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Forum shows off ASU technologies [02.19.09]

More than 50 venture capitalists, angel investors and industry executives came to campus with the sole purpose of looking under ASU’s innovation hood to see what gems of technologies are ready to come out of its laboratories. Taking part in the first ASU Tech Forum, held Feb. 12-13, they came away impressed. Read More

ASU Technology Forum [02.13.09]

On February 12, 2009 to February 13, 2009, AzTE will introduce the investment community to Arizona State University and its research enterprise. It will showcase some of ASU’s use-inspired research in the following areas:
  • Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Bioanalytics-Assay & Devices
  • Energy & Power
  • Environmental/Clean Tech
  • Medical Devices
  • Semiconductor Materials & Processes
  • Therapeutics & Vaccines

ASU professor
Dr. Nongjian Tao, a professor of electrical engineering in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, knows that tuning forks can be used to detect many things — not just perfect pitch. After nearly four years of research at ASU in the area of chemical sensors and biosensors, Tao has developed a device that uses tuning-fork technology to detect chemicals and other biosubstances.
William J. Tyler Develops Ultrasonic Neuromodulation
Economist January 8, 2009: "It may, in the future, be possible to treat brain diseases with ultrasound.
THE idea of treating maladies of the mind by blasting the brain with noise sounds, to the layman, like kicking a television set in order to repair it. It is, however, on the cards. The noise in question is ultrasound. This has been used for decades to scan human interiors—particularly wombs containing developing fetuses. The ultrasound is reflected from surfaces within the body (such as the skin of a fetus) in the way that audible sound echoes from a cliff face. William Tyler and his colleagues at Arizona State University, however, want to take things a stage further. They think that ultrasound might be used therapeutically as well." Full Article