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Monday, 25 August 2008

Brown hosts Computer Architecture Conference

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As a joint effort of the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), Brown University hosted the second summer school workshop in Computer Architecture focused on Parallel Programming and Architectures. The workshop was held on August 20-21, 2008 and included a group of undergraduates (juniors or seniors) in computer science or computer engineering degree programs and related fields. The organizers included Iris Bahar, Brown University, Russ Joseph, Northwestern University, Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, and Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University. A highlight was a question and answer session with former Turing Award winner, Frances Allen. We gratefully acknowledge support from CRA and CDC and the NSF BPC program. In addition, we also thank Sun Microsystems, IBM Research, and the Association for Computing Machinery for their generous contributions to help sponsor this event.
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Friday, 1 August 2008

Archived articles as of August 2008

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Division News Archives are available here.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Nanotech to regrow cartilage

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Excerpt from full article available here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nanotech-cartilage
Thomas Webster, an associate engineering professor at Brown University, and Brown researcher Dongwoo Khang, along with Grace Park, a research scientist (and one of Webster's former PhD students) at Becton, Dickinson and Company, a Franklin Lakes, N.J.–medical technology firm, say they grew cartilage cells by placing chondrocytes (cartilage-forming cells) and carbon nanotubes together on a polycarbonate urethane surface. As expected, cartilage cells grew around the nanotubes, which are so strong that scientists now use them to reinforce plastic. Researchers say they hastened new cell production by sending electrical surges through the nanotubes, which are also excellent conductors of electricity
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Monday, 14 July 2008

Engineering course develops toys for rehabilitation

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"Crisco was teaching an engineering course that combined industrial science students from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and engineering studies students at Brown University. The pair believed this was a perfect forum to bring creative minds together to create some prototypes for new therapeutic toys. Thus, Toys and Technology for Rehabilitation was formed."
News story link here:
http://www.lifespan.org/news/2008/07/01/toys-and-technology-for-rehabilitation/
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008

NYT highlights CFL tech

Posted on 11:07 by Unknown

The technology developed by Bob Hurt and his student Natalie Johnson in Engineering along with Steve Hamburg in Environmental Studies was written up in today's Science Times in the NY Times. In the print version it is on page D3.

The on-line NYT link here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08obcfl.html?ex=1216180800&en= 0d75d9294da22dfd&ei=5070&emc=eta1
The Brown press release here: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2008/06/mercurycloth08jun

They have developed a material that can capture the mercury in compact fluorescent bulbs which goes into the environment if they are broken. I think this could be a very important technology and the inventors are getting a lot of interest in the IP.

Congratulations to Bob, Natalie, and Steve.
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Saturday, 28 June 2008

Major NIH Grant awarded

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Associate Professor Diane Hoffman-Kim and Professor Tayhas Palmore earned a major NIH grant together.

Project Title: Quantifying Axon Growth in Complex Environments

Nerves fail to regenerate after injury and current medical practice is unable to manipulate effectively the process of nerve regeneration. The proposed research seeks to solve this problem by quantifying how guidance cues, both individually and in combination, promote axon growth in an inhibitory environment such as a nerve injury site.
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Monday, 23 June 2008

Sirinrath Sirivisoot Highlighted

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Sirinrath Sirivisoot highlighted for talk at the Materials Research Society International Materials Research Conference in Chongqing, China

Engineering graduate student: Sirinrath Sirivisoot (advisor: Thomas J. Webster) was highlighted for her talk “Controlled Release of Antibiotics from Conductive Polymers for Improving Bone Implants” at the Materials Research Society International Materials Research Conference in Chongqing, China, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Sirinrath gave a talk concerning the development of intelligent in situ orthopedic implant sensors that can sense the type of new tissue that is growing and respond accordingly. For example, if new bone growth is not occurring, this sensor can release bone growth factors to increase bone growth. As another example, if infection is sitting in, the sensor can release antibiotics.

http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=14934&DID=212426
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