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Faculty News - April 2019

Prabhat Baniya and Kathleen Melde

Pushing the Envelope of Chip-to-Chip Communication

ECE professor and grad student get tiny chips to do big jobs using reconfigurable antennas.
Joshua Olson, Veysi Demir and Nasser Peyghambarian in the lab

UA Startup to Bring Holographic Video Glasses Into View

Engineering and optical sciences professor forms an augmented reality tech company.
Doug Hockstad, Jennifer Barton and Dr. Robert C. Robbins

I-Squared Awards Ceremony Honors Campus Inventors

Engineers recognized by Tech Launch Arizona for creating devices to make the world a better place.
Marvin Slepian

Slepian Named 2019 Regents' Professor

Cardiologist and engineering professor recognized for distinguished accomplishments in teaching, scholarship, research and entrepreneurship.
Two people standing in front of an ivy-covered archway on the UA campus.

A UA-Powered Science Fair Success

Ask and you shall receive: High school freshman turns to UA researcher for help with her project on aerosol particles.
A colorful simulation of a truck running into a wall with a person inside. On the right side of the image is a zoomed-in version of the driver's brain.

A Step Toward Determining Which Car Crashes Cause Traumatic Brain Injury – And Which Don’t

UA researchers are developing a tool to calculate the likelihood of traumatic brain injury after a vehicle collision.
Marvin J. Slepian stands in front of a Sarver Heart Center sign wearing a lab coat

2019 da Vinci Fellow: Dr. Marvin J. Slepian

Researcher recognized for achievements at the intersection of engineering, medicine and entrepreneurship.
Photo taken from inside an airplane flying above the cloud layer.

Probing Wildfire Smoke Plumes Up Close

Using data collected by planes flying directly through clouds of wildfire smoke, a team of UA researchers is investigating the impact of aerosols on the weather and public health.

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