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News and Spotlights
Prof. Elisa Franco is awarded a $350,000 grant from The National Science Foundation to fund research on robust artificial clocks made with molecules
The project, titled "Design and Synthesis of Robust and Tunable Nucleic Acid-Based Oscillators for Bionanotechnology", is a combination of computational and experimental efforts to generate tunable molecular clocks made with nucleic acids and proteins. These oscillators will potentially operate as timing devices for controlled large scale assembly or nanostructures, for nanofabrication, and for molecular computers.
Prof. Elisa Franco is awarded a Hellman Fellowship 
Prof. Elisa Franco will receive a $30,000 grant to support her research project, “Development of reconfigurable nanoscale materials using nucleic acids,” which will investigate ways to create programmed materials that are able to adapt in response to stimuli much like living cells.
ME and ME-Advised Graduate Students Win National Recognitions and Awards
Yasaman Damestani, Bioengineering (Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Guillermo Aguilar), Shannon Gott, Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Masaru P. Rao), Leopold Green, Bioengineering (Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Elisa Franco), Kendrick Mensink, Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Guillermo Aguilar)... Full Story
ME Assistant Professor Hideaki Tsutsui featured in UCR Living the Promise
Dr. Hideaki Tsutsui, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and his research on development of crop leaf biosensor are featured in UCR Living the Promise. http://promise.ucr.edu/profile-sustainability-tsutsui.html
UC Riverside Nanotechnologists Help Launch New National Center Devoted to Microelectronics
$28 million grant to fund “Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures,” aimed at supporting U.S. semiconductor industry... ME Professor Cengiz Ozkan is one of the researchers behind the New National Center devoted to Microelectronics... http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/11259
Assistant Professor Masaru P. Rao Awarded NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Masaru Rao has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research project entitled, "Titanium (Ti) Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Strength & Strengthenability" http://www.engr.ucr.edu/news/2013/2013-01-09.html
UCR Research on Three Journal Covers
Prof. Mihri Ozkan, Prof. Cengiz S. Ozkan, and co-workers report a new fluorescence quenching microscopy metrology technique that allows the identification of graphene layers and doped/undoped regions across a large graphene landscape by utilizing the fact that undoped regions of graphene quench fluorescence more than the doped regions through resonant energy transfer. Contrast differences in fluorescence across the graphene sheet reveal the complex ring-patterned doping. This metrology technique is well-suited for industrial, large-scale, pristine, and modified graphene sheet surface characterization. Ozkans’ and their co-workers’ related work published as cover articles in high-venue journals: SMALL, NANOSCALE and ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS.
SAE International Presented Eight Awards
SAE International presented eight engineering professors with the Ralph R. Teetor Education Award during the SAE 2012 World Congress, April 24-26, 2012, held in Detroit, Michigan. Professor Heejung Jung from the Mechanical Engineering Department, UC Riverside was one of the professors who received this award. SAE International
Engineering graduate student wins first place in 'Science as Art' competition for magnified image of nickel, aluminum and carbon
Shaahin Amini, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, won first place in the Science as Art competition for his image of a 'Super Tiny Giraffe'. http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/6070
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Spring Quarter 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013 – Fire Extinguisher Training
Friday, April 19, 2013 – Dr. Ming Zhou, Vice President FE Solvers & Optimization, Altair Engineering, Inc.
Friday, April 26, 2013 – Prof. Marko Princevac, Mechanical Engineering, UCR
Friday, May 3, 2013 – Dr. David Marshall, Principal Scientist, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging Co.
Friday, May 10, 2013 – Prof. Steven George, Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
Friday, May 17, 2013 – Dr. Kyle Sullivan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Friday, May 24, 2013 – Prof. Lorenzo Valdevit, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine
Friday, May 31, 2013 – Prof. Arash Kheradvar, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, UC Irvine
Friday, June 7, 2013 – Prof. Hyonny Kim, Structural Engineering, UC San Diego
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