Engineering & Technology
Dudenhoefer named executive director of Semiconductor Economic Development
Christie Dudenhoefer has been named as the executive director of Semiconductor Economic Development and Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub regional innovation officer at Oregon State University. Dudenhoefer was most recently head of the Life Science Solutions business inside HP’s Specialty Printing and Technology Solutions group. She worked at HP since 1992.
OSU Authors: New book from Ecampus researcher explores the psychology of imaginary friends
If you’ve ever had an imaginary friend or engaged in personal banter with an AI chatbot, Oregon State University researcher and author Naomi Aguiar is here to reassure you: You are not weird.
Her book, “Imaginary Friends and the People Who Create Them,” was co-written with University of Oregon professor emerita Marjorie Taylor and recently published by Oxford University Press.
OSU bioengineering researchers send cardiac tissue cells to space to test effects of low gravity
Ivana Hernandez holding the box containing cardiac cells bound for the International Space Station. Photo courtesy of Space Tango.
As part of a larger research grant, a bioengineering student and professor at Oregon State University sent three types of cardiac cells on a recent SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station.
The materials orbited for 21 days in November, and once they return to OSU in mid-December, the researchers will study the effects very low gravity (microgravity) had on cell growth and health.