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Research Opportunity: Engineering of Inhaled Therapeutics

Faculty Researcher: ALAN WATTS

Contact Details

Alan Watts
abwatts@austin.utexas.edu
512-495-4735

We have invented a new way to deliver inhaled therapies to the lungs. This has very big implications to treat diseases such as asthma, COPD, and lung infection. Now we need a student with an engineering background (MechE preferred) to help with design and scale up of the manufacturing process. The basics of current manufacturing include rapid freezing of a drug solution on a cryogenic surface followed by solvent removal via freeze drying. A qualified student will be given the opportunity to provide technical and creative input and potentially be included as a co-inventor on a patent.

Qualifications

Computer-aided design, familiarity with prototyping/machining, thermodynamics, heat-transfer

Project Timeline

starting ASAP and continuing for 6 months to 1 year

Duties

Design and scale up of a novel pharmaceutical manufacturing process.

, Filed Under: Research

Psychology Professor Seeking Research Assistants with Programming and Graphic Design Skills

Description
We are developing a new web-based platform for publication of scientific information. The project was born from observing the highly inefficient practices currently dominating the dissemination of scientific information. Instead of fixing these problems one by one we decided to create a prototype of a scientific journal series on a completely different basis that breaks from traditional commercial publication practice. A significant part of the code has already been developed. I am looking for creative, dedicated students who are experienced in programming web applications to continue the project. You also must be open to new approaches, bring you new ideas to the table for testing on a larger internet community.

Qualifications
Computer programming on web application platforms.
The usual suspects C/C++, MySQL, Java, (Ajax, Python, …, you name it).
Developing experience on Rails is a bonus.
You bring your toolbox and graphical design skills.

Project Timeline
Start: 1/1/2015 End: 12/31/2016

Duties
Programming, attend regular weekly meetings. Meet milestones of code development. Team work alternating with individual work. Flexible schedule.
Interested? Contact Professor Zoltan Nadasdy at zoltan@utexas.edu

 

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Global Jazz Research Opportunity

Dr. Charles Carson, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Butler School of Music, is involved in a long-term multi-sited exploration of jazz outside of the US. Questions include: the role of race and class; stylistic variations; and the alternative political uses of the music in various contexts. Sites include Sweden, South Africa, and Argentina. Assistantship open to anyone interested in culture/history/politics.

For more information, check out the Eureka website here.