by design. Categories: Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Recharging Cartilage After Knee Damage Through Tissue Regeneration By studying rabbits, Prof. Thanh Nguyen‘s group is using biodegradable piezoelectric film to aid in growth of new cartilage. Read the whole science highlight on the NIH’s website here: https://www.nibib.nih.gov/news-events/newsroom/recharging-cartilage-after-knee-damage Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Research, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Xinyu Zhao and Ying Li receive the prestigious NSF CAREER award Two ME professors received the 2020 National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, which is the Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. Prof. Xinyu Zhao’s 500k CAREER award focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of flame extinction, which plays a central role in promoting energy security, environmental sustainability, air-travel safety and opportune fire suppression. […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Prof. Nguyen’s Injection-free Microneedle Technology for Single-Administration of Vaccines
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Prof. Nguyen to Develop Self-Administered Microneedle COVID-19 Vaccine Technology Prof. Thanh Nguyen has received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA) to develop a single-use, self-administered microneedle vaccine technology for infectious diseases, including COVID-19. For more details, read the full story on UConn Today: Categories: Faculty News, News, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Machine Learning for Thermosetting Polymer Design: Prof. Ying Li’s new AFOSR Young Investigator Award Prof. Ying Li is in a selected small group of researchers that have received the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). His award will support de novo design of thermosetting polymers with deep reinforcement learning, and will provide new capabilities needed to avoid the traditionally used trial and […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty News, News, Research Spotlights |
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ME Graduate’s Cancer Treatment Startup Wins $500,000 Grant To Test Their Technology In Space Click on the title to read more. Categories: News, Research Spotlights, Student Spotlights |
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Thanh Nguyen named the ACell Young Investigator Faculty Award Winner Prof. Thanh Nguyen receives the highly regarded ACell Young Investigator Faculty Award at the 2020 Regenerative Medicine Workshop, which brings together leading experts from across the expansive field of regenerative medicine. Prof. Nguyen will deliver a keynote speech along with other world renowned researchers in the field of regenerative medicine during the event, which will […] Categories: Faculty News, Research Spotlights |
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Buzzing Through the Blood-Brain Barrier Prof. Thanh Nguyen’s research group has reported on the first biodegradable ultrasonic transducer that can help medication move from blood vessels into brain tissues and circumvent the body’s traditional defense mechanisms.The work is published in the journal of PNAS (Proceeding of National Academy of Science) (Dec 2019), and the two first authors of this paper […] Categories: Faculty News, News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Norato Receives ASME Young Investigator Award by Kassidy Manness ME Communications kassidy.manness@uconn.edu During the 45th Annual Design Automation Conference, held by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) this past summer, Mechanical Engineering Professor Julián Norato has been awarded the prestigious Design Automation Young Investigator Award. This award is given once each year “to recognize an outstanding young investigator who is […] Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research Spotlights |
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Fueling the Fire: Studying Flame Behavior to Improve Combustion Systems February 20, 2019 – Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research The power you feel underneath you when you’re on a plane as it takes off is tremendous. The physics that enable the remarkable feat of lifting a 175,000-pound midsize commercial aircraft into the sky and keeping it there are […] Categories: Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Chih-Jen (Jackie) Sung Named Combustion Institute Fellow By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering The UConn School of Engineering is proud to announce that Mechanical Engineering Professor Chih-Jen Sung has been recognized as one of the 2019 Class of Fellows for The Combustion Institute. Sung joins a class of 38 accomplished international scholars from industry, academia, and the public […] Categories: Faculty News, News, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Prof. Zhao’s new DoD Grant Aims to Better Understand Aeronautical Combustion Via UConn Today: Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Profs. Chen and Norato win coveted 2018 NSF CAREER awards for their work on Additive Manufacturing and Topology Optimization Two ME professors received the 2018 National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, which is the Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty. Prof. Xu Chen’s award will support his research on thermal modeling, sensing, and controls to enable new generations of powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing. In contrast to conventional machining, where parts […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, Research, Research Spotlights, Uncategorized |
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Biodegradable Sensor Monitors Pressure in the Body then Disappears More details about the research being developed in Prof. Thanh Nguyen’s research group can be found in UConn Today. Categories: Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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Prof. Zhao Awarded Air Force Young Investigator Program for Work on Turbulent Premixed Flames The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) has honored Professor Xinyu Zhao as one of just 43 scientists and engineers awarded YIP grants for her research project titled “Pockets in Highly Turbulent Premixed Flames: Physics and Implications on Modeling.” The grant is worth a total of $450,000 over three […] Categories: Department Achievements, Faculty and Staff Spotlights, Faculty News, News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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New Device for Testing Heart Health Dr. George Lykotrafitis and his student Kostyantyn Partola have been featured for their development of a device that tests blood viscosity – an important indicator of heart health. Kostyantyn has had support from the Accelerate UConn program as well as the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fellowship program to support the commercialization of the […] Categories: News, Research, Research Spotlights |
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