Three engineering science and mechanics faculty are recepients of the 2008 Grace Woodward Grants for Collaborative Research in Engineering Science and Medicine.

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor and Timothy M. Ritty, assistant professor of orthopaedics at the Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine, have received $25,000 in funding to support their application entitled Sculpted Thin Films Designed to Improve Medical Device Tissue Integration.

Michael Lanagan, associate professor, Elena Semouchkina, associate professor, Andrew Webb, professor of bioengineering, and Keith Cheng, professor of pathology, biochemistry, and pharmacology, at the Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine, have received a $25,000 grant to support their application entitled Permittivity Ceramic Inserts for Submillimeter NMR Imaging of Zebrafish


The Grace Woodward Grants for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine are an outgrowth of the Grace Woodward Endowments to Penn State. These merit-based awards are presented to PSU faculty on a competitive basis for creating or capitalizing on opportunities to use engineering to solve problems in the life sciences and medicine.