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News & UpdatesBodyViz Co-Founder to Speak Feb . 12Eliot Winer, co-founder of BodyViz.com and associate director of IPRT's Virtual Reality Applications Center, will speak at the ISU Pappajohn Center's Entrepreneurship Forum on Friday, Feb 12, 12 noon to 1 p.m. BodyViz.com software creates 3D images of real patients using CT and MRI scans, allowing surgeons and medical students to get a closer look at the internal structures of the human body. The event, held in the Gallery Room of ISU's Memorial Union, is free and open to the public. See Iowa State release. IPRT Researchers to Develop BiofuelsIowa State University researchers will receive a total of $8 million over three years from a U.S. Department of Energy program to research and develop advanced biofuels. Victor Lin, director of IPRT's Center for Catalysis, will lead a team embarking on a $5.3 million study of biodiesel production from algae. Robert C. Brown, director of IPRT's Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies and the Iowa Farm Bureau director of Iowa State's Bioeconomy Institute, will lead a $2.7 million study of the thermochemical and catalytic conversion of biomass to fuels. See Iowa State release. VRAC Startup Software on "Biggest Loser"
Eliot Winer (left), associate director of IPRT's Virtual Reality Applications Center, and Jim Oliver, VRAC director, are founders of Bodyviz.com, an Ames, Iowa, startup company that makes software for visualizing patient data from CT and MRI scans. The technology was first developed at VRAC. The company's software is being used by NBC's "The Biggest Loser" reality show to help illustrate to contestants how body fat can cause health problems. View the episode at NBC.com or read more in Des Moines Register. MRC's Biswas Named APS FellowRana Biswas, a scientist with IPRT’s Microelectronics Research Center, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. According to the APS citation, Biswas was elected a Fellow for "theoretical contributions to the dynamics of semiconductors, solar materials, and photonic crystals." Biswas is also an Iowa State University adjunct associate professor of physics and astronomy and of electrical and computer engineering and a physicist at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society membership is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society. Hand Sanitizer Project in Ames TribuneA research project managed and co-funded by IPRT's Technology Commercialization Group has been featured in the Ames Tribune. The article explains how Prefenz, a Muscatine, Iowa, company, came to IPRT and Iowa State for help with analyzing its alcohol-free hand sanitizer product. The hand sanitizer is now on the shelves of local stores. See article in Ames Tribune IPRT's Lopez Receives NDE AwardRick Lopez, metallurgist with the Materials Group in IPRT Company Assistance, recently received the Nondestructive Testing “Better Way” award from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Air Transport Association (ATA) for the second time in five years. Lopez, along with an international team of government and airline industry professionals, was recognized for accomplishments in working with a novel inspection method that utilizes self-adhesive polymeric sensors containing vacuum channels.See IPRT news release. R&D Innovator of the Year has IPRT LinkIowa State University's Hans van Leeuwen, who has led research teams awarded back-to-back R&D 100 awards for biofuels developments, has also been named R&D Magazine's 2009 Innovator of the Year. One project that helped Leeuwen earn the honor was done with assistance from IPRT's Technology Commercialization Group. The project focused on purifying ethyl alcohol with ozone and activated carbon and involved Mello3z, LLC, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Leeuwen is an Iowa State professor in civil, construction and environmental engineering. See Iowa State news release or R&D magazine article. CNDE Unveils New "T-ray" FacilityThe new Terahertz Ray (or "T-ray") Research Facility at IPRT's Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) gives researchers a state-of-the-art tool to measure and characterize materials. Electromagnetic rays in the terehertz range can penetrate many common gases, non-metal solids and some liquids. Researchers say the instrument should produce useful data for automotive, aviation, food, energy, materials, pharmaceuticals, medical, forensics, defense and homeland security fields. See Iowa State news release. IPRT Reaches Throughout Iowa... and World
IPRT Impact Averages $12.8 Million
A summary of project evaluation data shows that Iowa companies with technical problems and research and development needs continue to find
technical help through the services of IPRT Company Assistance. Companies report positive impacts affecting
their sales, investments and operating costs. Of the 55% of IPRT clients responding to the survey, the estimated annual average impact over a
five-year period is approximately $12.8 million per year, while the impact in FY2009 was approximately $14.5 million. IPRT |
About IPRTThe Institute for Physical Research and Technology, also known as IPRT, is a network of scientific research centers at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. In addition to performing world-class scientific research, IPRT provides a wide variety of technical assistance to Iowa companies. IPRT has a close working relationship with the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. IPRT's broad mission is to promote interdisciplinary research in the physical sciences and engineering and specifically to foster development of new technologies. Staffed by world-class faculty and scientists and backed by unique facilities and equipment, IPRT helps develop Iowa's economy through research, company assistance and educational programs. IPRT works for Iowa. To learn more, please browse our pages or email iprtinfo@iastate.edu. IPRT FactsIPRT Company Assistance worked with 625 organizations in 173 Iowa cities and towns in 88 of Iowa's 99 counties from 2004 to 2008. |
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