Science and Enterprise

Tag: NSF

  • Universities, Companies Partner on Data Center Power Use

    Three U.S. universities have joined with 15 companies in a collaborative research center to increase energy efficiency and help create a greener electronics industry. Researchers at Binghamton University in New York, Villanova University in Pennsylvania, and University of Texas at Arlington are the institutions taking part in the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center in Energy-Efficient Electronic…

  • NSF Award to Help Commercialize Implanted Medication Pump

    A biomedical engineering professor at University of Southern California in Los Angeles has received an Innovation Corps award from National Science Foundation to help bring to market research from her lab. The six-month $50,000 grant — one of the first group of Innovation Corps awardees announced last month by NSF — will help USC’s Ellis…

  • NSF Grant to Fund Savannah River Water Quality Monitors

    Clemson University in South Carolina says it received a grant to develop a computerized water-quality technology for the entire length of the Savannah River. The four-year grant, exceeding $3 million, is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Computer and Network Systems. The system is expected to cover a network of buoys (pictured left)…

  • Students Start Company to Commercialize Biochar Process

    Students at University of Washington in Seattle are taking to market a new process to turn forestry waste into biochar, a charcoal-like substance that boosts agricultural yields. Their company, C6 Systems, is also a recipient of one of the first Innovation Corps grants from National Science Foundation. Jenny Knoth, a UW doctoral student in forest…

  • Grant to Fund Research on Biodegradable Implant Materials

    The engineering school at University of California in Riverside has received funding for research on alternative materials for medical implants that degrade naturally. National Science Foundation awarded the two-year grant for $175,000 to assistant professor of bioengineering Huinan Liu. Liu’s research will focus on developing biodegradable medical implant materials that would promote tissue regeneration and…

  • Math Methods Devised to Design Chemical Catalysts

    Research chemists at University of Utah in Salt Lake City have developed a process based on mathematics to design chemical catalysts, including those for making drugs. Professor Matt Sigman (pictured right) and doctoral student Kaid Harper report their findings in this week’s issue of the journal Science; paid subscription required. Catalysts are substances that encourage…

  • NSF Grant to Fund Research on Power Distribution

    A team of engineers and computer scientists at Kansas State University in Manhattan have received a $1.1 grant to research better ways of distributing solar power to homes and businesses. The grant, funded by National Science Foundation’s Cyber-Physical Systems program, aims to give utilities generating solar energy better tools for managing and distributing this power.…

  • NYU to Study Response of Rice to Environmental Change

    The National Science Foundation’s Plant Genome Research Program has awarded a $3.6 million grant to New York University to study the response of rice to environmental change. NYU’s Michael Purugganan and Richard Bonneau, who are part of the university’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, will head the study, and collaborate with Endang Septiningsih of…

  • Smartphone Advance Can Improve Efficiency, Extend Battery

    Researchers at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have devised a more efficient “idle mode” for smartphones and Wi-Fi devices that reduces power use and can extend battery life. Computer science and engineering professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang will present their discovery, still in proof-of-concept stage, next week at the ACM International…

  • Magnetic Fields Help Purify Hybrid Nanoparticles

    Chemistry, physics, and materials scientists at Pennsylvania State University have invented a new system using magnetism to purify hybrid nanoparticles, a development with implications for drug delivery, medical imaging, and related fields. The findings of Mary Elizabeth Williams,  Raymond E. Schaak, and their colleagues at Penn State appear online in the journal Agewandte Chemie (paid…