MU professor Hongbin âBillâ Ma was named to the 2021 class of fellows for the National Academy of Inventors. It is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
Ma is a professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and director of the Center of Thermal Management in the College of Engineering at MU.
He has made outstanding contributions to fundamental science including in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and multi-phase heat transfer, according to his nomination to the academy from Shubhra Gangopadhyay, MU professor of electrical engineering and computer science who became an NAI fellow in 2015.
Ma and his team invented a coffee mug that lowers initial temperatures to a comfortable drinking level and maintains that temperature for a longer time. He is co-founder of ThermAvant, which produces and sells the coffee mugs.
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IMAGE: Chemistry professor and BiologicsMD co-founder Josh Sakon has been selected as a 2020 National Academy of Inventors fellow. Sakon s inventions address osteoporosis, bone metastasis and alopecia. view more
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Chemistry professor Josh Sakon, whose inventions address osteoporosis, bone metastasis and alopecia, has been selected as a 2020 National Academy of Inventors fellow.
The NAI Fellows Selection Committee announced 175 new fellows Dec. 8. According to the selection committee, NAI fellows are recognized as prolific academic inventors and have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
December 17th, 11am-12:30pm
December 17, 2020 12:30 PM Virtual Meeting
Talk Abstract: Research in programming methodology led to the development of the principles and methods that underlie how the implementations of modern software systems are designed and organized. At the center of this work are the notions of abstraction and modularity. These ideas are related: design is the process of inventing and identifying abstractions, which become the modules that make up the implementation. This talk will discuss our current understanding of abstraction and modularity and the research that got us to where we are today.
Bio: Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor at MIT. Her research interests include distributed and parallel systems, programming methodology, and programming languages. Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. She is
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MIT researchers have developed a bright, efficient silicon LED, pictured, that can be integrated directly onto computer chips. The advance could reduce cost and improve performance of microelectronics that use LEDs for sensing or communication.
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Light-emitting diodes LEDs can do way more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics too.
An LED that can be integrated directly into computer chips: The advance could cut production costs and reduce the size of microelectronics for sensing and communication
December 15, 2020
Joe Harding
Joe Harding, professor in Washington State University’s Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience department, was named a 2020 National Academy of Inventors Fellow.
He is one of 175 academic innovators from across the world elected to Fellow status this year. Dr. Harding’s research on the causes of dementia led to a start-company named Athira and their lead compound is in clinical trials for a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
The company, which went public in September, is the first WSU faculty-owned start-up company that has been publicly traded.