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Outstanding Young Engineers

06-02-10

Swaminathan Krishnan, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Geophysics, and David A. Boyd, Senior Research Fellow, are among 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers selected to participation in this year's National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. [Read Press Release]

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A New Take on Microbrewing

04-09-08

David Boyd, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, graduate student James Adleman, Demitri Psaltis, Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering, and David Goodwin, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, have crafted the world's tiniest still to concentrate scant amounts of micromolecules for easier detection. This device may help to overcome difficulties in tracking extremely low-abundance molecular biomarkers, which can indicate disease. [Caltech Press Release]

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