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New inroads in additive manufacturing promise to revitalize manufacturing in a wide variety of industries.
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The Department of Biomedical Engineering is finding new ways to promote healing and bone regeneration using sugars obtained from the shells of crustaceans.
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Wearable health sensors create not only opportunities to improve personal health but also big data for breakthrough health care research.
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The university’s MAP901 Team is using specialized 3D visualization and mapping technologies to help emergency first responders navigate the city’s buildings to save time and lives.
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The UofM’s iIMPACT and the Urban Child Institute fight the traumas that can devastate children in poverty.
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Fresh sunflower genome sequencing data blooms in the journal Nature.
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It is only fitting that a place called Memphis should be a leader in Egyptian Art and Archeology.
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Fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, the University of Memphis, in partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum, becomes the epicenter for civil rights reflection, conversation and action.
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Chosen for the National Drones Testing Program, Memphis Airport Authority and the UofM’s FedEx Institute of Technology are studying ways to safely integrate manned and unmanned aircraft.
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