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William P. King, a member of the Beckman 3D Micro- and Nanosystems group, has received the 2009 Bergles-Roshenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer. This award is given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to the top researcher in heat transfer under the age of 36. The award was given “for substantial contributions to the field of mechanical engineering through the development of nanometer-scale thermal processing and thermal measurement techniques, and the new physical insights made possible by these techniques.”
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John Rogers, a Beckman researcher and U. of I. professor of materials science, has found that droplets of fluid in fiber optic channels can increase the speeds of data-carrying photons. His micro-fluid optical fibers could be key to super-fast delivery of live and streaming multi-media.
Beckman Institute researcher Stephen Boppart has been developing an optical imaging system for assessing tissue that will provide real-time diagnostic capabilities in the operating room. After many years of technology development, laboratory testing, and clinical studies, the system has now shown its potential as a tool in the fight against breast cancer.
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