Engineering

Engineering science's Huang wins two grants

Tony Jun Huang, the James Henderson assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics, was awarded two national grants.

Huang was awarded a four-year, $1.3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant for "NanoElectroMechanical Systems Using Light-Driven Molecular Shuttles as Active Nanostructures." Huang is collaborating on the grant with Chung-Chiun Liu, the Wallace R. Persons professor of sensor technology and control at Case Western Reserve University; Fraser Stoddart, the Fred Kavli chair at the University of California, Los Angeles; and William Goddard, the Charles and Mary Ferkel professor of chemistry, materials science and applied physics at the California Institute of Technology.

The NSF NIRT program is designed to foster collaborative research and education in nanostructures, nanosystems and the long-term societal change associated with these innovations.

Huang also was awarded a Grace Woodward Grant for Collaborative Research Engineering and Medicine for "Nanoporous Polymer Structure-Based Biosensor Array for the Detection of RNA-Protein Interactions." Huang is collaborating with James Connor, professor of neurosurgery at the College of Medicine, on the grant.

The Grace Woodward grants were created from a gift to the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine from Grace Woodward, a longtime friend and supporter of the University. The grants offer seed money for projects by teams of engineers and doctors. Each grant is approximately $25,000 and lasts for one year.

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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