Research Wire

The Midwest Climate Collaborative recently received its first National Science Foundation grant to explore ways to mitigate heat islands in four Midwestern cities.

Using machine learning with an additional processing step, researchers from the lab of Matthew Lew at the McKelvey School of Engineering can wrest a host of information from a few pixels of light.

Mark Lawrence, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received a $100,000 grant from the Optica Foundation for research into high-resolution meta-reflect arrays with low power consumption.

Thomas Kannampallil, at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year $2 million grant to study physician burnout and workload, and their effects on patient safety.

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Patrick Crowley will develop new tools for computer science research on cellphones and explore internet communication models with two NSF grants.

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

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.

Adam T. Eggebrecht at the School of Medicine received a two-year $452,702 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research brain function in children with autism.

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.