In the News, May 2010

Dr. Mark E. Davis, KY A ’77, recently published his work on delivering drugs made of RNA, or “tiny bits of genetic material,” to the target or location of a disease in the journal Nature.

The practice of delivering these drugs is call RNA interference. The difficulty is “how to deliver RNA-interfering drugs inside the body.” Dr. Davis, along with other researchers, has “for the the first time, successfully transported these medicines inside the human body to the source of melanoma.”

Read the full article from the Houston Chronicle

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A nanoengineering professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology recently received a 2010 Young Investigator Program award from the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

Dr. Chang-Hwan Choi’s work is focused on “enhancing the corrosion resistance capabilities of Naval Vessels.”

To learn more about Dr. Choi’s work, read this Q&A article from Nature

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This past weekend, Brian McClendon, KS A ’86, wrote an opinion piece for the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper.

In the article, McClendon discusses the origin for his love of geography and the upcoming National Geographic Bee.

McClendon is a vice president of engineering with Google and leads Google’s geo products, which include Google Maps, Earth, and others.

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