Michigan E-News
November 2004
Welcome to Michigan E-News, an update of happenings at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. It is published by the Office of College Relations, Media and Marketing.
IN THIS ISSUE:
RESEARCH AND NEWS UPDATES
A Better System for Flu Vaccine?
Methane Discovered on Mars
College is Tops in U. Tech Transfer
Growth in Female Faculty
BITS--brief stories from the College
Technology Review Recognizes Top Innovator Under 35
Computing Team Qualifies for World Championship
ALUMNI AND GIVING
Alumni Society Recognizes 15 Outstanding Michigan Engineers
PhD Student Fund Established in Memory of Thomas M. Donahue
RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE
A Better System for Flu Vaccine?
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Nicholas Kotov, associate professor, ChE, MSE, BME, and colleagues have developed a way to create cell scaffolds, which could one day lead to faster and easier production of a flu vaccine. Read more... |
 Scanning electron microscope images of liver cells after incubation with inverted colloidal crystal scaffolds made from colloidal particles of different diameters. |
Methane Discovered on Mars
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A European Space Agency team including Sushil Atreya, professor, AOSS, has detected methane gas on Mars, the best indicator yet of the possibility of life on the planet. Read more... |
College is Tops in U. Tech Transfer
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The College produced 42% of all U-M invention disclosures in FY04 with 118, the highest number of any unit on campus. Read more... |
Growth in Female Faculty
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The College recorded a third consecutive year of growth in the percentage and number of tenured and tenure-track faculty who are female. Overall, the University has seen a doubling in the hiring of science and engineering faculty halfway through a five-year NSF project grant designed to improve female recruitment, retention and promotion. Read more... |
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Technology Review Recognizes Top Innovator Under 35
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Technology Review magazine has named Joerg Lahann, assistant professor, ChE, MSE, BME, as one of the top 100 innovators under the age of 35, worldwide. Lahann was cited as he "Designed an electrically switchable surface coating that can alternate between attracting and repelling water. Such 'smart surfaces' could coat biomedical implants for use in tissue engineering, sensing, or drug delivery." Read more... |
Computing Team Qualifies for World Championship
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A student programming team will compete in Shanghai, China, in April in the World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. The team is one of only 75 finalists out of nearly 4000 that participated in regional competitions internationally. Read more... |
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Alumni Society Recognizes 15 Outstanding Michigan Engineers
| MIT president Chuck Vest, iPod developer Tony Fadell, MDSI co-founder and solar car supporter Chuck Hutchins and a dozen other distinguished College alums received recognition at the 13th annual Alumni Society Awards Dinner. Read more... |
PhD Student Fund Established in Memory of Thomas M. Donahue
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"I want to know how the planets of the solar system were formed, how they came to evolve as they did and the significance of all that for the existence of life in the solar system and in the rest of the universe." - Thomas Donahue |
"Of Oil Paintings and Smarter Locks," 10/18/04, Business Week
"IPO Yields Payoff for U. of Michigan and Student Venture Capitalists,"
10/29/04, The Chronicle of Higher Education, p. 28
"Good News for Laboratory Mice," 10/18/04, Financial Times, FT.com
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