The American Heart Association (AHA) award will help support Roy’s research, which aims to help patients with atherosclerosis, a common cause of heart attacks.
Assistant Professor Claudia Loebel plans to use the grant to enhance the recruitment of undergraduate students from underrepresented minority backgrounds within Michigan.
The Tuteja group is developing new, nontoxic materials could one day keep airplane wings ice-free, or protect first responders from frostbite, and more.
The Pena-Francesch group is creating robots from flexible materials which allows them to contort in unique ways, handle delicate objects and explore places that other robots cannot.
To build mountains from dolomite, a common mineral, it must periodically dissolve. This counter-intuitive discovery by Wenhao Sun and team could help make new semiconductors and more.
The prestigious award offered by the Association for Computing Machinery goes to the team of U-M mechanical engineering and MSE professor Vikram Gavini.
Laine's team has developed new ways to refine common agricultural waste such as rice hulls into materials that can be used in lithium-ion batteries and other products important for the transition to green energy.
