Nipple replacement startup NovoThelium sweeps pitch competitions
Thursday, 21 September 2017
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- Published in Biomedical Engineering, COE Announcements
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UTSA Research awards seed funding to faculty members
Wednesday, 06 September 2017
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The Office of the Vice President for Research’s internal seed funding programs support UTSA’s research enterprise by awarding faculty members seed funding to obtain preliminary data that can be cited in applications for extramural funding and enhance the breadth of scholarly and creative activity taking place on campus. These grants also support new areas of
- Published in COE Announcements
AET Library moves to new location
Thursday, 31 August 2017
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Starting August 22, UTSA’s Applied Engineering and Technology (AET) Library opens in a new location on the first floor of the AET Building in Room 1.104. UTSA Libraries’ main campus satellite location has been successful since opening in 2010 as the first bookless library on a university campus. The new library will continue to offer
- Published in COE Announcements
UTSA ranks among nation’s top minority-serving institutions for federal science and engineering expenditures
Thursday, 17 August 2017
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The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) ranks No. 7 among the minority-serving institutions in the nation that received the most federal research obligations (expenditures) for science and engineering, according to updated data released by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2015. In FY 2015, UTSA expended $23.3 million in federal funding
- Published in COE Announcements
Foundation work underway for Science and Engineering Building
Thursday, 17 August 2017
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June, The University of Texas at San Antonio broke ground on its $95 million Science and Engineering Building (SEB), the largest construction project in university history. The building is slated to open in June 2020. The 153,000 square foot building, which will be located on the Main Campus adjacent to the Biotechnology, Sciences and Engineering
- Published in COE Announcements
Mikayla Rahman has spirit for biomedical engineering
Thursday, 17 August 2017
by utsaengineer
Meet Mikayla Rahman. This UTSA Honors College student is balancing life as a biomedical engineering major and UTSA cheerleader. Rahman was born in China and was adopted when she was 13 months old. That’s when she moved to Colorado Springs to live with her new family. Rahman lived in Colorado for most of her life, but she
- Published in COE Announcements
NIST Funds twelve projects to make communities more resilient to disasters
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
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Using biological materials as flame retardants, defining the characteristics of soil liquefaction during earthquakes and collecting disaster data with aerial drones are among the twelve disaster resilience research projects awarded just over $6 million by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST). The University of Texas at San Antonio received $798,892 for research
- Published in COE Announcements
ELSS Conference poster competition
Tuesday, 15 August 2017
by utsaengineer
This year’s Engineering Lean Six Sigma (ELSS) conference is being held in Orlando, FL, and participants are invited to compete in the poster competition at the conference. The conference is taking place September 25-27, 2017, in Orlando, FL, and is hosted by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The 2017 ELSS Poster Session
- Published in COE Announcements
UTSA student start-up helps breast cancer survivors regenerate nipples
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
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UTSA graduate students, Bianca Cerqueira and Lauren Cornell ’12, are winning pitch competitions left and right with their new start-up, NovoThelium, which uses bioengineered scaffolds to allow women to regenerate a nipple after a mastectomy. “Right now, the best option for nipple reconstruction is to cut and suture the skin to create this little scar
- Published in Biomedical Engineering, COE Announcements
UTSA researchers close to using 3D printer to print organs
Friday, 12 May 2017
by utsaengineer
- Published in Biomedical Engineering, COE Announcements