MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith spent years in debilitating pain before she was diagnosed with a condition often neglected in research. Her focus on the basic biology could lead to better treatments.
It's estimated that one in 10 women experience endometriosis during their reproductive years, a condition where cells that line the uterus go rogue by
The European Patent Office May 4 announced that Indian American chemist Sumita Mitra was nominated as a finalist for its 2021 European Inventor Award in the Non-EPO countries category.
Mitra was the first to apply nanotechnology to the production of dental materials, leading to the creation of a new composite to repair teeth which has many advantages over conventional materials, according to the news release.
Mitraâs material overcomes many of the limitations of previous dental composites, which were either too weak to be used on biting surfaces, or quickly lost their polish and became physically unattractive.
In addition, her invention is more versatile than other composites, meaning it can be used in any area of the mouth and simplifies the filling procedure for dentists. Commercialized as Filtek Supreme Universal Restorative since 2002 by 3M, the U.S. multinational for whom Mitra worked for more than 30 years, the technology and the products developed from it are tod
$2M gift to grow CATALYST Academy for minority students
May 11, 2021
The College of Engineering will grow the number of students it invites to its CATALYST Academy – a one-week summer program aimed at inspiring minority students to study engineering – thanks to a $2 million gift from Peter Wright ’75, MBA ’76.
The CATALYST Academy is for high school juniors and seniors who excel in math and science but may not have considered a STEM-related career path. Through the establishment of the Peter A. Wright CATALYST Fund, the academy will gradually grow its participants by approximately 25% while making it more accessible to low-income students. The program’s last cohort included 46 students.
Marine Robotics Pioneer Bellingham to Lead Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy
Jim Bellingham
Credit: Jim Bellingham Jim Bellingham, a pioneer in the worldwide autonomous marine robotics field who has led research expeditions from the Arctic to the Antarctic, has been appointed executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) in Baltimore. The institute is run jointly by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) in Baltimore. For more than 30 years, Bellingham has been a global leader in the development of small, high-performance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), resulting in a class of systems that are now widely used within the military, industry and science communities. He joins Johns Hopkins from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) where he was founding director of the Consortium for Marine Robotics since 2014