NEW RESEARCH
 A research team from the Clark School and the University of Maryland, Baltimore has won a new $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue developing a small robot that could one day be a huge aid to neurosurgeons in removing difficult-to-reach brain tumors. Principal investigators include Jaydev P. Desai (pictured), associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Clark School, and Rao Gullapalli, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine, and J. Marc Simard, M.D., professor of neurosurgery, both at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
 Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) professor Ichiro Takeuchi (pictured) and MSE adjunct professor Jun Cui have received a three-year, $2.83 million Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) "plus-up" award to develop a residential-grade air conditioning system that uses no liquid refrigerants and could cut both electric bills and carbon dioxide emissions.
 Professors Christopher Davis (electrical and computer engineering, pictured) and Stuart Milner (civil and environmental engineering) received a $1 million contract from the Federal Highway Administration to collaborate on a three-year project using cooperating high-definition cameras to monitor traffic characteristics, such as vehicle speeds and types, incidents and congestion in the transportation infrastructure.
Two Clark School-led proposals to the National Science Foundation for Major Research Instrumentation awards have been accepted:
 • Andre Marshall (associate professor, fire protection engineering and aerospace engineering, pictured) is PI and Sheryl Ehrman (professor and chair, chemical and biomolecular engineering) is co-PI on "MRI: Development of Spatially-resolved spray scanning system."
 • Rob Briber (professor and chair, MSE) is PI, along with several co-PIs on "MRI: Acquisition of a Small Angle X-Ray Scattering System for the Characterization of Nanoscale Structures."
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