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Researchers in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory were the first to identify a new strain of avian metapneumovirus — a highly contagious disease that is currently causing significant problems for the U.S. poultry industry — and are now working toward developing a safe and effective vaccine.

Mohammed Teymouri, assistant professor of construction management in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, is working to solve one of the most pressing issues in the construction industry: how to lower carbon emissions of concrete.

Rachel Short and Gazala Ameen, two assistant professors in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, have each received one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious grants for early career faculty to pursue biology research projects.

ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ has been tapped by the National Science Foundation to lead a statewide project that will build research capacity focused on biological nitrogen fixation and its applications in sustainable agriculture and industry.

New research from ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ's Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics — led by Adam Hoppe — aims to better understand one of the immune system's key tools in eliminating cancerous cells, macrophages.

A four-man team of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ mechanical engineering students has designed a wearable sleeve that will allow aspiring nurses to practice intravenous (IV) injections.

A team of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ mechanical engineering students have designed a cheap and affordable prosthetic that can be made and built with materials readily available around the world.

The annual ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Celebration of Faculty Excellence recognized 30 faculty members, researchers and scientists Tuesday. The event honors faculty members in the university's colleges for outstanding research, teaching and service.

Srinivas Janaswamy, associate professor of food chemistry, has demonstrated how banana peels can be utilized to create biodegradable films — plastic-like material that will decompose in the environment and may one day replace petroleum-based plastic as the dominant food packaging material.

ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ researcher Srinivas Janaswamy has demonstrated how switchgrass can be utilized to create bioplastics.