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Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ held its ninth annual Swine Day at Club 71 in Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium on Nov. 4. Organized by university swine research and extension personnel, the daylong event offered attendees a full day of learning and connection.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ associate professor Saikat Basu published a study that explains how secondary deep lung infections — like pneumonia — can develop after a throat or nasal infection.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ associate professor Rachel Willand-Charnley received an endowment from Bill and Nancy Wadsworth earlier this year. The funding will help Willand-Charnley accelerate cancer research at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ers from Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Department of Biology and Microbiology and the BioSystems Networks and Transformative Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Center – Insights into Inflammation (BioSNTR-II) have identified a protein — ALIX — that can help boost cells' self-healing abilities.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ researcher Swas Kaushal is part of a new generation of scientists blending technology and agriculture — and his work is gaining global attention through two major travel awards.

For the fifth consecutive year, Yucheng Liu, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, has been named to the Stanford University-Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists’ list. The compilation is based on the number of times a scientist’s papers are cited in another scientist’s papers. Liu’s writings have been cited a total of 1,966 times with 377 of them occurring in 2024. Liu, the Duane Sander Endowed Professor, has served as department head since 2021 and is a Distinguished Member of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Turner Marr, a mechanical engineering senior from Buffalo, Minnesota, wanted to become a doctor when he enrolled at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ in fall 2022. That lasted all of one semester. The switch from biochemistry premed to mechanical engineering had nothing to do with the sight of blood or the thought of working on a cadaver. He simply wanted a major that required more math while allowing hands-on learning. He found that in mechanical engineering and in December 2024 was selected by the college as a Future Innovator of America.

This summer, Delaney Baumberger, a mechanical engineering graduate student at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, spent ten weeks working among some of the nation’s top aerospace scientists at the Air Force Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Lab in Dayton, Ohio. Baumberger and her adviser, associate professor Jeffrey Doom, collaborated with Air Force Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Lab researchers to run advanced computational fluid dynamics simulations for hypersonic scramjet engines, experimental engines that burn fuel at speeds above Mach 5. Their work explored how engine geometry affects combustion stability and performance at extreme speeds. .

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Haarberg Drug, Disease and Delivery Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Center is spurring economic development as it progresses in finding new treatments for cancer and other diseases.

Nurses with bachelor’s degrees who are looking for additional paths for advancing their careers can find options in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½â€™s College of Nursing.