Global innovators have a new place to land in Northern Virginia: the NISA program at George Mason’s SciTech campus. Beyond the labs and mentors, it’s a community that wants bold ideas to take hold. With $3.9M from GO Virginia and support from local partners, the region is showing it’s serious about growing with the companies it attracts.

Multidisciplinary faculty teams at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in collaboration with colleagues from Mississippi State University, are using a $5 million award to apply their expertise in advanced manufacturing, metallurgy and welding to create new steels for the United States Navy.

Farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, pay four to six times more for crop insurance than their counterparts in the upper Midwest, and Hunter Biram wanted to know why. The result of his research with colleagues in Kansas was published in late July in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Inspired by the serrated stinger of a honeybee,  a new microneedle platform was developed in International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing (IF: 21.3) to combine drug delivery, electrical stimulation, and continuous monitoring in a single, wearable system. This platform tackles one of the toughest problems in modern medicine: diabetic wound healing.

A first-of-its-kind national study co-authored by Associate Professor George Homsy at Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals a stark reality: minority communities, namely Black Americans, are paying a disproportionately higher share of their income to power their homes.

Dry processed electrodes that do not require expensive and sometimes toxic solvents and instead use polytetrafluoroethylene as a binder could make battery cell production more environmentally friendly and cost-effective. A research team from the MEET Battery Research Center and the Institute of Business Chemistry at the University of Münster has now developed a method for recycling such dry-processed cathodes — an important step toward circular batteries.