Analysis: ‘Robo umps’ will help bring baseball into the 21st century – in more ways than one – Bend Bulletin

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A computerized strike zone could be on the way to Major League Baseball. The umpires union struck a deal with MLB officials over the weekend to cooperate and assist with the implementation of a digitally governed strike zone as part of a larger contract, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.

Players, coaches and fans have clamored for such a reform after a heartily scrutinized postseason of officiating that saw baseball fans and observers calling their own balls and strikes, often at odds with umpires decisions.

With game telecasts now routinely including a strike zone projected on the screen, fans can decide for themselves after each pitch whether an umpire was correct, with controversial rulings casting a shadow over a game that is already grappling with other structural issues, including pace of play and rising strikeout and home run numbers.

The five-year agreement between umpires and MLB, part of a new labor deal first reported by The Associated Press, provides umpires significant increases in compensation and retirement benefits designed to let older umpires retire sooner. In exchange, the umpires will advise commissioner Rob Manfred on the development and implementation of ABS, the leagues proprietary automated balls and strikes system developed by sports data firm TrackMan.

The independent Atlantic League, an eight-team minor league unaffiliated with MLB franchises, piloted ABS in 2019, judging the experiment a great success. MLB deployed the system in the Arizona Fall League in September and October, and it will test it again this spring and summer in the Class A advanced Florida State League.

A source with knowledge of the systems rollout said Manfred is eyeing activating the digital strike zone in the big leagues in as soon as three seasons.

The agreement with umpires, if all goes according to plan, will help push baseballs officiating into the 21st century. Where every other aspect of baseball has been quantified down to a science there are bioengineering labs designed specifically to calibrate pitchers form and batters swings the strike zone, the games very foundation, has always been subject to human biases.

Umpiring a professional baseball game is staggeringly difficult, and major and minor league umpires are the best in the world at their jobs. But they still get a great number of ball and strike calls wrong. A 2019 study from Boston University that examined 11 years worth of MLB ball/strike calls found umpires get approximately one in every five calls wrong. (That sounds like a lot, and it is, but remember that umpires do not make a call on every pitch. There are foul balls, balls put in play, check swings, and so on, leaving far fewer ball/strike calls than total pitches.)

Umpires have especially blind spots in some areas of the strike zone, the study found. They miss calls at the bottom left and bottom right portions of the strike zone, the most important parts of the zone, 14.3% and 18.3% of the time, respectively.

Simply put, ABS and get used to saying that will not miss those calls. But it will reconfigure the modern conception of the strike zone. For one, its zone is larger than the one imagined by most players and fans. The K zone projected on television is one-dimensional. It looks like a narrow window through which a pitcher must fit the ball. But the real strike zone is three-dimensional. All a pitch must do is skim a piece of that zone to be called a strike. ABS does not have blind spots.

That means the high fastball or looping curveball most umpires considered out of the zone may indeed be strikes, according to ABS. Advantage, pitcher.

However, the fastball that tries to paint the inside corner of the plate, or the slider that tries to sweep outside and misses by half an inch will not be strikes in an ABS zone no matter how well a catcher presents the offering. Advantage, hitter.

Beyond the technological improvements, paying umpires more and allowing them to retire earlier should improve the standard of the officiating workforce.

The BU study found the best umpires on balls and strikes are younger and average fewer years of big league experience. Of the top 10 umpires between 2008 and 2018, all of them were younger than 40. The best umpires had been in the major leagues for only five years. The worst umpires were all 50 or older and had spent an average of 20.6 years in the majors.

MLBs umpiring corps must get younger. The average age of a major league umpire is 46, about the age when performance behind the plate starts peaking. The umpiring corps is entirely male and almost entirely white, too. Increased compensation could be a strong motivator for more diverse candidates to pursue the profession, though MLB and the umpires union also need to increase their diversity outreach. Professional baseball is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse sports in the world. Its officials do not reflect that diversity.

Opponents of the digital strike zone need not worry too much: This is not the end of umpiring as we know it. ABS still requires a home-plate umpire to administer the game. The software is not nearly advanced enough to make complex safe or out calls on the bases. MLB will not be cutting any umpiring jobs.

When the ABS system is implemented, home-plate umpires wear an earpiece connected to an iPhone in their pocket. That connects via WiFi to TrackMan radar systems installed in the ballpark. The software announces Ball or Strike to the umpire, who announces the call to the players and crowd. It feels and looks like a normal baseball game.

But this would be arguably technologys largest integration into the officiating of major American sports, which have lagged behind the rest of the world in that category. European soccer employs goal-line technology to determine indisputably whether a shot has scored. Tennis has the Hawk-Eye instant-replay system, which tracks whether balls are in or out. Cricket uses Hawk-Eye for a complex and controversial call, leg before wicket, which is considerably more advanced than a digital strike zone.

ABSs successful rollout could lead American sports fans and executives to consider the merit of even more officiating technology. Perhaps technology could help determine if a batted ball was fair or foul, a home run or in play? In basketball, whether a ball was out of bounds? In football, whether a runner achieved a first down or a touchdown?

For Major League Baseball, ABS is a far less intrusive technology than opponents of robo umps once feared. But it would reshape the game and its officiating.

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10 National Universities Where Grads Are Paid Well – Yahoo Finance

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The average median starting salary for recent college graduates from ranked National Universities is $52,201, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 379 schools. Some of these alumni, however, are making far more than that. Using data from PayScale, here are the 10 National Universities where graduates with three years of postgraduation work experience and whose highest degree is a bachelor's have the highest median starting salaries.

Georgia Institute of Technology

U.S. News rank: 29 (tie)

Median starting salary: $70,100

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $12,682 (in-state), $33,794 (out-of-state)

Some of the most popular majors at the Georgia Institute of Technology are engineering; computer and information sciences and support services; business, management, marketing and related support services; biological and biomedical sciences; and physical sciences. The school offers other kinds of engineering majors, such as environmental engineering, and hosts major-specific career fairs, like the Schools of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Public Policy career fair.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY)

U.S. News rank: 50 (tie)

Median starting salary: $70,100

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $55,378

Engineering; computer and information sciences and support services; and business, management, marketing and related support services are a few of the most popular majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. The school offers ample opportunities for research at its 32 research centers, which can be in fields like renewable energy, cybersecurity or biotechnology, according to its website.

Princeton University (NJ)

U.S. News rank: 1

Median starting salary: $70,200

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $51,870

Popular majors of study at Princeton University are wide-ranging, including fields like social sciences; engineering; computer and information sciences and support services; biological and biomedical sciences; and public administration and social service professions. The New Jersey university's report for 2016-2017 says that about 22% of recent graduates work in the nonprofit and government sector.

Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)

U.S. News rank: 74 (tie)

Median starting salary: $70,400

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $54,014

With a strong emphasis on engineering, the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey says on its website that students have opportunities to innovate in fields like artificial intelligence, nanotech and medicine. The most popular majors at the institution are mechanical engineering; computer science; business administration and management; bioengineering and biomedical engineering; and chemical engineering.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)

U.S. News rank: 64 (tie)

Median starting salary: $71,000

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $52,322

The most popular majors at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts are mostly engineering fields: mechanical engineering; computer science; chemical engineering; bioengineering and biomedical engineering; and electrical and electronics engineering. The institution's resources include career fairs and career outlook information available online on fields like physics, psychology, professional writing and industrial engineering.

Colorado School of Mines

U.S. News rank: 84 (tie)

Median starting salary: $71,200

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $19,062 (in-state), $39,762 (out-of-state)

The Colorado School of Mines offers students industry panel presentations on careers in energy; aerospace and aviation; and biomedical and biotechnical engineering, among others, each semester. The most popular majors at the college are engineering; computer and information sciences and support services; mathematics and statistics; physical sciences; and social sciences.

Stanford University (CA)

U.S. News rank: 6 (tie)

Median starting salary: $73,800

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $53,529

The most popular majors at Stanford University in California are computer and information sciences and support services; engineering; multi/interdisciplinary studies; social sciences; and physical sciences. According to its website, the university provides a program to humanities students aimed at connecting liberal arts courses with career paths in fields like marketing and advertising; government; media and journalism; social impact; and business.

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Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

U.S. News rank: 25 (tie)

Median starting salary: $74,200

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $57,119

Popular majors at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh include engineering; computer and information sciences and support services; and mathematics and statistics. According to the school's website, the university offers specialty area advising in career fields like data science and energy as well as more broad areas of interest like startup companies and diversity and inclusion.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

U.S. News rank: 3 (tie)

Median starting salary: $82,300

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $53,790

Events like analytics career night, a European career fair and polymer day allow students to explore the various industries they might enter after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The most popular fields of study at the school are engineering; computer and information sciences and support services; mathematics and statistics; physical sciences; and biological and biomedical sciences.

California Institute of Technology

U.S. News rank: 12 (tie)

Median starting salary: $83,200

2019-2020 tuition and fees: $54,600

Engineering; physical sciences; computer and information sciences and support services; biological and biomedical sciences; and mathematics and statistics are the most popular majors at the California Institute of Technology. Students who study in Caltech's computing and mathematical sciences department can conduct research in areas like applied probability and stochastic analysis, and molecular programming and synthetic biology.

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Schools where graduates make highest starting salaries

-- California Institute of Technology: $83,200

-- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $82,300

-- Carnegie Mellon University: $74,200

-- Stanford University: $73,800

-- Colorado School of Mines: $71,200

-- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: $71,000

-- Stevens Institute of Technology: $70,400

-- Princeton University: $70,200

-- Georgia Institute of Technology: $70,100

-- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $70,100

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Faculty Mentors Guide Aspiring Researchers from Mexico in Program – University of Texas at Dallas (press release)

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Fifteen undergraduates participated in a summer program at The University of Texas at Dallas that invites students from Mexico to explore STEM-related research careers in fields such as biology, geographic information systems, materials science, physics, computer science and bioengineering.

The UT Dallas-Mexico Summer Research Program is designed to equip students from participating Mexican universities with the skills and knowledge needed to pursue careers in these fields.

Through the program, students work with faculty mentors to identify and manage a research project, then analyze the data and present their findings. Students were competitively selected from more than 240 applicants.

UT Dallas-MexicoSummer Faculty Mentors

Dr. Zachary Campbell, Dr. Michael C. Biewer, Dr. Vibhav Gogate, Dr. Kelli Palmer, Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu, Dr. Fan Zhang, Dr. Nicholas Fey, Dr. Robert Gregg, Dr. Julia Chan, Dr. Vincent Ng, Dr. Ronald A. Smaldone, Dr. Xiaohu Guo, Dr. Julia Hsu, Dr. Dinesh K. Bhatia, Thomas Lambert

Dr. Juan Gonzlez, professor of biological sciences in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the programs academic director, said participants gain enhanced knowledge and experience with research careers.

One of our goals is to provide the students with experiences that will better inform them on the rewards of a future research career and inspire them to pursue a higher degree in one of the STEM fields, Gonzlez said. We also hope to enhance further the collaboration between the research communities of both Mexico and the U.S.

The program, which has existed for 13 years, was organized by the Office of Graduate Studies, the Provosts Office and the International Center, with the co-sponsorship of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the School of Arts and Humanities and the Office of Undergraduate Education. Since 2002, 139 undergraduate students have taken part in the UT Dallas program.

The program is made possible through a partnership with 100,000 Strong in the Americas and the U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Forum on Higher Education, Innovation, and Research.

Dr. Julia W.P. Hsu, Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Nanoelectronics and professor of materials science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, described program participant Laura Yoselyn Quiroga as an enthusiastic and eager young scientist.

She is talented and ambitious, and has done a lot of reading. She is not afraid of getting her hands dirty and doing hard work. Her performance this summer strongly suggests that she will be successful in graduate school. As a mentor, it is very gratifying to see her flourish during the short time at UT Dallas, Hsu said.

Summer Research Participants

Adzuira Musule Palacios, Christopher Jquez Prado, Sandra Berenice Mendoza Peuuri,Zayd Alejandro Grajales Moreno,Juan Maldonado Juregui,Miriam Yamasaki Aguilar, Daniel Ayala Nio, Jonathan Martnez Garca, Jos Gonzlez Ayerdi, SwilmaLabastida, Laura Yoselyn Quiroga Lpez, Irving Osiel Castillo Rodriguez, Noor Beatriz Tuma Schmidt, Anaid Alethia Candido Lopez, Gerardo Ocampo Daz

Dr. Nicholas Fey, assistant professor of bioengineering and mechanical engineering, praised the creative ideas that participantSwilma Labastida brought to her summer research project.

Swilma operated with incredible maturity and independence for a researcher of her age. We are excited to submit the findings from her scientific studies for publication at an international conference and in a biomechanical engineering journal this fall. I hope she considers graduate studies in engineering and that she applies to UT Dallas, Fey said.

Computer science student Christopher Jquez Prado said he appreciated the collaborative interaction with his mentor, Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu.

I initially expected some sort of boss-employee scenario, but to my surprise and enjoyment we've been working together in a cooperative way, Prado said.

Francisco de la Torre, Consul General of Mexico in Dallas, said partnerships like the summer research program benefits both Mexico and the U.S.

This academic cooperation, where UT Dallas excels as a leader in Texas, is helping expand opportunities for educational exchanges, scientific research partnerships and cross-border innovation so we can continue building bridges for mutual economic prosperity and sustainable social development, de la Torre said.

Media Contact: Robin Russell, UT Dallas, (972) 883-4431, [emailprotected]or the Office of Media Relations, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [emailprotected].

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PALO ALTO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) The tiniest of tiny, preemies, weighing in at three, two, even one pound are being born, surviving and thriving. The youngest baby to survive was born at just 21 weeks.

Baby James is now in his mid-20s and perfectly healthy. Any baby born before 37 weeks is considered premature. Right now, theres no telling which moms will deliver early and which ones will go the full 40 weeks. But soon a simple blood test may be able to pinpoint a due date and save little lives.

You could say Haven and his mom are both heroes.

Havens mother Amanda Smith said, I tell people this is like a war zone, only this time its not my life on the line, its my little innocent childs. Smith, an Iraq and Afghanistan war vet and NATO medal of honor recipient, gave birth to Haven 100 days early, weighing just nine-tenths of a pound.

Its about the size of coke can, Smith said.

Haven is one of 450,000 babies in the U.S. born prematurely each year. For two-thirds of those deliveries, no one knows why. Mira Moufarrej, a Bioengineering PhD Student at Stanford University said, When people think about what tools an obstetrician has right now to look at a pregnancy, its ultrasound and thats it.

Now bioengineers at Stanford have developed a blood test that detects with 80 percent accuracy who will deliver early. Something that ultrasound cannot do.

Moufarrej explained, it tells you more about whats going on in the process of building a baby and what might go wrong.

The test looks at RNA molecules found in the mothers blood.

Looking at those seven types of RNA molecules, theyre higher in women who deliver preterm than full-term, Moufarrej said.

The team hopes doctors will then be able to start treatments that will delay delivery. Haven spent the first 241 days of his life in the hospital, has had seven surgeries since birth, hes on oxygen and takes 18 syringes of medication daily. But as his mom says, hes a fighter.Smith said to Haven, I get to watch you stand up, smile, and give people hope.

In low-resource settings, a test to predict time to delivery has tremendous potential to impact womens health particularly for disadvantaged women with limited access to hospitals. Because a blood test is cheap and easy to use, it has the potential to complement ultrasound and expand access to good prenatal care. Amanda is documenting little Havens journey. You can follow them both on Facebook at https://m.facebook.com/TeamHavenGreyson/

Contributors to this news report include: Marsha Lewis, Field Producer; Evan Boarders, Videographer; Cyndy McGrath, Supervising Producer; Roque Correa, Editor.

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BACKGROUND: When a baby is born more than three weeks earlier than the predicted due date, that baby is called premature. Premature babies (preemies) have not grown and developed as much as they should have before birth. Most of the time, doctors dont know why babies are born early. When they do know, its often because a mother has a health problem during pregnancy, such as diabetes, hypertension, heart or kidney problems, and an infection of the amniotic membranes or vaginal or urinary tracts. Other reasons why a baby may be born early include bleeding, often due to a low-lying placenta or a placenta that separates from the womb, having a womb that isnt shaped normally, carrying more than one baby, being underweight before pregnancy or not gaining enough weight during pregnancy, or mothers who smoke, use drugs, or drink alcohol while pregnant.(Source: https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/preemies.html)

TREATMENT: Predicting a premature baby could help doctors execute treatment options that may delay delivery. Mira Moufarrej, a Bioengineering PhD Student at Stanford University said, They use ultrasound to estimate in the first trimester how long the baby is. And they know that in the first trimester the relationship between the length of the baby now and due date is a linear relationship. Now if you measure the baby in the second trimester or the third trimester, thats not necessarily the case because at that point differences in humans come into play. Moufarrej says there are a few treatments, but they do not work well. You can do progesterone injections during pregnancy. And then if a woman has a short cervix then you can do a cervical circlage. But theres a narrow group of women that fit that scope and who deliver preterm, and they havent been shown to be that effective.(Source: Mira Moufarrej)

NEW TESTS: Moufarrej talked about the blood tests, So we developed two blood tests. The first one predicts gestational age similar to ultrasound, so when a baby will be due, but it does it in the second and the third trimester as opposed to the first. So, for women who live far away from the clinic or women who dont know theyre pregnant until later in life, this serves as a complement and a substitute whereas in the past there was no substitute to ultrasound. The test had so far shown 80 percent accuracy. (Source: Mira Moufarrej)

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Regenerative Medicine Workshop, Part 21 – Research Horizons

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The Regenerative Medicine Workshop at Hilton Head began its third decade with a long and diverse lineup of researchers who presented their latest work on a spacious range of topics, from DNA barcoded technology to strategies to reverse tissue degeneration in rotator cuff injuries.

In other words, the usual dizzying array of up-to-the-minute research from some of the worlds leading scientists and engineers.

But if there was a topical theme to last weeks 21st annual workshop (March 1-4), it was immunology.

The Hilton Head summit has always been a place where you can learn about the great, late breaking innovations in regenerative medicine, says Ned Waller, professor in the Emory University School of Medicine, and a researcher with the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech. What striking this year is, half the talks are about immunology.

And that suits Waller just fine. He is director of the Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunotherapy at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory, where he also directs the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Center. And his research presentation at Hilton Head was entitled, Another Arrow in the Anti-cancer Quiver: VIP Immunotherapy.

Waller also is one of three co-directors of the Regenerative Engineering and Medicine (REM) research center, a consortium of research institutes in Georgia: Emory, Georgia Tech, and the University of Georgia. REM is one of four organizing partners of the workshop, the others being the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center at the University of Wisconsin, the Mayo Clinics Center for Regenerative Medicine, and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Accordingly, faculty, post-doctoral, and student researchers from those institutions were well represented. But the workshop also drew researchers from across the spectrum and the planet. Among the speakers were Ronald Germain from the National Institutes of Health, and Molly Stevens from Imperial College in London. Rolando Gittens, who earned his Ph.D. in bioengineering at Georgia Tech in 2012 and is now a research scientist at the Institute for Scientific Research and High Technology Services of Panama.

There were also deep-dive presentations from researchers based at Duke, Harvard, Tufts, and Yale universities, among others, and Jeff Hubbell, the Nerem Lecturer from the University of Chicago (who delivered a talk on Biomolecular Engineering in Regenerative Medicine and Immunotherapies).

Steve Stice, as co-director of the REM from the University of Georgia (UGA), the newest member of the consortium, appreciated the geographic range of work that was presented.

One of the nice things this years is that UGA and other institutions are well represented, says Stice, professor and director of the Regenerative Bioscience Center at UGA and a Petit Institute researcher. So its not just Emory and Georgia Tech, its also Mayo, and Wisconsin, and Pittsburgh, and weve brought in speakers from all over. Its really grown and become a highly recommended event in the regenerative medicine community.

Trainees postdocs, grad students, and at least one undergraduate had a chance to present their work, also. First there was the rapid fire presentations (5 minutes) on Thursday afternoon, then a research poster competition that night, featuring 65 different projects on display.

The winning poster came from Daniel Hachim, a grad student at the University of Pittsburgh, whose project is entitled, Unveiling Macrophage Populations and Mechanisms Driving the Better Remodeling Outcomes Associated with Shifting Phenotype in the Host Response Against Biomaterials.

Cheryl San Emeterio, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, has presented posters the last three years at this event, but this was her first rapid fire presentation.

I thought it was flattering and inspiring, to talk among so many distinguished scientists here, says San Emeterio, who does her research in the lab of Ed Botchwey, associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (a joint department of Emory and Georgia Tech).

Its great to get my work out there on this scale, and I hope that people are interested and want to discuss it further. And maybe we can form some sort of productive collaboration, adds San Emeterio, whose research is entitled, Age-dependent immune Dysregulation during Repair of Volumetric Muscle Injury.

Standing near her poster for most of the evening was Madeline Smerchansky, a Petit Undergraduate Scholar from Georgia Tech attending her first Hilton Head conference. She saw the opportunity as something of an investment.

This is practice for the future, says Smerchansky, a third-year student.

At least one researcher during the four-day workshop offered a glimpse into the future from a perspective that did not include biomolecular science or immunology. Aaron Levine offered his insights , but not the usual stuff based in biomolecular science or bioengineering. Aaron Levine, associate professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and a Petit Institute researcher, delivered a presentation called, Regenerative Medicine in a Time of Policy Uncertainty.

We havent seen a lot of clear signals yet with how the policy environment is going to play out from the current presidential administration, says Levine, who focused his Friday morning talk on, among other things, potential policy drivers for regenerative medicine, such as the 21st Century Cures Act (will it be implemented by this administration, and if so, how much of it?), and the appointment of a commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The future of the Cures Act may be largely dependent on who the next FDA commissioner is, noted to Arnie Caplan, of Case Western University, during Levines post-talk Q&A session.

Later that evening, it was Caplans turn to take center stage, with Chris Evans of the Mayo Clinic.

They were the main event, you might say. With a backdrop of Caplan and Evans as photo-enhanced boxers, the mood was light for their Friday night debate, entitled, MSCs are Not Stem Cells. Or, as Nerem put it, is an MSC a mesenchymal stem cells, a medical signaling cell, or a mediocre scientific concept.

By all accounts, they verbally fought to a draw. But who knows. Maybe there will be a rematch in 2018, when the Regenerative Medicine Workshop will return to Hilton Head (March 21-24).

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Newswise For millions of sufferers, there is nothing more debilitating than chronic back or joint pain. It can feel like a lifetime of misery.

But researchers led by University of Utah bioengineering assistant professor Robby Bowles have discovered a way to curb chronic pain by modulating genes that reduce tissue- and cell-damaging inflammation.

This has applications for many inflammatory-driven diseases, Bowles says. It could be applied for arthritis or to therapeutic cells that are being delivered to inflammatory environments that need to be protected from inflammation.

The teams discovery was published in a new paper this month, CRISPR-Based Epigenome Editing of Cytokine Receptors for the Promotion of Cell Survival and Tissue Deposition in Inflammatory Environments, in a special issue of Tissue Engineering. University of Utah bioengineering doctoral student, Niloofar Farhang, co-authored the study, which is a collaborative project between the University of Utah, Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis.

In chronic back pain, for example, slipped or herniated discs are a result of damaged tissue when inflammation causes cells to create molecules that break down tissue. Typically, inflammation is natures way of alerting the immune system to repair tissue or tackle infection. But chronic inflammation can instead lead to tissue degeneration and pain.

Bowles team is using the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat) system new technology of modifying human genetics to stop cell death and keep the cells from producing molecules that damage tissue and result in chronic pain. But it doesnt do this by editing or replacing genes, which is what CRISPR tools are typically used for. Instead, it modulates the way genes turn on and off in order to protect cells from inflammation and thus breaking down tissue.

So they wont respond to inflammation. It disrupts this chronic inflammation pattern that leads to tissue degeneration and pain, Bowles says. Were not changing what is in your genetic code. Were altering what is expressed. Normally, cells do this themselves, but we are taking engineering control over these cells to tell them what to turn on and turn off.

Now that researchers know they can do this, doctors will be able to modify the genes via an injection directly to the affected area and delay the degeneration of tissue. In the case of back pain, a patient may get a discectomy to remove part of a herniated disc to relieve the pain, but tissue near the spinal cord may continue to breakdown, leading to future pain. This method could stave off additional surgeries by stopping the tissue damage.

The hope is that this stops degeneration in its tracks, and the patient could avoid any future surgeries, Bowles says. But its patient to patient. Some might still need surgery, but it could delay it.

So far, the team has developed a virus that can deliver the gene therapy and has filed a patent on the system. They hope to proceed to human trials after collecting initial data, but Bowles believes it could be about 10 years before this method is used in patients.

Other researchers on the team include University of Utah orthopaedic surgeon Brandon Lawrence, Duke University biomedical engineering associate professor Charles. A. Gersbach, biomedical engineering professor Farshid Guilak and Distinguished Professor Lori A. Setton of Washington University in St. Louis.

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You may have noticed the Town of Devons sign in Lions Park recently referring to a bioengineering test plot. Its time to talk about it.

Bioengineering in this context is a process that uses local plant material to stabilize an eroding river or stream bank. If we are satisfied with this process we can apply it to Beaver Loop and other unstable locations around town.

What got this going? This grew out of an environmental plan a group of us did for the Town a few years ago. We started talking and got to know Kristen Anderson a local resident and knowledgeable environmental consultant who now works for Associated Engineering.

Associated Engineering in conjunction with the Town of Devon, Devon Nature Club and Devon Lions Club hosted a two day bioengineering course one day in the classroom at the golf course and one day hands on installing the test plot on the river bank in Lions Park. We used tree stems as the building blocks for the project. The stems were cut on property on the west side of highway 60 with permission of the land owner Qualico Developments. The plant material mostly willow and Balsam poplar was dormant at this time i.e. bud break had not occurred yet. Dormancy and proper handling of the material is key. Its alive and we have to keep it that way. Our instructors were David Polster and Kristen Anderson.

The project was carried out by a group of people including members of the above organizations on April 19 of this year. Several other municipalities and contractors also attended.

Two different methods were used one is called dense live staking at the bottom of the slope and wattle fencing on the slope.

Dense Live Staking

Stakes were cut from balsam poplar and willow. The stakes are 70-100 cm long and 25-50 mm in diameter. We sharpened them and then inserted them into the ground using planting bars and rubber mallets. We tried to get 75 per cent of their length in the ground this is very important. They were placed about 10 cm apart in a random pattern

Wattle Fencing

We then went up the slope installing whats called wattle fencing which consists of more staking in a row these stakes are similar to the ones used in the live staking but they are in a row and about .5 meters apart.

These stakes are used for the support of the fence made of 3-5 m lengths of willow and balsam poplar stems which are about 25-50 mm thick at the base. These long stems are stacked against the live stakes about 6 high and held in place by the natural soils piled against the fence on the upslope side.

These wattle fences were installed 30 cm apart all the way up the slope.

The fence and staking slows runoff down on the slope stabilizing the slope and also holds the bank when the stream or river rises.

All components used in all aspects are living and naturally occurring in this area. Only similar soil from the area is used not bringing in any invasive species or other contaminants. We are taught in the course to only use what is available in the area and natural to the site.

Everything grows and recreates a natural stabilizing process. The project we did was all done by hand.

A beaver proof fence is installed along the river which will have to be maintained from time to time and we are watering the site up to twice a week. There is already lots of growth and its looking good.

Devon participants in the course were, Tanya Hugh, Shawn ONeill, Gord McPherson, Alan Voles, Ted Belke, Shawn Goin, Bill White, Allan Macaulay, Karen Macaulay, Kristin Walsh, plus some other town staff from water treatment plant etc.

We could organize a tour of the site with an explanation if you want contact me Allan Macaulay at albertaspruce@albertatrees.net to set that up.

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For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking bio-bots powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses. Now, Rashid Bashirs bioengineering research group is sharing the recipe for the current generation of bio-bots. Their how-to paper is the cover article in Nature Protocols.

The protocol teaches every step of building a bio-bot, from 3D printing the skeleton to tissue engineering the skeletal muscle actuator, including manufacturers and part numbers for every single thing we use in the lab, explained Ritu Raman, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering and first author of the paper, A modular approach to the design, fabrication, and characterization of muscle-powered biological machines.

This protocol is essentially intended to be a one-stop reference for any scientist around the world who wants to replicate the results we showed in our PNAS 2016 and PNAS 2014 papers, and give them a framework for building their own bio-bots for a variety of applications, Raman said.

As stated in the Nature Protocols paper, Biological machines consisting of cells and biomaterials have the potential to dynamically sense, process, respond, and adapt to environmental signals in real time. This can result in exciting possibilities where these systems could one day demonstrate complex behaviors including self-assembly, self-organization, self-healing, and adaptation of composition and functionality to best suit their environment.

Bashirs group has been a pioneer in designing and building bio-bots, less than a centimeter in size, made of flexible 3D printed hydrogels and living cells. In 2012, the group demonstrated bio-bots that could walk on their own, powered by beating heart cells from rats. However, heart cells constantly contract, denying researchers control over the bots motion.

The purpose of the paper was to provide the detailed recipes and protocols so that others can easily duplicate the work and help to further permeate the idea of building with biologyso that other researchers and educators can have the tools and the knowledge to build these bio-hybrid systems and attempt to address challenges in health, medicine, and environment that we face as a society, stated Rashid Bashir, a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and head of the Department of Bioengineering.

The 3D printing revolution has given us the tools required to build with biology in this way. Raman said. We re-designed the 3D-printed injection mold to produce skeletal muscle rings that could be manually transferred to any of a wide variety of bio-bot skeletons. These rings were shown to produce passive and active tension forces similar to those generated by muscle strips.

Using optogenetics techniques, we worked with collaborators at MIT to genetically engineer a light-responsive skeletal muscle cell line that could be stimulated to contract by pulses of 470-nm blue light, Raman added. The resultant optogenetic muscle rings were coupled to multi-legged bio-bot skeletons with symmetric geometric designs. Localized stimulation of contraction, rendered possible by the greater spatiotemporal control of light stimuli over electrical stimuli, was used to drive directional locomotion and 2D rotational steering.

In addition to Bashir and Raman, Caroline Cvetkovic, a recent graduate student in bioengineering and now a post-doctoral fellow was a co-author of the paper. Work on the bio-bots was conducted at the Micro + Nanotechnology Lab at Illinois. _____________

Contact: Rashid Bashir, Department of Bioengineering,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 217/333-1867; rbashir@illinois.edu.

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Welcome to the Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). These are exciting times both in the field and our department. I am seeing more innovative and exciting research from Penn State BME than ever before. Combined with the growth our department has seen over the past several years, we truly are broadening the impact of biomedical engineering activities locally, nationally and internationally! At Penn State, BME is the nucleus of interdisciplinary activities in engineering approaches to the medical and life sciences at the University, from the College of Engineering, Medicine, Science, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Materials Research Institute, and the Institute for CyberScience.

The Department of BME administers the undergraduate major, offering a B.S. degree, and is part of the College of Engineering. The graduate program in the Department of BME, offering a M.S., Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D., is a part of the university-wide Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioengineering, which is made up of BME faculty and faculty from a wide variety of other disciplines.

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2015-2016 Page Morton Hunter Distinguished Seminar Series 09-03-2015Dr. Hitesh Handa, University of Georgia 10-02-2015Dr. David Kaplan, Tufts University at 1:30 p.m. 11-19-2015Dr. Maria Oden, Rice University

2-25-2016Dr. Ayman El-Baz, University of Louisville

3-3-2016Dr. Glen Kwon, University of Wisconsin3-17-2016Dr. David A. Vorp, University of Pittsburgh

4-14-2016Dr. Jeff Karp, Brigham and Women's Hosp. and Harvard4-28-16Dr. Yuehuei An,North Shore-LIJ Orthopaedic Institute at Babylon

2015-2016 C. Dayton Riddle Seminars 12-03-15Dr. Jeff Willey, Wake Forest University

01-21-16Dr. Kirill Afonin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

3-10-16Jennifer Woodell-May, Zimmer Biomet

3-31-16Eva Mezey, Nat. Inst. of Dental and Craniofacial Research

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PITTSBURGH (July 16, 2015) Steven Little , Associate Professor, CNG Faculty Fellow and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, has been elected a Class of 2015 Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) . Founded in 1968, BMES is an interdisciplinary professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering. Fellow status is awarded to Society members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical engineering, and a record of membership and participation in the Society. Dr. Little holds eight US patents and provisional applications for patents including new methods to fabricate controlled release vehicles in a high throughput fashion; dissolvable synthetic-vasculature; novel complex delivery vehicles; and a description of the first degradable, artificial cell. He has authored/co-authored 70 articles in highly prestigious archival journals in his fields of specialization (controlled release, biomimetic materials, tissue engineering/regenerative medicine and drug delivery). "Dr. Little's election as BMES Fellow recognizes his seminal contributions to bioengineering education and research during his academic career," noted Harvey Borovetz , Distinguished Professor and Former Chair of Bioengineering and the Robert L. Hardesty Professor of Surgery at Pitt, and BMES Fellow who nominated Dr. Little. "In addition to his remarkable achievements in his research, Dr. Little is a prolific classroom instructor whose courses are among the most highly rated in the Swanson School of Engineering. He is the mentor for numerous M.S. and Ph.D. candidates; his lab is a magnet for undergraduate students, with more than 40 undergraduate interns being mentored by Dr. Little to date. We are very proud to recognize Dr. Steven Little as a Class of 2015 Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society." Dr. Little joins the ranks of several BMES Fellows at Pitt, including Dr. Borovetz; Clifford Brubaker , Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; Rory Cooper , FISA/PVA Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; William Federspiel , the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering; Sanjeev Shroff, Distinguished Professor and the Gerald E. McGinnis Chair in Bioengineering and Professor of Medicine; David Vorp , Associate Dean for Research in the Swanson School of Engineering and the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering; William Wagner , Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering; and Savio L-Y. Woo , Distinguished University Professor of Bioengineering and the Founder and Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC). More About Dr. Little Dr. Steven Little is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology, Ophthalmology and The McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a University Honors College Faculty Fellow. Dr. Little received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2005, with his thesis winning the American Association for Advancement of Science's Excellence in Research Award. In May of 2012, Dr. Little was appointed as the 12th Chairman of the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, one of the oldest Departments of its type in the world, dating back to 1910. In his first year on the Pitt faculty (2006), Dr. Little was appointed as a Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Engineering, the only Assistant Professor to hold this position. In 2007, he received career development awards from both the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health (K-Award). In 2008, Dr. Little was named as one of only 16 Beckman Young Investigators by the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation. Dr. Little is the only individual from the University of Pittsburgh to have ever received this award. In 2009, he was presented with the Board of Visitors Award that denotes the "single most outstanding faculty member in the School of Engineering." In 2010, he received the Coulter Translational Research Award from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation. In 2011, Dr. Little was named the recipient of the Society For Biomaterials' Young Investigator Award. In 2012, Dr. Little received the University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, and by winning the 2013 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, Dr. Little stands as the only professor in School history to receive both the teaching and research awards. Dr. Little was also named as one of only 14 "Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars" by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation in 2013 and also was named the recipient of the Carnegie Science Award for University Educators that year. In 2014, Dr. Little was named the winner of the Research to Prevent Blindness Innovative Ophthalmic Research Award, the recipient of a Phase II Coulter Translational Award, named one of Pittsburgh Magazine's "40 under 40," and highlighted as one of only five individuals in Pittsburgh who are "reshaping our world" by Pop City Media. In 2015, Dr. Little was named the winner of the Carnegie Science Award for Advanced Materials, a Fast Tracker (University Leader category) by the Pittsburgh Business Times, a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and the winner of the 2015 Curtis W. McGraw Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Little is also a Co-Founder of Qrono Inc. , which is a Pittsburgh-based start-up company that provides custom designed controlled release formulations for pharmaceutical companies, agricultural industry, and academic laboratories. About the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering The Swanson School's Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering serves undergraduate and graduate engineering students, the University and industry, through education, research, and participation in professional organizations and regional/national initiatives. The Department maintains a tradition of excellence in education and research, evidenced by recent national awards including numerous NSF CAREER Awards, a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an NIH Director's New Innovator Award, and the DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award, among others. Active areas of research in the Department include Biological and Biomedical Systems; Energy and Sustainability; and Materials Modeling and Design. The faculty holds a record of success in obtaining research funding such that the Department ranks within the top 25 U.S. Chemical Engineering departments for Federal R&D spending in recent years with annual research expenditures exceeding $7 million. The vibrant research culture within the Department includes active collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Center for Simulation and Modeling, the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, the Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering and the U.S. DOE-affiliated Institute for Advanced Energy Solutions. ### Paul Kovach

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