Battling Brain Cancer with Nanofibers
Glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer, is always fatal and kills its victims within months. Surgery, which is the…
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AMITABH BASU, assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER…
Pedal Power
Bicycling is gentle on the environment and great for human health. Yet just one to two percent of Baltimore residents use…
Mapping Drosophilia’s Brain
They would seem unlikely allies: a mathematician and a neuroscientist who studies fruit fly larvae. But from the moment that…
Untangling Neural Traffic Jams
Randal Burns, a computer scientist, and Joshua Vogelstein, PhD ’10, a biomedical engineer, are part of a multi-institution team using…
A New Breed of Catalysts
The idea is simple: Capture the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by gasoline-and-oil-burning vehicles, factories, and power plants, and…
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Jordan Green, an associate professor of biomedical engineering, was selected as one of Popular Science magazine’s “Brilliant Ten,” a list that…
Need for Speed
The Internet has revolutionized the flow of information beyond anyone’s prediction, but to Yair Amir, a professor of computer science…
Getting Creative in the Face of Disaster
Stemming the cascade of catastrophe that occurs when an earthquake, hurricane, flood, or other disaster strikes a community is the…