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The Faculty
of Engineering is a new kind of engineering
unit organized to capture the convergence of the sciences, humanities
and engineering. Out of the confluence of disciplines grows a use-inspired
research paradigm focused on the development of products and services
that are relevant to the needs of society.
The Office
of the Vice President for Research and the University of Georgia
Research Foundation announced the recipients of the Engineering Grants
Program for 2004. Six interdisciplinary proposals were selected for funding;
congratulations to the teams, listed below with the title of their proposal,
for recognition of their interdisciplinary, engineering-related research.
Yiping Zhao
and Yao-Wen Huang "A Nanorod-Based Sensor for Bio-Signal Amplification
and Rapid Detection of Pathogens" $35,000
Glen Rains
and W. Joe Lewis "Development of a Field Portable Volatile Chemical
Sensor Using A Trained Parasitoid Wasp, Microplitis croceipes" $25,000
Andrew Sornborger,
Charles Keith and James Lauderdale "Intrinsic Fluorimetric Imaging
of Neural Activation in Cultured Cells and Zebrafish" $40,000
Joy Doran
Peterson and Mark Eiteman "Using Georgia's Warm Season Grasses
as Substrates for Bio-based Industrial Products" $30,000
The following
are projects from the 2003 Engineering Grants Program that were selected
for a second year of funding:
John Stickney
and Uwe Happek "Electrodeposition of Monolithic Optoelectronic Devices"
$40,000
William Kisaalita
and Yiping Zhao "Developing Microstructures for Three-Dimensional
Cell Growth" $30,000
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