Research Wire

Scott VanBommel, a senior scientist in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, received $284,827 in funding from NASA.

Peng Bai at the McKelvey School of Engineering has received a $355,630 grant from the National Science Foundation to study safer batteries.

Erik Henriksen, associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $599,784 grant from the Office of Naval Research for his research project on topological qubits.

Willem Dickhoff in Arts & Sciences won a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on “Green’s functions and the nuclear many-body problem.”

Arts & Sciences’ new internal grant program, “Seeding Projects for Enabling Excellence & Distinction” (SPEED), aims to spur novel and impactful research, scholarship and creative practice initiatives. Leaders have chosen the first cohort of grant winners.

Abhinav Jha and his collaborators have developed a way to measure the distribution of dangerous radiation associated with cancer treatments.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year $1.67 million grant to Chuan Wang, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, for research on preterm birth. Wang and an interdisciplinary team will develop soft sensors with stretchable electrodes to generate 3D maps of the uterine surface and better understand contractions.

A new technological pairing from the lab of Quing Zhu at the McKelvey School of Engineering may lead to an improved diagnostic tool for colorectal cancer.

A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Amit Pathak to take a closer look at how certain cells use priming and memory to respond to new tissues.

Kimberly Parker at the McKelvey School of Engineering will use a grant from the Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research to better understand dicamba volatilization.