Victor Bright

Mechanical engineering professor asserts that 鈥渟ize matters鈥 when it comes to microscale sensors and machines

Oct. 13, 2021

Victor M. Bright of the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering will deliver his Distinguished Research Lecture 鈥淢icroscale Sensors and Machines鈥擲ize Matters!鈥 virtually on Tuesday, November 2 from 4鈥5 p.m.

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Ding lab aims to improve cancer-fighting immunotherapies with $1.8M grant

July 28, 2021

Professor Xiaoyun Ding recently earned a $1.8 million grant to help improve cancer-fighting tools and cut patient costs, exploring ways to streamline delivery of lifesaving treatments into immune cells.

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Researchers scale up tiny actuator inspired by muscle

Nov. 12, 2020

Researchers at CU 麻豆影院 are collaborating to develop a new kind of biocompatible actuator that contracts and relaxes in only one dimension, like muscles. Their research may one day enable soft machines to fully integrate with our bodies to deliver drugs, target tumors, or repair aging or dysfunctional tissue.

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New technology diagnoses sickle cell disease in record time

Oct. 15, 2020

Diseases of the blood, like sickle cell disease, have traditionally taken a full day, tedious lab work and expensive equipment to diagnose, but researchers across disciplines have developed a way to diagnose these conditions with greater precision in only one minute.

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Dynamic tattoos promise to warn wearers of health threats

Sept. 24, 2020

Researchers are developing tattoo inks that do more than make pretty colors. Some can sense chemicals, temperature and UV radiation, setting the stage for tattoos that diagnose health problems.

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Engineers helped lay foundation for campus quantum research efforts, new center

Aug. 31, 2020

A new $25 million center to advance quantum science on CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 campus has deep roots in CU Engineering鈥檚 interdisciplinary research efforts.

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Scientists win grant to unravel mystery of how animals track scent

Aug. 12, 2020

Seeking to understand how animals follow scent, a team of scientists has won a grant to peer deeply inside the brain as the process takes place.

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Salt solution: Researcher sets out to make desalination more efficient

Nov. 1, 2019

麻豆影院 postdoctoral researcher Omkar Supekar of mechanical engineering is working on a technique that could make desalination facilities more efficient by changing the way they detect chemicals that clog up their filters.

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Novel microwave sensor developed at CU 麻豆影院

July 5, 2019

Researchers are developing sensors based on technologies used in chip-scale atomic clocks and optically pumped magnetometers with sensitivity and accuracy able to support wireless broadband antenna technologies.

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Researchers win grant to commercialize miniature microscope

July 3, 2019

Victor Bright and a team of CU 麻豆影院 and CU Anschutz researchers have received a grant to commercialize a miniature microscope that fits on the head of a mouse and can peer deeply inside the living brain.

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