MSEG Graduates 15 new Doctorates in 2007-2008

More photos from the 2008 hooding ceremony

Scientists train nano-’building blocks’ to take on new shapes, as reported in Science

Darrin Pochan, University of Delaware associate professor of materials science and engineering. Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

9:37 a.m., Aug. 3, 2007--Researchers from the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to behave--to literally “self-assemble” --and form into long, multicompartment cylinders 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, with potential uses in radiology, signal communication and the delivery of therapeutic drugs in the human body.

(Full UDaily article)

New UD tissue-engineering research focuses on vocal cords

UD scientists Xinqiao Jia and Randall Duncan are shown with the novel bioreactor that Jia designed. The device can simulate the demanding, high-frequency environment in which vocal cord cells live, vibrating back and forth at up to 100 hertz (100 times a second). Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson

1:54 p.m., July 31, 2007--Damaged or diseased vocal cords can forever change and even silence the voices we love, from a family member's to a famous personality's.

Julie Andrews, who starred in such classics as The Sound of Music, is among the professional singers who have undergone surgery to remove callus-like growths that can form from overuse of these two small, stretchy bands of tissue housed in the larynx, or voice box. Sadly, Andrews may never fully recover her singing voice after surgery on her vocal cords in 1997.

Engineering pliable, new vocal cord tissue to replace scarred, rigid tissue in these petite, yet powerful organs is the goal of a new University of Delaware research project. It is funded by a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

(Full UDaily article)

Events

9/10/2008 10:00 - 11:00am - CCM 106

Theresa Reineke

Virginia Tech

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9/24/2008 10:00 - 11:00am - CCM 106

Sayantani Ghosh

UC Merced

Quantum Dots organized with liquid crystals

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9/30/2008– 9:30- 10:30am- 106 CCM

Lucille A. Giannuzzi

FEI Company

Introduction to FIB/DualBeam Technology and Applications

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10/8/2008 1:30 - 2:30pm- CCM 106

David Mooney

Harvard

PROGRAMMING CELLS IN SITU

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10/29/2008 10:00 - 11:00am - CCM 106

CJ Pommier

Bristol Meyer Squib

Vibrational Spectroscopy in pharmaceutical id/analysis

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11/12/08 10:00 - 11:00am CCM 106

David Tirrell

Caltech

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11/tbd/2008 10:00 - 11:00am - CCM 106

Joe Weber

UD Dept. of Art Conservation

Scientific Analysis of Antiquities

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12/10/2008 10:00 - 11:00am - CCM 106

Peter Voorhees

Northwestern

Thermodynamics/Kinetics of Phase transformations in growth of QD/nanostructures