NSF awards Premnath $50K to aid in customer discovery of bone-healing drug

In June, the National Science Foundation awarded $50,000 to Priyatha Premnath, assistant professor, biomedical engineering, for a one-year I-Corps project to determine the commercialization pathway for the repurposing of an anti-cancer drug for bone healing. The drug, UC2288, is an …

Cuzner awarded $50K from Eaton for research on extreme power conversion

Eaton Corporation awarded Rob Cuzner, associate professor, electrical engineering and computer science, $50,000 in July for a one-year project on extreme power conversion. The purpose of the project is to apply model-based methods to the design of variable frequency motor drives …

Park works on replacing the most potent greenhouse gas of all

Chanyeop Park, assistant professor, electrical engineering, is working with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology to develop and test an environmentally neutral alternative to the substance currently used in high-voltage electrical distribution equipment. As infrastructure ages, the substance—sulfur hexafluoride—is becoming …