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Networking, managing information for the military
Novel network is proposed for Department of Defense
Aug. 6,
2008 --
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| Image courtesy U.S. Army |
| WUSTL's Patrick Crowley is proposing a novel network for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to manage information better simultaneously in real-time. |
Patrick Crowley, a WUSTL computer architect, intends to design a new kind of network for the Department of Defense (DoD) to facilitate real-time information in the field so that every foot soldier, commander, tank and transport vehicle is networked. Crowley will use the WUSTL programmable network platform that can scale real-time information sharing over several orders of magnitude, from a handful of interconnected platforms to thousands and tens of thousands. He hopes to facilitate better information sharing in the military.
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Saving lives
Today's military using more robots
Aug. 4,
2008 --
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| WUSTL computer scientists who work on robots say the machines still need the human touch. |
War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though — it is Packbot from iRobot Corporation. Robots in the military are no longer the stuff of science fiction, and WUSTL's Doug Few and Bill Smart are on the cutting edge of this new wave of technology. Few and Smart report that the military goal is to have approximately 30% of the Army comprised of robotic forces by approximately 2020.
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Staying on top of poxviruses
Poxvirus's ability to hide from the immune system may aid vaccine design
Nov. 15,
2007 -- The cowpox virus, a much milder cousin of the deadly smallpox virus, can keep infected host cells from warning the immune system that they have been compromised, researchers at the School of Medicine have found. The scientists also showed that more virulent poxviruses, such as the strains of monkeypox prevalent in Central Africa, likely have the same ability.
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Research!America
Samuel Stanley named global health research ambassador
July 11,
2007 --
Samuel Stanley, vice chancellor of research, has been named an Ambassador in Research!America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Stanley is now one of 50 of the nation's foremost global health experts who have joined forces to increase awareness about the critical need for greater U.S. public and private investment in research to improve global health.
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New generation of hybrid filter
Device traps, UV zaps pathogens
June 8,
2005 -- A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Colorado at Boulder has removed bioaerosols - airborne biological particulate matter -- from the air of a hospital therapy pool using a new generation of hybrid filters. The bioaerosols identified in the unnamed Midwestern hospital pool had sickened nine lifeguards who had become ill with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a lung condition that mimics pneumonia symptoms. This forced the pool to shut down. It is now reopened.
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Biodefense grant
NIH awards $1.8 million to center for biodefense, emerging diseases research
Dec. 3,
2004 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an additional $1.8 million to the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), a multi-institutional research center anchored at WUSM.
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Oxidizing hazardous particles
Device traps, deactivates airborne bioagents
March 3,
2004 --
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| Anthrax is nasty stuff. An environmental engineer at WUSTL uses smart catalysts in his device that can detect the presence of airborne anthrax and disable it. |
An environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis with his doctoral student has patented a device for trapping and deactivating microbial particles. The work is promising in the war on terrorism for deactivating airborne bioagents and bioweapons such as the smallpox virus, anthrax and ricin, and also in routine indoor air ventilation applications such as in buildings and aircraft cabins.
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Homeland security
Biodefense research is focus of new Midwest Center
Sept. 4,
2003 -- The United States Department of Health and Human Services announced today that Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will anchor a multi-institutional Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE). The center will be funded by a five-year, $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
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