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RESEARCH

NEWS  •  Fall 2020

ImageThis digital newsletter is an abbreviated version of the Fall 2020 IMPACT research publication. Read the current issue.

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Responding to COVID-19:
AI, Nanotech, Medicine

Stevens responded to the appearance of the global COVID-19 pandemic with research in key areas and applications including promising lung therapies, ventilator technology, mask materials and artificial intelligence-based analyses of quarantine conditions.

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Stevens to Lead New NSF Fintech Research Center

Stevens will head a pathbreaking university-industry center to study the science underpinning financial technologies.
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Wave Energy: A Clean, Renewable Power Source

Stevens will collaborate with Virginia Tech on design enhancements to ocean platforms that could produce significant emissions-free power generation.
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Brain Research with Carnegie Mellon, Mount Sinai

The National Science Foundation will support a collaborative Stevens effort to view brain injuries and diseases from a novel biomechanical perspective.
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AI to Predict Alcohol Abuse

New technology can foretell individual binge-drinking with very high accuracy by analyzing smartphone usage data.
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Undergraduate Team Tops Oak Ridge Lab Challenge

A team of four Stevens student researchers secures first and second prizes at a national challenge with novel analysis of urban energy data.

RECENT AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
  • Christos Christodoulatos and Stevens' Center for Environmental Systems were awarded $3 million from the Department of Defense (DoD) to pursue a two-year project at DoD munitions facilities.
  • Nick Parziale was awarded $1.2 million by the Office of Naval Research's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) for collaborative investigations with the University of Minnesota on hypersonic travel.
  • Parziale and Brendan Englot received two prestigious Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) totaling approximately $1 million.
  • Jinho Kim co-authored "Xenogeneic cross-circulation for extracorporeal recovery of injured human lungs" in Nature Medicine (Volume 26, pp. 1102–1113), describing new methods of rehabilitating donor lungs.
  • Johannes Weickenmeier received approximately $425,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support continued investigations into the toxic proteins that contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.
  • Mehmet Kurt received approximately $475,000 from the NIH to collaborate with Mount Sinai Hospital on a project aimed at improving diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease through enhanced MRI techniques.
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