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Exciting research presented at the UT Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium (FURS)! We’re thrilled to announce that Dillon Gee and Brandon Taylor recently shared their innovative research projects in oral presentations.

The Lung-on-a-Chip team at Fort Lewis College developed a novel fabrication method to produce a viable porous silicon biomembrane that mimics the functionality of the human interstitial space that separates the alveolar cells and the capillary cells where the gas exchange occurs in the lungs.

PEAQS students have begun to grow and characterize more than half a dozen new crystals, including CaFe2 4, Ba-doped CaFe2 4, CuBiz 4, MgCr204, BaFeGaO4, PdGa, and PiGa.

PEAQS hosted its first student retreat March 25-26th at CU Boulder.

The undergraduate researchers at Fort Lewis College developed a microscope and an optical signal detector circuit to quantify single bacterium in microdroplets from environmental water samples.

"I never realized how much this experience would make me a perfect fit for this career."

The undergraduate researchers at Fort Lewis College developed an optical system to quantify single bacterium from environmental water samples. To improve signal detection in their system, they developed a neural network, a method in artificial intelligence.

PEAQS undergraduates have been busy getting out into their local communities to get K12 students interested in STEM.

Claribel Acevedo-Velez, director of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez/University of Wisconsin-Madison Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) has been named one of this year’s STEM Luminaries in recognition of her scientific contributions by Great Minds in STEM, an organization that supports broad participation in STEM.

A partnership that began in 2017 between Navajo Technical University (NTU) and the U.S. National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University is providing Navajo students with new opportunities to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering while helping to address critical issues facing the Navajo Nation.