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Student researchers from across U.S. get back in the field through REUs
While the summer of 2020 kept many students home, undergraduate engineering students from across the nation made the most of this summer through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates programs, including two at the College of Engineering.
Raleigh medtech VitalFlo lands $2.14M, aims to scale, add jobs
VitalFlo, a predictive medicine platform that emerged from patient care and research experiences of advisors Dr. Michelle Hernandez and Dr. David Peden of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and colleagues at North Carolina State University, has raised $2.14 million in seed funding in a round led by Geekdom Fund.
ASSIST Medical Advisor Peden Named Inaugural Editor-in-Chief of New AAAAI journal
David Peden, MD, past president of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, will serve as the academy’s first editor-in-chief of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global.
ECU Brody School of Medicine and ASSIST Center Partner on Healthcare Access Initiative
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is proud to be a research partner of the ASSIST Center at N.C. State University. Brody’s...
Young Scholars Present Their Research at Virtual Research Symposium
One of the main goals of the ASSIST Center is to train the next generation of scientists and engineers to be innovative leaders in either...
A Smarter Collar
This article was originally published here. Lorraine Trapani’s husband, Michael, was a hard-charging, happy person. So, when he became partially blind, he worked to live...
‘Wristwatch’ Monitors Body Chemistry to Boost Athletic Performance, Prevent Injury
Engineering researchers have developed a device the size of a wristwatch that can monitor an individual’s body chemistry to help improve athletic performance and identify potential health problems.