Three Nebraska Engineering students and a physics student from Nebraska Wesleyan University are on a unique research adventure for nine weeks, working on a project at a university in Japan. The team, which left May 22 for Japan, is supported with a three-year grant awarded to Sangjin Ryu, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, from the National Science Foundation International Research Experiences for Students program. Currently, the students are completing eight weeks of work alongside researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology who are using microfluidics and CMOS sensors to develop portable diagnostics devices to detect viruses or bacterial pathogens.
July 9, 2024
