Science & Technology

Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $37,500 award from NASA.

Research from the lab of Kimberly Parker, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, shows that amines, sometimes used as an additive in herbicides, can enter the atmosphere, where they pose risks for human and environmental health.

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics, and Kater Murch, professor of physics, both in Arts & Sciences, each will receive $1.25 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for their projects over the next five years. Both are founding members of the university’s Center for Quantum Leaps.

Kun Wang, in Arts & Sciences, was selected for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Participating Scientist Program. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will bring material from a near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, back to Earth in 2023.

Jennifer Wang, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for microtubule formation research.

Faculty members Song Hu and Yong Wang are teaming up to find quantitative biomarkers for clinical pain management.

Abhinav Jha and a group of interdisciplinary collaborators have developed a method to measure dopamine transporter, a protein related to movement and Parkinson’s disease.

David A. Fike, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences and director of the environmental studies program and the International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, was installed as the Myron & Sonya Glassberg/Albert & Blanche Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor.

Song Hu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use photoacoustic microscopy to study abnormal oxygen metabolism in injured neonatal brains thanks to a five-year $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Hong Chen’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a noninvasive focused ultrasound intranasal delivery method to help treat central nervous system diseases and tumors.