A senior biomedical engineering student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill helped a seven-year-old boy born without fully formed fingers on his left hand by designing and developing a prosthetic hand for him using a 3-D printer.
A Pennsylvania State University an undergraduate researcher working on the next generation of power cells–flexible batteries. These batteries are bendable with a fraction of the volume and weight of the ones we use today.
Six undergraduate students on the University of Arizona’s Microgravity Research Team conducted experiments to determine whether polymers, large molecules composed of many repeated subunits, made in space behave similarly to the same polymers made on Earth.
An undergraduate engineering student at Johns Hopkins University joined a research team which discovered that a previous assumption about the flight dynamics of insects was inaccurate. Their findings have implications for biologists who study how insects fly.
The University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project team finished second overall in the 2014 American Solar Challenge, an eight-day, 1,700-mile race that started in Austin, Texas on July 21 and ended at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis today.
University of Colorado Boulder aerospace engineering students are working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create robotic rovers that can investigate some of the earth’s hostile natural environments. See the rovers in action, and find out how CU-Boulder students are getting invaluable hands-on experience.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 4 million deaths each year from illnesses attributable to household air pollution. Chronic lung and heart diseases particularly affect the women and children who stay inside, tending the house. In fact, WHO reports that air pollution from household fuel combustion is the most important global environmental health risk today.
Last fall, students from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) responded to a challenge from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to help make their vehicles more accessible for people with disabilities.
Backstage, when the Case Western Reserve student hung out with the Sharks (who took selfies with him and told him to stay in school), he described how campus resources—innovation labs, aerospace experts and entrepreneurial guidance—are helping to bring his invention to life.