Month: February 2012

NSF CAREER Award 2012

February 29, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Xiangchun Xuan! He has won the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, for his project “Particle Magnetophoresis in Ferrofluid Microflows for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications” Magnetic field-induced particle manipulation is simple and cheap as compared to other techniques (e.g., electric, acoustic, and optical) that are applicable to microfluidic devices. It is non-invasive and free of fluid […]

Xiangchun Xuan receives University Research Grant

February 13, 2012

The University Research Grant Committee (URGC) recently selected to award funding to nine faculty out of 27 proposals submitted to the 2011-12 URCG program. Mechanical Engineering’s Dr. Xiangchun Xuan was one of the nine chosen and received a $10,000 grant for the study of “Electrical Characterization of Red Blood Cells with Applications to Malaria Diagnosis”.