Tag: university
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Consortium Funds Semiconductor Research in Emirates
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a university-research consortium in Durham, North Carolina, announced seven research contracts will be awarded to four universities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The new contracts continue the joint effort between SRC and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) in the UAE begun last year on semiconductor sciences and technologies. The…
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Measure Devised of Disruption From Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks
Engineers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh have developed a way of measuring the potential disruption from various types of attacks on Wi-Fi networks. The tools proposed by professor of electrical and computer engineering professor Wenye Wang and her colleagues will appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.…
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Non-Native Insects Costing Local Governments, Homeowners
Scientists from U.S. and Canadian universities and the U.S. Forest Service built a statistical model to compute the cost of damage caused by invasive tree-feeding insects that are inadvertently imported to the U.S. The team from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at University of California in Santa Barbara published their findings…
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Student Engineers/Entrepreneurs Develop Child Safety Device
Two engineering students at Michigan Technological University in Houghton are taking to market a device they built to keep children from unbuckling their seat belts. Collin Veele and Alex Cotton say they have secured a provisional patent and trademark, and now their Buckle Blocker is ready for the marketplace. The Buckle Blocker, which would typically…
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Superbug Screening Methods Under Development
Researchers at University of Houston and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, also in Houston, are developing better screening methods to detect a potentially lethal, drug-resistant superbug found in that region. The team’s findings on the discovery of the multi-drug resistant bacterium appeared earlier this year in the journal Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease (paid subscription required).…
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Companies Need Better Mix of Business, Patent Strategies
Science and engineering companies often develop innovations based on multiple discoveries, which calls for better integration of their patent and business strategies, according to study by three intellectual property analysts. The paper by Deepak Somaya at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana college of business (pictured left), with David Teece of University of California at…
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Study: Inexpensive Controls Cut Hospital Infections
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill find that an inexpensive set of infection control measures could save patient lives and cut health care costs by preventing hospital infections. The findings appear in the September 2011 issue of the journal Health Affairs (paid subscription required). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate…
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University, Company Partner on Contraband Nuclear Detector
Researchers at University of New Hampshire in Durham and Michigan Aerospace Corporation in Ann Arbor have received a contract from the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency to build an instrument to accurately detect illicit radioactive materials from a safe distance. The one-year contract of $303,000 calls for a realistic field test of the device in…
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U.S., China Universities to Collaborate on Cancer Biomarkers
Arizona State University in Tempe and Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, China have agreed to collaborate on research developing early and predictive diagnostics for colorectal cancer. The agreement involves the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health at ASU and the SYSU Gastrointestinal Institute of the Sixth Affiliated Hospital in Guangzhou. Research scientists at the…
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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…