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CelluDot LLC, a startup founded by engineering alumni, will be using a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation grant to optimize a nanotechnology product they developed as doctoral students to mitigate herbicide drift, all in collaboration with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
The program helped Alexa Schmitz, Ph.D. ’18, and colleagues explore the market potential for their sustainable way of extracting rare earth elements used in many electronics.
The all-in-one product has three functions: drift-reducing agent, volatility-reducing agent and a surfactant and is made from forestry waste, like sawdust, rather than petroleum-based chemicals.
A third fallacy from Dr. Lisa Su of AMD, and a Ph.D. from MIT: “I saw that MIT Ph.D.’s worked for Harvard MBAs, and the truth is that made absolutely no sense to me.”
UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS) startup Cyta Therapeutics was the Judges’ Choice Best Startup at the 16th annual Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation (MALSI) Day in Boston on July 27.Cyta Therapeutics is an early-stage life