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Using Wearable Technology to Prevent Kidney Stones

Oct. 21, 2020
WNCG professor Edison Thomaz is part of a team exploring the use of wearable technology to prevent kidney stones. The team received a five year, $2.97 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to address this problem. The team includes David Conroy, professor of kinesiology and human development and family studies, Necole Streeper, assistant professor of surgery at the College of Medicine, both from Penn State University, as well as Nilam Ram, professor of communications and psychology at Stanford University.
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Prof. Andrea Alù Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Sept. 28, 2015
Prof. Andrea Alù has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for “seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials.” Election to Fellowship in the American Physical Society is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership and is recognition by peers of the person’s outstanding contributions to physics.
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Prof. Andrea Alù Recognized as Outstanding Referee

May 20, 2014
Prof. Andrea Alù was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). This award recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in APS journals. The highly selective Outstanding Referee program annually recognizes the top 150 of the roughly 60,000 currently active referees.