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these spacers work like diffusers and allow the patient more time to draw the entire dose of medication into their lungs moreno said and when you're suffering from respiratory illness this may be very important dan metzen system director of pharmacy services at houston methodist said diffusers are currently in short su... |
metzen said nebulizers could also be used to administer the medication but metered dose inhalers are preferred due to a concern that nebulizers used by patients with covid-19 in the hospital could spread the virus although the concept being utilized for the diffusers is not new this is among the first times it has been... |
houston methodist has a partnership with the texas a&m college of medicine and college of engineering through the enmed program an integrated educational and research medical program with a focus on innovation dr roderic pettigrew executive dean of enmed said this rapid response by moreno and his team to develop a use-... |
twelve research projects have been chosen for funding as part of the texas a&m university system national laboratories offices multi-element program to increase engagement between researchers from the a&m system and the los alamos national laboratory (lanl) researchers could apply for funding in two different categorie... |
today the texas a&m university system announced the name of its landmark five-acre campus in houston texas at the prominent intersection of holcombe blvd and main st near the texas medical center setting a new standard for collaboration in engineering medicine research and education is the first all-new mixed-use campu... |
the texas a&m university system is one of the largest systems of higher education in the nation with a budget of $63 billion the system is a statewide network of 11 universities; a comprehensive health science center; eight state agencies including the texas division of emergency management; and the rellis campus the t... |
innovation was on full display this week at the sixth annual texas a&m new ventures competition (tnvc) hosted by the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) due to safety concerns amid the covid-19 pandemic organizers shifted the event to a virtual platform dr albert huangs company allotrope medical took home t... |
simple toys to custom prosthetic parts are made from plastic which is also a popular 3d printing material however these printed parts are mechanically weak a flaw caused by the imperfect bonding between the individual printed layers that make up 3d-printed parts researchers at texas a&m university in collaboration with... |
the primary author of this research is dr c brandon sweeney a former texas a&m materials science and engineering student in greens laboratory he is the head of research and development and co-founder at essentium inc the research team also collaborated with dr david staack associate professor in the j mike walker ‘66 d... |
spoiling foods souring wine and worsening wounds have a common culprit a process called oxidation although the ill effects of these chemical reactions can be curtailed by the action of antioxidants creating a sturdy platform capable of providing prolonged antioxidant activity is an ongoing challenge researchers at texa... |
however oxidative reactions can be kept in control by the action of antioxidants these compounds readily combine with ambient oxygen or donate electrons to neutralize charged radicals of the many antioxidants a molecule found in red wine called tannic acid is particularly attractive because it is also antibacterial and... |
dr roderic i pettigrew a phd and md who is the robert a welch professor in the college of medicine and professor of biomedical engineering in the college of engineering at texas a&m university has been elected into the american academy of arts and sciences the honorific academy one of the nations oldest was founded in ... |
a typical nuclear reactor uses only a small fraction of its fuel rod to produce power before the energy-generating reaction naturally terminates what is left behind is an assortment of radioactive elements including unused fuel that are disposed of as nuclear waste in the united states although certain elements recycle... |
our recycling strategy can be easily integrated into a chemical flow sheet for industrial-scale implementation said dr jonathan burns research scientist in the texas a&m engineering experiment stations nuclear engineering and science center in other words the reaction can be repeated multiple times to maximize fuel rec... |
the basis of energy production in nuclear reactors is thermonuclear fission in this reaction a heavy nucleus usually uranium when hit by subatomic particles called neutrons becomes unstable and tears apart into smaller lighter elements however uranium can absorb neutrons and get progressively heavier to form elements l... |
the texas a&m university system national laboratories office (nlo) and los alamos national laboratory have formed a collaborative research effort to make extremely large data sets indexable and more easily searchable we are excited to be partnering with our colleagues at texas a&m on this important and potentially game... |
dr le xie a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at texas a&m university and assistant director of energy digitization at the texas a&m energy institute is working with his research team to collaborate on a project to release a first-of-its-kind cross-domain open-access data hub to track t... |
the texas a&m energy institute pursues and supports new approaches for multi-disciplinary energy research education and external partnerships these approaches cross departmental and college boundaries and address all facets of the energy landscape that naturally connect engineering sciences technologies economics law a... |
the united states army research laboratory is lending support to a texas a&m university research project investigating potential improvement of ballistic performance of armor materials the project led by dr justin wilkerson assistant professor and james j cain 51 faculty fellow ii in the j mike walker 66 department of ... |
atoms are arranged in a highly ordered pattern referred to as a crystal lattice and if an atom is missing from a perfect lattice structure this defect is called a vacancy at high temperatures the vacancies can come together forming vacancy clusters wilkerson said a large concentration of vacancies in a material may be ... |
the texas a&m university systems george h w bush combat development complex (bcdc) under construction at the rellis campus is the result of a partnership with the army futures command the bcdc will bring together academic researchers the military and the private sector for collaboration demonstrations and high-tech tes... |
a team of researchers led by the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university is looking to help scientists combat the secondary effects of covid-19 using artificial intelligence (ai) by participating in an open challenge called ai cures the team is led by dr shuiwang ji principal investigator... |
while data specific to covid-19 is still limited today the abdul latif jameel clinic for machine learning has released a new screening dataset and is reporting current results the ai cures challenge started in march and dr shuiwang ji's research team began work on the project in may their results are currently ranked f... |
a grant to help train military service members in texas and north carolina for biopharmaceutical manufacturing careers has been approved by the national institute for innovation in manufacturing biopharmaceuticals (niimbl) the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) and several educational and industry partners... |
the national center for therapeutics manufacturing (nctm) is a first-of-its-kind multi-disciplinary workforce education institution and biopharmaceutical manufacturing center located at texas a&m university in college station texas the nctms workforce development mission is to provide education training and outreach pr... |
the federal government has reserved a high-tech biomanufacturing facility here for mass production of a covid-19 vaccine as part of a program discussed monday by president donald trump the new federal task order is reserving production capacity at one of the college station facilities to mass manufacture vaccines throu... |
operation warp speed aims to begin delivering millions of doses of covid-19 vaccines by the end of the year if the us food and drug administration determines candidates are safe and effective novavax is being funded by the government to complete late-stage clinical development including a pivotal phase 3 clinical trial... |
high blood pressure is the single biggest risk factor for heart disease stroke and other health problems the only way to know if youre at risk is to have it checked often while one in three american adults has high blood pressure about 20% of people are unaware that they have it because it is largely symptomless resear... |
nighttime blood pressure is actually a really good indicator for the health of the cardiovascular system jafari said at nighttime typically the body itself shows its true behavior you and i can get stressed out we can have a relaxing time and you could be very active physically right all those specific stimuli will imp... |
while jafari and his research team have been working on their device for the past three years with a previous nih grant with the new funding they will begin two new phases of the project at texas a&m where they will create novel techniques and methods will refine their prototype design and continue testing itthe next v... |
as the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge worldwide there is an urgent need for anything that can bring us closer to a vaccine or treatment that will protect people from future infections sars-cov-2 (also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is the virus that infects cells and causes the coron... |
nctms strategy is derived from what happened with dr kent brantly who survived ebola then donated his plasma to help others recover as well doctors and scientists identified antibodies in his blood that could recognize the ebola virus and prevent it from multiplying further in patients similarly nctm researchers are ma... |
the national center for therapeutics manufacturing is a first-of-its-kind multi-disciplinary workforce education institution and biopharmaceutical manufacturing center located at texas a&m university in college station texas the nctms workforce development mission is to provide education training and outreach programs ... |
dr amir asadi and his team have developed a new manufacturing process for hybrid polymer composites – a vital component in the aerospace automotive marine and defense industries this new process will produce super-strong composites to be used in load-bearing mechanical components in various industry sectors across the ... |
unfortunately the current cfrps are expensive – both in carbon production cost and time needed to manufacture them – and have reached a plateau in their strength capabilities additionally while studies suggest that integrating carbon nanotubes into cfrps can overcome these strength limitations the process includes inva... |
along with reducing the time and expense associated with making composites asadi's process opens the door for more customizable materialsright now we have very large and bulky materials and we start to cut them and make something out of them " said asadi "if we achieve this process successfully we can start to build co... |
in 2020 global research and development (r&d) investment reached $24 trillion and a significant part of that r&d is performed in the academic laboratories in universities and research centers the texas a&m engineering experiment station (tees) with its international partners is launching a webinar series to bring toget... |
the coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic has led to such a stark shortage of personal protective equipment (ppe) that health care professionals have resorted to wearing trash bags as makeshift gowns in hopes of mitigating these obstacles texas a&m university researchers dr david staack and dr matt pharr from the college of ... |
the radiated masks ended up going from filtering 95% of particles 300 nanometers in size to only filtering between 50% and 60% of particles a few hundred nanometers in size said staack the sallie and don davis 61 career development professor in mechanical engineering thats still a lot better than a homemade mask made f... |
staack pharr and pillai teamed up using the food technology facility for electron beam and space food research and the plasma engineering and non-equilibrium processing laboratory on the texas a&m campus they also referenced research from dr mike moreno dr john criscione and dr sarah brooks at texas a&m showing that t-... |
col rosendo ross guieb has been named as the first executive director of the george hw bush combat development complex (bcdc) effective today guieb moves from the senior staff of army futures command (afc) to the new role of managing the bcdc a complex being built on the 2 000-acre rellis campus in bryan texas to help ... |
to learn more about guieb and his new role with the bush combat development complex see the announcement about guieb's appointment as executive director and the story of his background on the bcdc website |
inspired by the same modeling and mathematical laws used to predict the spread of pandemics researchers at texas a&m university have created a model to accurately forecast the spread and recession process of floodwaters in urban road networks with this new approach researchers have created a simple and powerful mathema... |
if you look at the flood monitoring system of harris county it can show you if a channel is overflowing now but theyre not able to predict anything about the next four hours or next eight hours also the existing flood monitoring systems provide limited information about the propagation of flooding in road networks and ... |
as new infectious diseases emerge and spread one of the best shots against novel pathogens is finding new medicines or vaccines but before drugs can be used as potential cures they have to be painstakingly screened for composition safety and purity among other things thus there is an increasing demand for technologies ... |
typical benchtops for raman spectroscopy contain an assortment of optical instruments including lenses and gratings for manipulating light these free-space optical components take a lot of space and are a barrier for many applications where chemical sensing is required within tiny spaces or locations that are hard to r... |
to create the optical waveguide the researchers employed a technique used by industry for drawing circuit patterns on silicon wafers first using ultraviolet light they spun a light-sensitive material called nr9 onto a surface made of silica next by using ionized gas molecules they bombarded and coated aluminum nitride ... |
lin noted since their optical waveguides have very fine width many of them can be loaded onto a single photonic chip this architecture he said is very conducive to high-throughput real-time chemical sensing needed for drug development our optical waveguide design provides a novel platform for monitoring the chemical co... |
the precise advanced technologies and health systems for underserved populations (paths-up) engineering research center was funded by the national science foundation in 2017 paths-up aims to change the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary and cost-effective technologies and sys... |
dr tracy hammond professor in the department of computer science and engineering at texas a&m university was recently named the director of the institute for engineering education and innovation (ieei) the appointment is effective sept 1 and she will devote 40% of her effort to lead the ieei i am thrilled at the opport... |
the institute for engineering education and innovation is a texas a&m university system and texas a&m engineering experiment station wide institute that initiates engineering education research with kindergartners through 12th graders undergraduates graduate students professionals and faculty the institutes research he... |
the covid-19 pandemic resulted in a sudden shift in operations focused largely on maintaining established and essential businesses which appeared to leave many innovators and startup companies on their own to find new ways to continue to network secure funding and track market trends even in the midst of a global pande... |
tnvc assists deep technology startups at a critical stage of commercialization with funding and connections and it also provides an easy way for early stage investors to identify and fund texas best startups taking these science and engineering technologies from lab to market not only benefits society with cutting edge... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's (tees) clean energy incubator has received a $50 000 grant from the wells fargo innovation incubator (in2) as part of its program to help startup companies retain staff and cope with the impacts due to covid-19 wells fargo in2 is awarding $900 000 to help experts in agtech... |
the clean energy incubator encourages commercialization of clean energy technologies from tees and texas clean energy technology refers to any energy-related technology that improves efficiency reduces waste or has a favorable environmental impact during the last six-month reporting period client companies reported $8 ... |
recent discoveries made by researchers at texas a&m university could change the way ovarian cancer is understood and treated dr abhishek jain assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering and the department of medical physiology in the college of medicine collaborated with researchers from the departm... |
in an interview with the international society on thrombosis and hemostasis jain explained that "it basically is a microenvironment where ovarian tumor cells can be co-cultured along with their blood vessels and then they can interact with blood cells once we learn about these interactions we can then move forward to l... |
the texas a&m university systems george hw bush combat development complex will soon feature the nations largest enclosed hypersonic testing facility as well as an outdoor range for trying out autonomous combat vehicles today the texas a&m university system board of regents approved spending a total of $603 million for... |
the texas a&m university systems george h w bush combat development complex (bcdc) located on the 2 000-acre rellis campus is the result of a partnership with the us army futures command the bcdc will bring together academic researchers the military and the private sector for collaboration demonstrations and high-tech ... |
the built environment where someone lives (private) or works (public) influences a persons daily life and can help or hinder their mental health this is especially true for those with mental health conditions such as ptsd or post-traumatic stress disorder researchers in the wm michael barnes 64 department of industrial... |
natures blueprint for the human limb is a carefully layered structure with stiff bone wrapped in layers of different soft tissue like muscle and skin all bound to each other perfectly achieving this kind of sophistication using synthetic materials to build biologically inspired robotic parts or multicomponent complex m... |
although previous studies have manipulated the density of crosslinks to make elastomers stiffer the resulting change in mechanical strength was generally permanent crosslinks are like stitches in a piece of cloth: the more stitches you have the stiffer the material gets and vice versa said sukhishvili but instead of ha... |
the researchers noted that the temperatures at which the crosslinkers dissociate or unclick from the prepolymer chains are relatively the same for different stiffness levels this property is useful for 3d printing with these materials regardless of whether they are soft or hard the materials can be melted at the same t... |
in the future the researchers plan to increase the functionality of their new materials by amplifying its multifaceted properties outlined in the current studyright now we can easily achieve around 80% self-healing at room temperature but we would like to reach 100% also we want to make our materials responsive to othe... |
dr gerard coté director of the center for remote health technologies and systems texas a&m regents professor and holder of the james j cain professorship i received the walston chubb award for innovation from sigma xi the scientific research honor society i am honored that i was considered to receive the chubb award fr... |
the center for remote health technologies and systems is developing breakthrough remote health technologies algorithms and health analytics as well as using advanced systems engineering to solve the global health grand challenges and enable healthy living these powerful advances are not only helping to answer the criti... |
imagine needing a part to fix something in your home but not being able to go out to the store to get it like those unable to go to the store to get something for a home repair project astronauts and inhabitants of future space missions will face a similar dilemma while living in space habitats or will they researchers... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's early research efforts in space contributed to texas a&m becoming a space-grant institution in 1989 meaning they "participate in nasas aeronautics and space projects by supporting and enhancing science and engineering education research and public outreach efforts" |
researchers in the us army combat capabilities development command's army research laboratory (arl) are working to develop a drone with the ability to morph while in flight to better fit its mission for example shortening and lengthening the wing for efficiency and speed to begin their work they turned to the expertise... |
fluid-structure interaction in morphing vehicles is much more complicated because motion is intentional " hartl added "so that's why we leaned into this problem; we needed a better way to solve fluid-structure interaction traditionally fluid-structure interaction is analyzed by running individual fluid and structural c... |
hartl especially values this collaboration because it illustrates what is possible by having the army futures command and arl integrated with texas a&m this algorithm and idea are only a couple years old and the team was able to harvest it and use it because they were here " hartl said "they were the first ones to hear... |
researchers from the texas a&m university college of engineering will play a key role in a consortium sponsored by natura resources llc to build an advanced research reactor in the state of texas the $305 million effort to design and license a research reactor is a collaboration with three other universities: abilene c... |
dr tony hill natura director of product development said we are incredibly pleased and honored to sponsor this remarkable multi-disciplinary collaboration of talented researchers – physicists engineers chemists and their students – to support our vision to develop advanced energy systems that are inherently safe sustai... |
texas a&ms department of nuclear engineering was established in 1958 and strives to serve the state nation and global community by nurturing nuclear engineering professionals and leaders to meet the complex challenges associated with the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and enhancing global security it is the largest pr... |
dr roderic pettigrew has written an essay humanity binds us which will be included in the fall edition of the bridge the flagship quarterly publication of the national academy of engineering the issue will be online mid-september and is dedicated to the memory of us congressman john lewis who passed away july 17 the es... |
two faculty members from the texas a&m university college of engineering have been recognized by sigma xi the scientific research honor society for their exemplary achievements in science and engineering they will be recognized during the societys national meeting in november which will be held virtually nov 5-8 the tw... |
us army secretary ryan d mccarthy visited the rellis campus today to see construction progress at the texas a&m university systems george hw bush combat development complex the george hw bush combat development complex (bcdc) will be used to modernize the us military leading researchers will work with warriors on high-... |
the george hw bush combat development complex (bcdc) located on the 2 000-acre rellis campus is the result of a partnership between the us army futures command (afc) and the texas a&m university system texas a&m engineering experiment station and the state of texas the $200 million complex will bring together researche... |
dr roderic pettigrew texas a&m universitys chief executive officer of the engineering health program and executive dean for engineering medicine will receive a prestigious lifetime achievement award from the national science board (nsb) pettigrew will be presented with the vannevar bush award which is considered one of... |
dr chandler benjamin and his lab determine how to design materials so that they behave predictably in certain situations using material characterization and nonlinear models one of the main areas of benjamins research focuses on harnessing these models to help health care providers combat cardiovascular diseases affect... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's health care market segment advances research in the key areas of medicine health care-related technology and life sciences using a multi-disciplinary approach our strengths include bioinformatics computational biology and systems biology for agricultural environmental and ... |
research led by dr wonmuk hwang has led to better understanding how components of the bodys immune system detect intruding or damaged cells which could lead to novel approaches to viral and cancer treatments hwang associate professor in the department of biomedical engineering at texas a&m university has recently publi... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's health care market segment advances research in the key areas of medicine health care-related technology and life sciences using a multi-disciplinary approach our strengths include bioinformatics computational biology and systems biology for agricultural environmental and ... |
dr jens figlus associate professor in the department of ocean engineering at texas a&m university at galveston and a team of researchers are creating better designed hybrid coastal structures to safeguard coastal communities exposed to flooding and destruction in light of rising sea levels eroding coastlines and devast... |
working with the coastal engineering lab the center of texas beaches and shores and researchers from other institutions such as the stevens institute of technology and delft university of technology in the netherlands figlus is testing how the combination of sand dunes and hard structures can best weather a storm the i... |
research producing data-backed designs and guidelines for the construction of hybrid coastal structures has been lacking to fill this vital gap figlus and his team have conducted physical model tests and simulations utilizing the haynes coastal engineering wave basin in college station the team built a hybrid dune cons... |
one primary objective of such a structure is to reduce the risk of flooding by limiting wave overtopping or the amount of water that goes over the structure this included testing what physical properties – such as slope and height of the dune – produce the best outcome and resilience against storm surge and wave impact... |
earthquakes hurricanes and tsunamis can have a catastrophic impact on infrastructuredr petros sideris assistant professor in the zachry department of civil and environmental engineering at texas a&m university has been awarded a national science foundation (nsf) grant to advance the fundamental understanding and comput... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's infrastructure market segment addresses obstacles related to all aspects of land and sea organizational structures and facilities our strengths include infrastructure renewal advanced materials and structural systems deep-water platforms slender and large body hydrodynamic... |
in 1967 prominent aerospace engineer tn edelbaum wanted to know how many velocity impulses – and in what direction and at what time – must be used to allow a spacecraft to fly from its starting point to reach a specified destination with a minimum total impulse its an issue that arises in virtually every space flight m... |
the hagler institute for advanced study provides a catalyst to enrich the intellectual climate and educational experiences at texas a&m university it is a mechanism for attracting world-class talent to the texas a&m and is driven by nominations of national academy and nobel prize-caliber researchers that align with exi... |
over the last few years there has been a significant increase in the use of twitter to share updates seek help and report emergencies during a disaster social media platforms can be instrumental for keeping track of events like damage to personal property or injuries during natural disasters however algorithms keeping ... |
what if you could provide emergency responders with technology that could not only potentially save lives but make their work more precise and efficient at the same time through the use of novel human augmentation technologies this concept called learner is on its way to becoming a reality thanks to an award from the n... |
the neuroergonomics lab examines the mind-motor-machine nexus to understand quantify and predict human performance when interacting with emerging technologies (unmanned collaborative and wearable systems) in safety-critical extreme environments (eg emergency response space exploration oil and gas) the lab's research ad... |
a researcher at texas a&m university is launching a project to better understand how light can affect neurons in the brain dr alex walsh assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering recently received a grant through the air force office of scientific researchs (afsor) young investigator research prog... |
walsh said one challenge that has limited the broader field of studying infrared lights impact on cells is that optimizing parameters is difficult everyone uses different laser sources wavelengths and pulse parameters so comparing studies across different labs is challenging walsh said her lab has applied for a grant t... |
the texas a&m engineering experiment station's health care market segment advances research in the key areas of medicine health care-related technology and life sciences using a multi-disciplinary approach our strengths include bioinformatics computational biology and systems biology for agricultural environmental and ... |
in a new study researchers at texas a&m university have described their novel plant-based energy storage device that could charge even electric cars within a few minutes in the near future furthermore they said their devices are flexible lightweight and cost-effective integrating biomaterials into energy storage device... |
past research has shown that lignin a natural polymer that glues wood fibers together used with metal oxides enhances the electrochemical properties of electrodes however liang said there have been few studies looking into combining manganese dioxide and lignin to leverage both of their useful propertiesto create their... |
upon testing their newly designed green electrode they found that their supercapacitor had very stable electrochemical properties in particular the specific capacitance or the ability of the device to store an electrical charge changed little even after thousands of cycles of charging and discharging also for an optima... |
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