Press Coverage 2008

11/18/2008
Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP and other local media outlets run an Associated Press story on Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi's lead alternative for electronics.

11/10/2008
The Engineer features the Space Systems Lab.

11/10/2008
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review profiles aerospace engineering student Cassandra Alberding.

11/7/2008
The Chronicle of Higher Ed features Prof. Jaydev Desai's robotic cancer treatment research. Related video is available here.

10/27/2008
The Baltimore Sun covers the appointment of Darryll Pines as dean and profiles this year's Innovation Hall of Fame inductee.

10/25/2008
WTTG Fox 5 in Washington features a heart device created by bioengineering department benefactor Robert E. Fishell. [no longer available]

10/24/2008
ME Assistant Professor Sarah Bergbreiter participates in a podcast about jumping micro-robots for the Robots Podcast and Community. [downloads an MP3 file]

10/21/2008
Popular Mechanics interviews Prof. Inderjit Chopra regarding personal tilt-rotor aircraft.

10/18/2008
The Associated Press quotes Ed Link regarding the possibility that termites are further endangering levees in New Orleans.

10/17/2008
Aerospace engineering student Laura Meyer blogs for the Discovery Channel web site regarding her recent trip to Capitol Hill to advocate for more NASA funding.

10/14/2008
Reuters covers the appointment of alumnus Robert Bernhard, Notre Dame VP for research, to a corporate board of directors.

10/1/2008
Innovations Digest features Prof. Gilmer Blankenship's course on autonomous robots.

9/29/2008
Prof. Sean Humbert comments on pterodactyl-inspired aircraft design for Discovery News.

9/25/2008
Small Times covers Prof. Reza Ghodssi's work on microscale turbines.

9/25/2008
The Washington Post interviews alumnus Hugh Grunden (B.S. '82, civil engineering) regarding his successes with Easton (Md.) Utilities.

9/23/2008
Reporters from WUSA 9 and NBC 4 in Washington, D.C., try out the Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel's hurricane-force winds.

9/20/2008
PCWorld covers the University of Maryland WiMax Lab, run by ECE affiliate professor Ashok Agrawala.

9/5/2008
The Clark School's flooding experts Ed Link and Gerry Galloway (civil engineering) are quoted by the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Los Angeles Times, respectively.

9/4/2008
WTTG Fox 5's morning show broadcasts live from the Clark School's Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility and the Kim Building Plaza. [no longer available]

9/3/2008
Prof. Bill Bentley's work using the tobacco mosaic virus in gene therapy research is covered by Wired.

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8/25/2008
Robert Fischell's migraine device is featured in the Baltimore Sun.

8/22/2008
Prof. Bill Bentley gets a mention on NPR's "Chemistry News Roundup."

8/22/2008
Prof. James Quintiere (fire protection engineering) is quoted in Newsday and the Los Angeles Times regarding the World Trade Center fire.

8/18/2008
Prof. Chung C. Fu (civil engineering) is quoted by the Baltimore Sun in an article on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

8/16/2008
Prof. Vincent Brannigan (fire protection engineering) is quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding a construction fire in Conshohocken.

8/13/2008
WUSA Channel 9 (CBS, Washington, D.C.) covers the recent win by Robotics@Maryland.

8/5/2008
The Associated Press covers Robotics@Maryland's national underwater robotics competition win.

7/31/2008
Esquire features an alum's search for the source of mysterious short-wave radio communications.

7/30/2008
Prof. Don Vannoy is interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio regarding the first anniversary of the I-35 bridge collapse.

7/14/2008
U.S. News & World Report features the Clark School's "Catapult Camp."

7/13/2008
Prof. Gerry Galloway quoted in Baltimore Sun article regarding the nation's levees.

7/4/2008
The Chicago Tribune quotes Prof. Gerry Galloway regarding a levee controversy.

7/2/2008
Scripps Howard News Service interviews Prof. Gerry Galloway about floodplain management.

6/22/2008
The New York Times covers Prof. Gerry Galloway's involvement on a federal committee to review levees along the Mississippi River.

6/22/2008
The San Francisco Chronicle quotes Prof. John Cumings and Prof. Gerry Galloway in two different articles on the same day.

6/20/2008
NPR interviews Prof. Gerry Galloway regarding the levee system along the upper Mississippi River.

6/17/2008
Prof. John Cumings is interviewed by the Washington Post about crane collapses across the country and participates in an online chat session with Post readers.

6/11/2008
The Discovery Channel features Prof. Dan Lathrop's Dynamo project.

6/9/2008
Wired Magazine features a project by civil engineering research Ed Link to model the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.

6/8/2008
Clark School alumna and Carroll County, Md., native Sydonia Rehm is featured in the Washington Post.

6/4/2008
Reader's Digest features Miao Yu's work with sensors modeled after the eardrums of a fly.

6/2/2008
A Los Angeles Times article on virtual worlds featuring CATT's highway emergency simulations makes its rounds across the country.

6/2/2008
NPR features IREAP Director Dan Lathrop's work to create a mini-Earth in order to study our planet's magnetic field.

6/2/2008
WTOP interviews CATT Director Phil Tarnoff regarding how poorly timed traffic lights affect your car's gas mileage.

6/2/2008
Clark School alum dubbed "Dr. Carbon" is profiled by the Associated Press.

6/1/2008
Reader's Digest features mechanical engineering Professor Miao Yu.

5/23/2008
Clark School grad featured in Washington Post article on the UM commencement.

5/21/2008
Prof. Greg Baecher is a guest on WAMU's "The Kojo Nnamdi Show" regarding sinkholes.

5/19/2008
Forbes profiles Sezmi, a new company led by alumni Phil Wiser and Buno Pati.

5/7/2008
Popular Mechanics and Sensors Magazine feature the cell-based sensor work of Professors Abshire, Smela and Shapiro.

5/7/2008
Flight International features a podcast by Mark Lewis, aerospace engineering professor and U.S. Air Force chief scientist.

5/6/2008
Alumnus Roy McCauley is profiled by Washington, D.C.'s NBC4.

5/6/2008
CATT Director Phil Tarnoff quoted in the Baltimore Sun regarding a new traffic calming center.

5/1/2008
Alumnus Edward St. John profiled in Baltimore Magazine.

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4/28/2008
Prof. Peter Sandborn quoted in the Wall Street Journal regarding technology obsolence. [subscription required]

4/27/2008
Gerald Galloway is quoted by WJZ regarding the water woes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

4/20/2008
The New York Times features work done by the 2007 UM Solar Decathlon team.

4/18/2008
Baltimore Sun covers Clark School alum's gift to create seed fund fo Hinman CEOs students.

4/17/2008
Prof. Edward Ott quoted in New York Times obituary for father of chaos theory.

4/16/2008
InfoWorld includes Phaneuf's research to "grow" computers on list of 25 key projects.

4/10/2008
Baltimore Sun covers departure of Sarah Djamshidi to lead Chesapeake Innovation Center.

4/7/2008
CNBC covers new advance in biochip microfactories research. [article no longer available online]

4/7/2008
Flight International covers the Clark School's new MAST center.

4/3/2008
Chris Cadou (aerospace engineering) quoted in the Orlando Sentinel
regarding NASA's Ares craft. [article no longer available online]

3/27/2008
Maryland Daily Record covers aerospace engineering's new "Microsystems Mechanics" center.

3/22/2008
New Scientist features Miao Yu's work on microphones that mimic a fly's ear. [subscription required to read full article]

3/15/2008
Los Angeles Times, in an editorial, mentions MTECH-assisted biofuel research. [article not available online]

3/14/2008
Investor's Business Daily covers Davis/Smoliyaninov's invisibility cloak work.

3/13/2008
Santiago Solares (ME) is quoted in a MIT Technology Review article on nanotech drug delivery.

3/12/2008
The Washington Post covers an award received by alumna Sarah Navid, M.S. '77, civil engineering.

3/11/2008
Ed Link (CivE) is quoted in two articles in the New Orleans Times-Picayune—on on the future outlook for flood control and another on flood insurance.

3/10/2008
Double coverage by the Associated Press on flood control efforts (quoting Ed Link) and on MTECH-assisted biofuel research.

3/10/2008
NBC4 (Washington, D.C.), WJZ-TV (Baltimore), and the Washington Post cover biofuel production technology assisted by MTECH.

2/28/2008
The Associated Press quotes Ed Link (CivE) regarding a flood risk study.

2/1/2008
The Associated Press interviews Ed Link in an article picked up across the nation, including by Time.

2/1/2008
ECE Chair Pat O'Shea co-authors an article in Physics Today. [subscription required]

2/1/2008
Alumnus, benefactor and Professor of the Practice Jeong H. Kim is profiled in the February issue of Fast Company.

2/1/2008
Aerospace Engineering Professor Gordon Leishman is quoted in the February issue of Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine.

1/29/2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education mentions alumni-created DoFlick.

1/18/2008
Transcript and MP3 of online interview with Prof. Gerry Galloway by the Central Valley Business Times regarding a report on California flooding risks.

1/18/2008
The Sacremento Bee covers a report regarding California flooding and an article in Science magazine, both of which featured Clark School professors as authors.

1/17/2008
Prof. Gerry Galloway contributes to an article in Science magazine about reclaiming old infrastructure sites for ecological restoration. [requires a subscription]

1/17/2008
The Discovery Channel quotes Prof. Gerry Galloway.