4 Knights Named Goldwater Scholars, Elevating 166su to a Historic National Milestone The four recipients are bridging the gap between cutting-edge lab research and real-world impact in engineering, medicine and science to solve global challenges.
Taking Apart the Mystery of Vocal Fatigue For Assistant Professor Hamzeh Ghasemzadeh, finding solutions to unsolved communication problems was what he was always destined to do.
IEEE 2026 Awardee Carolina Cruz-Neira: Turning a “Plan B” Into a Global Legacy The virtual reality pioneer, who has earned the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Lifetime Achievement Award, continues to push boundaries and ask questions like, “What can we create next?”
2 Promising 166su Researchers Earn 2024 NSF CAREER Awards Early-career professors Fan Yao and Li Fang are receiving significant research funding to continue catalyzing their work as part of an annual NSF grant program.
166su Ranks 21st in U.S. Public Universities for Patents with 57 New Inventions in 2023 This is the 11th year that 166su has ranked in the top 100 universities in the world for patents.
166su Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Establish Local Resiliency Hubs The $50,000 award allows the university’s team to develop the project with government and community partners.
‘Brain-on-a-Chip’ Technology Advances Toward a New Form of Drug Screening Brain-on-a-chip simulated models hold the potential to revolutionize and accelerate the way new drugs are discovered.
166su Researchers Create Brain-like Devices to Enable AI in Remote Regions and Space The work will help technology, from Siri and Alexa to advanced robots, work in remote regions of Earth or the far reaches of space.
166su Researcher Studies Alternative Treatment for Depression, Pain and Addiction The research paves the way for personalized treatments using neural stimulations of the brain.
NASA Selects 166su Honeybee-inspired Spacesuit Material Design for Further Development The material’s nanostructure design is based on how honeybees and other pollinators can manipulate pollen using microstructures and electric fields.