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On September 9, the National Science Foundation announced that it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come.

University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering Associate Professor and alum Kimberly Stroka (Ph.D. '11) was awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences to investigate how a particular protein that is known to control water transport across the cell membrane also influences cell migration in a range of physiological and pathological processes.

While gene editing technology has improved crop breeding and adaptation, the process of regrowing a plant from edited cells is costly, lengthy, and unpredictable. Many popular crops are difficult to regenerate with existing methods.