Engineering and Technology
Breezometer – One, Two, Three, Breathe
Air pollution has been a growing world problem, amplified by the ever increasing number of people and their consumption patterns. Now, technological progress and big data have merged to enable environmental scientists and engineers at BreezoMeter to address the...
Professor Daniel Szymanski – Math Plus Biology: Building A Knowledge Base To Engineer Plant Traits
Novel research seeks to unravel one of the most complex mysteries of plant biology and pave the way toward better, denser crops, under the careful guidance of Professor Daniel Szymanski at Purdue University. Looking into Leaf Growth Trapped within a thick canopy...
Dr Jesper W. Gjerloev – Earth Interactions With Space – Do We Finally Understand Them?
Space scientist Dr Jesper Gjerloev and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, are part of a world-wide consortium of scientists studying the Earth’s interactions with near Space. Mother Earth’s Magnetic...
Dr Jing He – Using Advanced Computational Techniques To Derive Protein Structures From 3d Cryo-Electron Microscopic Images With Insufficient Resolution
Scientist Dr Jing He and her colleagues at Old Dominion University in Virginia use advanced computational techniques to interpret 3-dimensional electron microscopic images of frozen proteins to determine their 3-dimensional structures. The World of Molecular...
Professor Eli Glatstein – Photodynamic Therapy: An Illuminating Approach To Cancer Treatment
Professor Eli Glatstein and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania have applied photodynamic therapy for the treatment of a variety of types of cancer. Here, we illustrate the rationale behind this technique and discuss malignant pleural mesothelioma, a type...
Professor William W. Lytton – Uniting Biology And Maths To Understand The Human Brain
Neurologist and computational neuroscientist Professor Bill Lytton and his colleagues at the Neurosimulation Laboratory of the State University of New York in Brooklyn are using computer simulation to investigate brain function and disease. Their research has...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
On the 14th of September 2015 scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime for the very first time. These ripples, known as gravitational waves, arrived at Earth from a cataclysmic event in the...
The Small Business Administration
Small businesses are the creators of jobs and the driving force behind the US economy. Recognising this truth, the US government established the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1953 in order to help Americans start and develop their own small businesses. As...
Dr Ryoma Hayakawa – The middle way combining molecular electronics with traditional silicon
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Professor Hassan Noura – The challenges of complexity
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Dr Takashi Sato – Taking full advantage of current technology
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Dr Shoji Hamada – A novel electric current simulator in the human brain
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Professor Shmuel Banai – Managing Refractory Angina in Absence of Options
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Professor Maria Forsyth & Dr Patrick Howlett – Renewable energy gets a boost from sodium battery technology
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Dr Lynn Riddell – Seeking answers from iron and blood
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Dr Lisa Nishii – Improving the working lives of people with disabilities
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Professor Hiroshi Ueda – Improving Medical Care with Engineering
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Hirofumi Sakai – Manipulation of Molecular Quantum States
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Dr Hans-Joachim Maempel- Audio-visual room perception
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Fermilab
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Sofiane Zalouk & Johan Rey – Capturing the forgotten source of CO2
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