Researchers at the University of Central Florida (UCF) School of Visual Arts and Design have partnered with Limbitless Solutions (Limbitless), a nonprofit company staffed mostly by former and current UCF students, to develop a new technology that enables users with prosthetics to operate a game controller that allows muscle movements to send signals to sensors. This new game controller essentially trains children with a prosthetic arm to train their muscles, so they don’t overexert themselves and can use the arm efficiently. The signals in the arm allow users to jump, smash, and make any other movements with video game characters.

University of Central Florida Researchers Develop Technology That Helps People With Prosthetics Play Video Games

By: Vanessa Sewell

Ever wonder what honeybees are saying to each other as they buzz busily around their hive? You won’t have to wonder for long. Oldooz Pooynfar, a graduate student at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada, has devised a new technology that aims to find out exactly what the honeybees are communicating to each other, and how it can help us learn more about their health. Pooynfar is a student at SFU’s School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, and works as a research assistant. She has developed a beehive monitoring system that operates from inside the beehive where the platform’s

Simon Fraser University Student Decodes Honeybee Health From Bee Buzz

By: Samuel O'Brient

Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of allergic conditions, such as asthma and eczema. The team, led by Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Professor of Translational Immunology, Padraic Fallon, of the School of Medicine in the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, demonstrated that a molecule, referred to as PD-L1, functions as a trigger to the inflammation characteristic of an allergic reaction in mice. An allergic reaction occurs when the body’s immune system mistakes something (e.g., pollen and dust mites) for a pathogen and responds by taking measures to rid the body of that

Trinity College Dublin Scientists Make Significant Breakthrough For Allergic Conditions

By: Cameron Carpenter

Takeout meals are becoming increasingly popular and more common in college campuses where students rush from one class to the next with just minutes to eat in between. Even when their long days are over, many students find themselves eating in their dorms or on their campus quads. At Dartmouth College, Madison Sabol, a rising senior, took a closer look at this trend. What she saw was a market ripe for sustainability and innovation that ultimately led to the Green2Go takeout program on campus. Sabol started her work towards developing the Green2Go initiative two years ago. As an underclassman, she

Dartmouth College Student Introduces Campus Green2Go Food Takeout Program to Help Sustainability

By: Samuel O'Brient

A team of researchers at the Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center and OSU’s College of Engineering has developed Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), a new technology capable of generating cells needed to repair and restore tissue in patient’s organs, blood vessels, and nerve cells. The study was recently published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The director of OSU’s Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Based Therapies Chandan Sen co-led this study with L. James Lee, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at OSU’s College of Engineering. “By using our novel nanochip technology, injured or compromised organs can be replaced,” Sen

Ohio State University Researchers Develop Technology That Could Help Reprogram Cells to Repair and Regenerate As Needed

By: Jackson Schroeder

A team of researchers led by engineers from University at Buffalo in New York (UB) has developed an optical device that has the potential to vastly increase the sensitivity and effectiveness of current drug and explosive detection techniques. The University Network (TUN) spoke with Qiaoqiang Gan, associate professor of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UB and lead author of this study, about the significance of the new device. New device is much more effective Current methods of detecting drug or explosive residue on various materials involve spectroscopy — examining the interaction between particulate matter

University at Buffalo Researchers Develop New Optical Device That Could Detect Drugs or Explosives

By: Cameron Carpenter

A research team at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in conjunction with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and Boston University’s College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, have developed a prototype “exosuit” to help stroke victims walk normally. A stroke can have an incredibly devastating effect on an individual’s body and mind.  Approximately 80 percent of stroke victims suffer some form of mobility loss in at least one limb–a condition known as “hemiparesis.” Sufferers of hemiparesis often lose the ability to walk in a straight line; instead, they

Harvard and Boston University’s New Robotic Exosuit Helps Stroke Victims Walk Normally

By: Cameron Carpenter

A team of researchers from Stanford University and University of California, San Diego have developed a brand new kind of camera with robotics in mind. This new camera will remove a key challenge robotics engineers face today in terms of capturing images. Digital cameras, even the top-of-the-line models, are not well-suited for capturing the wide field of view a robot needs to move around in a given space, such as in a self-driving car. The University Network (TUN) spoke with Donald Dansereau, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and first author on this project, to get his take on the new

Stanford University and University of California, San Diego Researchers Develop 4D Camera That Could Enhance Robotic Vision and Augmented and Virtual Reality

By: Cameron Carpenter

Quantum computing has taken a great leap forward thanks to a team of University of Surrey researchers led by Dr. Steve Chick and Professor Ben Murdin. They have successfully manipulated phosphorus atoms within silicon crystals (the material existing digital computer circuits are made of) and made them “dance” by controlling their shape and size. The method used is called “surface code” quantum computing, and involves placing several items in a fixed grid of silicon crystals and using the dancing motion of the atoms to control how they interact. The research is groundbreaking for two reasons. First of all, it demonstrates

University of Surrey Researchers Move the Needle Closer Towards Quantum Computing With Their ‘Dancing’ Phosphorus Atoms

By: Cameron Carpenter

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