A North Dakota State University graduate student is part of a team developing a plastic that can be turned back into its original molecules and then re-made into a different plastic product. NDSU doctoral student Ramya Raghunathan has been invited to present her research at the prestigious Gordon Research Seminar on Photochemistry to be held July 18-19, 2015 at Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts.
Stephen O’Rourke, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a $435,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to conduct cardiovascular research.
Researcher Bin Guo at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is receiving a four-year $1.35 million research project grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to develop a targeted treatment for colorectal cancer.
Seed grants from Sanford Health will fund North Dakota State University research about protein and muscular health with aging; about the role of sleep in weight management; and about the effects of flaxseed on proinflammatory and anti-oxident biomarkers.
A group of international researchers published in Functional Ecology found that compared with early birds, late risers are more likely to be cuckolded. The study’s lead author, Dr. Timothy Greives of North Dakota State University, Fargo, said they found that early risers used that time to mate with birds not in their social pair. Melatonin-implanted birds did not sire as many birds and later cared for nestlings fathered by an early riser in their nest. Study results provide insight into the evolution of the body clock.
Peter Bergholz, Ph.D., assistant professor in Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, and Wei Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor in Computer Science at North Dakota State University, Fargo, each are receiving five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Bergholz and his research team will sequence the genomes of 1,200 bacteria and look for associations between changes in the genome and changes in the soil environment. Jin's research will be conducted to develop smarter, more efficient methods to search for connections across documents in a large-scale setting.
While the phrase “an apple a day” is a popular saying, a new study suggests that pears as part of a healthy diet could play a role in helping to manage type 2 diabetes and diabetes-induced hypertension. The results of research published in Food Research International show potential health benefits of Bartlett and Starkrimson pears.
Andrew Croll, assistant professor of physics at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is receiving a $305,046 three-year award from the U.S Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The competitive award is being made through the prestigious Young Investigator Research Program. Croll’s research proposal is titled “Crumpled and Prescriptively Folded Polymer Films for Advanced Lightweight Materials.”
The North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute has named Eakalak Khan as director of the Institute, effective March 1. He will succeed G. Padmanabhan who served as long-time director of the organization which promotes the education and training of water resources research professionals attending the state’s universities, as well as other related research activities.
North Dakota State University, Fargo, and Sanford Health will conduct collaborative research on human nutrition, weight management and other dietary-related areas as part of a seed-grant initiative developed between the two organizations. The research will address key objectives of the Profile by Sanford® program. Sanford will provide $250,000 annually for five years for the seed-grant program.
A technology developed at North Dakota State University, Fargo, creates precise in-the-ground measurement and monitoring of soil and crop conditions which could provide opportunities for greater yields. The technology also has led to a new start-up company. The c2sensor corp., based in the NDSU Technology Incubator, has concluded a license agreement with the NDSU Research Foundation (NDSU/RF) for the precision agriculture technology.
Plastic populates our world through everything from electronics to packaging and vehicles. Once discarded, it resides almost permanently in landfills and oceans. A discovery by researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, holds scientific promise that could lead to a new type of plastic that can be broken down when exposed to a specific type of light and is reduced back to molecules, which could then be used to create new plastic. The research by the Center for Sustainable Materials Science is published in Angewandte Chemie.
Developers from the Center for Sensors, Communications and Control (CSCC) at North Dakota State University, Fargo, played a role in the development of a product featured on Henry Ford's Innovation Nation.TrackR bravo from Phone Halo allows you to keep track of things via your smartphone with small, coin-sized item-tracking devices for your keys, pets, wallet, and more.
Feeding the world’s energy appetite may take innovative approaches in the future. A book by Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is the first text of its kind to examine methods to bring offshore wind energy on shore to power industry, homes and businesses. “Multi-terminal Direct Current Grids: Modeling, Analysis, and Control,” is published by the Wiley-IEEE Press.
The amount of road dust generated with energy development and its potential impacts are among the questions North Dakota State University researchers are examining in the Bakken region of North Dakota. Five research proposals have been selected to receive seed funding to research the impact of road dust issues in areas of energy development across western North Dakota.
A chromium-free paint developed through research at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and licensed to Elinor Specialty Coatings, Inc., is a 2014 TechConnect National Innovation Awardee. Elinor licensed the technology through the NDSU Research Foundation, and developed Aluma45 MgRPTM, a chromium-free magnesium-rich primer for use on aluminum-alloys and composites in ship, automotive and construction materials manufacturing. The TechConnect National Innovation Awards selects top early-stage innovations from around the world through an industry-review process of the top 20 percent of annually submitted technologies at the TechConnect National Innovation Summit.
Parental advice once given to college-bound students that they should “Phone home” may not be followed by today’s busy students. Their fundamental communication question today: Do I call or text? New communication research at North Dakota State University, Fargo, investigates how college students decide which method to use when contacting their parents. Study results show most students in almost daily contact with parents and efficiency is a determining factor when it comes to technology choice.
Faces fascinate. We look for familiar or friendly ones in a crowd. And video game developers and movie animators strive to create faces that look real rather than fake. Determining how our brains decide what makes a face “human” and not artificial is a question Dr. Benjamin Balas of North Dakota State University, Fargo, and of the Center for Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience, studies in his lab. New research by Balas and NDSU graduate Christopher Tonsager, published online in the London-based journal Perception, shows that it takes more than eyes to make a face look human.
The North Dakota State University Research Foundation (NDSU/RF) announced today that it has concluded a license agreement with Elinor Specialty Coatings, Fargo, N.D., for a breakthrough hexavalent chromium-free coatings technology. The patented coatings technology protects aluminum alloys, such as those found in vehicle and ship parts, or in vehicles made entirely from aluminum. The licensing agreement gives Elinor Specialty Coatings exclusive rights in marine and automotive markets for the trademarked Aluma45-M and Aluma45-A coatings technologies.
Valspar Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of paints and coatings, and North Dakota State University (NDSU) have announced two new scholarship programs to provide opportunities for students studying coatings and polymeric materials at NDSU.
A new study by researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND USA and the Universidad de Costa Rica shows that the furled leaves of Heliconia and Calathea plants where Spix’s disc-winged bats make their home actually help to amplify and transmit the social calls of the bats. The findings of Dr. Erin Gillam of NDSU and Dr. Gloriana Chaverri appear in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Cogi® (Co’ jee) and North Dakota State University, Fargo, announced that they have signed a research and development agreement through North Dakota’s Centers of Excellence (COE) program. Release of Cogi®’s new Android App is the first of many projects planned in partnership with North Dakota State University.
Bobcat Company has pledged its continued support of research and development activities conducted in tandem with North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo. Bobcat will match $2 for every $1 provided by a grant through North Dakota’s Centers of Excellence program, an initiative that pairs research and development hubs across the state’s university and college campuses with private companies in an effort to stimulate greater economic growth.
North Dakota EPSCoR, South Dakota EPSCoR and four universities in North Dakota and South Dakota have been awarded a $6 million grant to establish the Dakota Bioprocessing Consortium (DakotaBioCon) and conduct collaborative research. The group's focus is renewable replacements for petrochemicals. The National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR) has awarded funding for North Dakota State University, the University of North Dakota, South Dakota State University and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Kelly A. Rusch, Ph.D., professor, researcher and former administrator at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, has been hired as vice president for research and creative activities at North Dakota State University.
Whether damaged by injury, disease or age, your body can’t create new bone, but maybe science can. Researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, are making strides in tissue engineering, designing scaffolds that may lead to ways to regenerate bone. Published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, the research of Dr. Kalpana Katti, Dr. Dinesh Katti and graduate student Avinash Ambre includes a novel method that uses nanosized clays to make scaffolds to mineralize bone minerals such as hydroxyapatite.
Two national awards received by North Dakota State University professors will bring a combined $1.6 million to biochemistry and to plant pathology research programs at NDSU, Fargo, and provide additional research opportunities for students. Stuart Haring, Ph.D., assistant professor in biochemistry, and Robert Brueggeman, Ph.D., assistant professor in plant pathology at NDSU, will each receive five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Research teams at North Dakota State University, Fargo, have developed a method to embed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in paper, which could help combat document counterfeiting, and have developed antennaless RFID tags for use on metal. Both teams of researchers are presenting their technology advances at conferences from April 30 to May 2 in Orlando, Fla. Dr. Val Marinov will present research at RFID Journal LIVE! and Cherish Bauer-Reich and Layne Berge are presenting at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on RFID, highlighting the NDSU technology breakthroughs.
Small, with power-packed potential. A patent-pending technology to produce nanospheres developed by a research team at North Dakota State University, Fargo, could enable advances across multiple industries, including electronics, manufacturing, and biomedical sectors.
Dr. Khang Hoang has joined the North Dakota State University Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) as a research scientist. His expertise includes condensed-matter theory and computational materials science, with major interests in theory and modeling of advanced materials for energy-related applications, using first-principles density-functional theory calculations and Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations.
North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, Calif., announced that they have entered into a memorandum of agreement to collaborate on research and development projects involving computational-based modeling and simulation for energy and energy-related applications. NDSU President Dean Bresciani, and LLNL Director Dr. Penrose Albright finalized the agreement, which was announced by U.S. Senator John Hoeven at a signing ceremony at NDSU on Dec. 14.
New research out of North Dakota State University, Fargo, and Texas A&M shows that something as simple as the body position of babies while they learn plays a critical role in their cognitive development. “Posture Support Improves Object Individuation in Infants,” co-authored by Dr. Rebecca J. Woods of NDSU and Dr. Teresa Wilcox of Texas A&M, is published in the journal Developmental Psychology®.
Initial results of clay samples from western North Dakota show varying percentages of alumina content, a finding of interest to the North Dakota Geological Survey that commissioned the study. Scientists in a lab at North Dakota State University’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), Fargo, are completing analysis of the clay, often referred to as kaolin, which could eventually play a role in proppants used for hydraulic fracturing in North Dakota oil exploration.
Biomedical researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, (NDSU) have received a $4.9 million, five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for new strategies for targeting protease (pro’ tee aze) in disease (Grant No.: 1P30GM103332-01). The Phase III funding provides continuing support for a competitive biomedical center at NDSU, focused on fighting diseases such as cancer, asthma, hypertension and arthritis.
A technology developed at North Dakota State University, Fargo, creates performance- driven biocomposite materials by incorporating agricultural by-products into plastics for a wide range of engineering applications. The technology also has led to a new start-up company set to serve a spectrum of markets. c2renew corp., a start-up company based in Colfax, N.D., announced today that it has concluded a license agreement with the NDSU Research Foundation (NDSU/RF) for the green technology.
When it comes to research, scientists often generate oceans of data, which can create challenges to capture, store, analyze and understand. Standard computer systems cannot handle what is known as “big data”— high-volume, high-velocity data sets. The National Science Foundation, in a competitive grant process, has awarded North Dakota State University a $400,000 grant over three years to create a Data-Intensive Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education at NDSU, Fargo.
Svetlana Kilina, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a $750,000 five-year award from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Dr. Kilina’s research occurs at the intersection of renewable energy, high-performance computing, nanotechnology and chemistry.
Sivaguru (Siva) Jayaraman, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a three-year, $429,500 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research outlined in his proposal titled “Light Induced Enantiospecific Chiral Transfer in Solution.”
This is one smart egg. Talk about adjusting your internal clock. New research at North Dakota State University, Fargo, shows that some chicks can sense day length, even while they are still in the egg, which in turn, affects how they develop. Dr. Mark E. Clark, associate professor, and Dr. Wendy Reed, head of biological sciences at NDSU, found in their study that embryos in eggs appear to sense external environments and adjust how they develop. The research is being published in Functional Ecology, a British Ecological Journal, available in early view online.
A technology start-up company, Switch Incorporated, founded by North Dakota State University students, is a semifinalist in the ‘Smart Power, Green Grid and Energy Storage’ category of the Cleantech Open. Switch, an energy monitoring and automation software with a completely free and open interface, allows users to access and monitor energy consumption at their home or business with their computer or mobile phone.
If you’ve noticed that spring seems to be arriving earlier, forcing blooms to burst and leaves to unfurl sooner than expected, scientists may have found one of the reasons. An international research team that includes Steven Travers, assistant professor of biological sciences at North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D., USA, has shown that experiments underpredict how plants respond to climate change. The research, which included 22 institutions in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, is being published in an advance online issue of the journal Nature. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11014
Lakes have lifecycles of their own and results from more than two decades of research by North Dakota State University professor Malcolm Butler and his students are being used to help determine optimum ways to manage and restore a Minnesota lake managed for migratory waterfowl. Butler, professor of biological sciences at NDSU, is one of 10 co-authors contributing to “A 200-year perspective on alternative stable state theory and lake management from a biomanipulated shallow lake” being published in Ecological Applications.
Ergologistics, a start-up company at the North Dakota State University Research and Technology Park’s Technology Incubator, and creators of the electric hand truck Lift’n Buddy, has been named a Top 10 Innovator of 2012 by Food Logistics Magazine.
Many children are exposed to technology at an early age, but few are taught how to harness the power of technology to drive their own learning and their future. A team of North Dakota State University students works with elementary school students, using a free, open-source software platform called Sugar, which contains software applications that allow kids to explore math, language arts, science, social science and computer programming.
Geophysics researcher Cherish Bauer-Reich wants to look inside the sun. More accurately, she wants to simulate the sun to study plasma flows associated with sunspot cycles. The Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) at North Dakota State University provides the power for Bauer-Reich’s research. Scientists recently warned about a series of solar storms in early March, concerned that it could affect global positioning systems, power grids, satellites and airplane travel.
A major national grant received by a North Dakota State University computer science assistant professor will be used to help develop more effective methods to test software, enhance computer science curriculum, and provide opportunities for student researchers. Hyunsook Do, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science at NDSU, Fargo, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Scientists in a lab at North Dakota State University's Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), Fargo, are analyzing materials that could eventually play a role in North Dakota oil exploration. Clays from the state show early promise for potential use as a key material known as ceramic proppant,
A new study by a faculty member at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and an NDSU alumnus, found health magazines are more likely than general popular culture magazines to use powerless language, or language that lacks certainty or directness, when reporting new health information.
From innovative dental implants, to helping people with aphasia, or developing coatings for industry, students at North Dakota State University, Fargo, are being rewarded for their entrepreneurial efforts. Bison Microventure, a team of 15 NDSU students, won first place and $5,000 for their novel dental implant design as part of the Innovation Challenge ’12 at NDSU. A project involving aphasia therapy for professionals received a second-place award, and a student-designed coating system for ship hulls won third-place honors.
The North Dakota Centers of Excellence Commission has approved $320,000 to establish the Center for Technologically Innovative Products and Processes (CTIPP) at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Initially, the CTIPP will partner with industrial companies such as Mid-America Aviation, Amity Technology, and Arkema, Inc., assisting with product research, testing, evaluation and analysis.
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