(c) Copyright 2006 | http://www.wimserc.org/ | All Rights Reserved http://www.wimserc.org/slc/news.php The latest headlines from the WIMS Student Leadership Council Newsroom en WIMS XML RSS Feed Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:49:19 -0600 1 http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071208/NEWS05/712080324/1102/NEWS06 2007-12-08 00:00:00 Almost 200 students from eight high schools participated in the MSU College of Engineering's Design Day, which also included project presentations by current MSU students. http://www.egr.msu.edu/egr/publications/today/articles/20071116.motorola-LEGO.php 2007-11-16 00:00:00 Michigan State University’s College of Engineering will receive two Innovation Generation Grants from the Motorola Foundation. http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/index.php3?article=07Nov2007-1 2007-11-07 00:00:00 November 7, 2007 - Elementary and middle school students will be building Lego robots capable of performing specific tasks as part of MSU's FIRST Lego League qualifying tournament at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. http://www.physorg.com/news105194778.html 2007-08-01 00:00:00 A brain-damaged man who could communicate only with slight eye or thumb movements for six years can speak again, after stimulating electrodes were placed in his brain, researchers report. http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0607/Apr02_07/04.shtml 2007-04-02 00:00:00 U-M researchers leading an interdisciplinary team have won a prestigious W.M. Keck Foundation grant to build microsystems, which will help scientists decode the mechanisms that guide embryo and stem cell development. http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2007/enginheart.htm 2007-03-27 00:00:00 ANN ARBOR, MI – Some day, heart attack survivors might have a patch of laboratory-grown muscle placed in their heart, to replace areas that died during their attack. http://www.physorg.com/news87558176.html 2007-01-09 00:00:00 In attempting to construct an artificial cochlea—and faced with limited knowledge of how the living chamber works—scientists might need to look no further than a simple electronic device: a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator. http://www.physorg.com/news69001445.html 2007-01-08 00:00:00 In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Marcelo Magnasco, professor and head of the Mathematical Physics Laboratory at Rockefeller University, has published a paper that may prove to be a sound-analysis breakthrough, featuring a mathematical method or “algorithm” that’s far more nuanced at transforming sound into a visual representation than current methods. http://www.physorg.com/news85164217.html 2006-12-12 00:00:00 It’s been shown that the left side of the brain processes language and the right side processes music; but what about a language like Mandarin Chinese, which is musical in nature with wide tonal ranges" http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-lab11dec11,0,7368753.story?coll=la-headlines-health 2006-12-11 00:00:00 An experimental 'hybrid' device may give many with partial hearing loss the extra boost they need. It's a new variation on the cochlear implant. http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2006/12/10/health/16258258&sec=health 2006-12-10 00:00:00 Cochlear implants for people with severe sensor-neural hearing loss. http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Earlier-the-better-for-cochlear-implants/2006/12/07/1165081079487.html 2006-12-07 00:00:00 Deaf babies and toddlers who are given a cochlear implant between the ages of six months and two years have a greater chance of developing normal language skills, according to Australian researchers. http://teaching.shu.ac.uk/hwb/chemistry/tutorials/chrom/chrom1.htm 2006-12-06 00:00:00 GC's are the second most common laboratory instruments (behind the analytical balance).This is a quick and dirty primer on how a GC works. http://technologyreview.com/NanoTech/17846 2006-12-01 00:00:00 The same technology used in TNT detectors in Iraq is being adapted for airport security to sniff out liquid-bomb-making materials. http://www.technologyreview.com/BioTech/17842/ 2006-11-30 00:00:00 Scientists are now building a device that records brain signals and transmits them to paralyzed muscles, potentially returning muscle control to severely paralyzed patients. http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/801173/2697 2006-11-06 00:00:00 Varian, Inc. today debuted a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS) capable of femtogram detection limits and a mass range up to 2000 Da to identify a wide range of compounds. http://technologyreview.com/BioTech/17678/ 2006-10-31 00:00:00 A new brain chip being tested in monkeys could one day reconnect brain areas damaged by stroke or spinal-cord injury. http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2006/Sep06/r091406c 2006-09-14 00:00:00 Scientists looked to ferns to create a novel energy scavenging device that uses the power of evaporation to move itself -- materials that could provide a method for powering micro and nano devices with just water or heat. http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=31KISKWFGMFZEQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=192700275 2006-09-11 00:00:00 It's the answer, with a caveat, to the question that will be on everyone's mind today. But from a technologist's perspective, there are other questions to ask about where we stand five years after the 9/11 attacks. http://www.physorg.com/news76869958.html 2006-09-07 00:00:00 The U.S.-based Boston Scientific Corp. has admitted there is an increased risk of blood clots caused by use of its drug-coated cardiac stent. http://www.sensorsmag.com/sensors/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=362321 2006-08-01 00:00:00 Researchers and development engineers exchange information on the latest advances in microsystems at the Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems workshop (Hilton Head). http://mmrs.fema.gov/news/terrorism/2006/jun/nter2006-06-07.aspx 2006-06-06 00:00:00 A postage stamp-sized Geiger counter placed unobtrusively in stadiums, subways, malls and other large public spaces could detect radiation and determine whether it's a harmful source, like a dirty bomb. http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2006/Jun06/r060506a 2006-06-05 00:00:00 A postage stamp-sized Geiger counter placed unobtrusively in stadiums, subways, malls and other large public spaces could detect radiation and determine whether it's a harmful source, like a dirty bomb. http://www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/03/13/Science/Sounds.Of.Innovation-1684833.shtml?norewrite200611091703&sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com 2006-03-13 00:00:00 A group of University scientists recently developed a new hearing aid device which will allow users to hear a higher-quality sound than existing technology permits. http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2006/Feb06/r020606a 2006-02-06 00:00:00 A ribbon-like cochlear implant developed at the University of Michigan could greatly improve hearing for profoundly deaf patients, and simplify insertion to help surgeons minimize damage to healthy ear tissue. http://www.physorg.com/news10533.html 2006-02-03 00:00:00 Based on intellectual property from the Georgia Institute of Technology, EndoSure is the first implantable pressure sensor that combines wireless and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology to receive FDA clearance. http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51200651 2004-10-26 00:00:00 How do you get data out of a human body? This fascinating article describes the power, durability, and RF challenges of designing an embedded system that "users" swallow. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=31KISKWFGMFZEQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=18301655 1999-04-05 00:00:00 Conrad Yu has shrunk to portable size the gear used for real-time field analysis of gas and liquid samples. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer is turning conventional gas chromatography on its head with the portable unit, which can be carried to the sites of chemical-weapon or poisonous-gas contamination, hazardous chemical spills and crimes.