Paul Heney

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Dan Arvizu, the Chancellor of New Mexico State University. Arvizu also sits on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and was the first Hispanic to lead a DOE National Laboratory. One of the things we touched on what makes engineers…

International Freezer Challenge honors Univ. of Illinois with 2021 “Winning Streak Award.” By Becky Chambers Hennessy, contributing writer (This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one, Facing sustainability in the lab, here.) The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is continuing a hot streak in arguably the coolest competition around. The university was recognized…

By Becky Chambers Hennessy, contributing writer Scientific research leaders are taking a long look in the mirror. They see their laboratories as home to beneficial scientific breakthroughs, in areas from epidemiology and the coronavirus to climate change and greenhouse gases. They’re also recognizing them as resource-intensive spaces with enormous carbon footprints. It’s an irony that’s…

Supercomputers are very large and powerful computers able to perform calculations much more rapidly than general-purpose computers. They achieve this with a massively parallel architecture. Today’s supercomputers use the same off-the-self processors, operating at the same clock speeds, as desktop computers, but they have a large number of them so that many calculations can be…

A rheometer is an instrument which characterizes the flow of a substance in response to forces, its rheology. A viscometer measures a fluid’s resistance to deformation at a given rate. This gives a single parameter, viscosity, for the fluid. Newtonian fluids have a fixed viscosity at a given temperature. As the applied force is increased,…

By Mark Jones A century is how long it took for one bad chemistry choice to run its course. The end of August 2021 was the end of what can only be described as a sad century in the history of chemistry. At the end of August, headlines proclaimed the world finally stopped using leaded…

By Gordon Feller, Contributing Writer Increasingly, trilateral R&D partnerships — linking government with academia and industry — are considered critical to the success of Silicon Valley. Such mixed partnerships succeed when they link industrial firms with governments with universities, especially as real-world variations of the “triple helix” model of innovation, which is a more common…

The winners in the 2021 R&D 100 Awards in the Process/Prototyping and Software/Services categories have been announced by R&D World magazine in a virtual ceremony broadcast from Cleveland, Ohio. This renowned worldwide competition, now in its 59th year, received entries from 17 countries/regions. This year, the judging panel included nearly 40 well-respected industry professionals across…

The winners in the 2021 R&D 100 Awards in the MechanicalMaterials category have been announced by R&D World magazine in a virtual ceremony broadcast from Cleveland, Ohio. This renowned worldwide competition, now in its 59th year, received entries from 17 countries/regions. This year, the judging panel included nearly 40 well-respected industry professionals across the globe.…

The winners in the 2021 R&D 100 Awards in the first two categories (Analytical/Test and IT/Electrical) have been announced by R&D World magazine in a virtual ceremony broadcast from Cleveland, Ohio. This renowned worldwide competition, now in its 59th year, received entries from 17 countries/regions. This year, the judging panel included nearly 40 well-respected industry…

Medalists in the 2021 R&D 100 Special Recognition categories have been announced by R&D World magazine. This renowned worldwide competition, now in its 59th year, received entries from 17 countries/regions. This year, the judging panel included nearly 40 well-respected industry professionals across the globe. These five Special Recognition categories were established to honor specific aspects…

Paul and Aimee are back after a short hiatus, and they’re rambling around in the kitchen. Please join co-hosts Paul Heney and Aimee Kalnoskas, who return with another exciting episode of R&D 100 – The Podcast. Episode 6 is now live! With this episode, Paul and Aimee make some avocado toast (!) to get them in…

After surveying this year’s R&D 100 Awards Finalists, the decision has been made that we’ll once again skip an in-person awards banquet and host a three-day celebration of our Winners from October 19-21. This will also include the announcement of our Gold, Silver, and Bronze medalists in the five Special Recognition award categories. Each webinar…

This year’s iteration of the esteemed R&D 100 Awards features a judging panel comprised of nearly 40 professionals from across the globe, who boast an impressive collection of accomplishments and honors. Finalists for the R&D 100 were announced here on the R&D World website on August 26th. Winners, as well as the Special Recognition category…

All 2021 R&D 100 Winners, Finalists, and Special Recognition Medalists are free to use these logos in marketing, advertising, promotion, on social media, etc. Right click on images for the full-size .png files or right click on the text below for .pdf files. Congratulation to all of the 2021 Winners, Finalists and Medalists! Winner PDF…

Finalists for the 2021 R&D 100 Awards have been announced by R&D World magazine. This renowned worldwide competition, now in its 59th year, received entries from 17 different countries/regions. This year, the judging panel included nearly 50 well-respected industry professionals across the globe. “We weren’t sure what to expect with the impact that COVID-19 has…

Brix refractometers are a common instrument used to measure the sugar content of a solution. Increasing sugar content leads to an increase in the refractive index. By passing light through a sample and measuring the refraction, the amount that the light bends, the sugar content can be measured. Brix refractometers are calibrated using the brix…

A refractometer measures the index of refraction for a material, which could be a gas, a liquid or a transparent solid such as glass. They achieve this by passing light through the sample and measuring the refraction — the amount that the light bends. Most commonly, aqueous solutions are measured, providing an indication concentration. Examples…

R&D World has won multiple awards in the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) annual publication awards competition, the Azbees. The publication won regional awards in a diverse group of categories in the 2021 iteration of the awards, including a Gold Award in Opening Page or Spread, a design category; a Bronze Award in…

We’re back! Join co-hosts Paul Heney and Aimee Kalnoskas, who return with another exciting episode of R&D 100 – The Podcast. Episode 5 is now live! With this episode, Paul and Aimee delve into the incredible technology behind Abbott’s Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder, a 2020 R&D 100 Award winner. This is a self-expanding, wire mesh device that is…

Computers have got faster over time, much faster, and it’s not just about the speed that an individual processor can perform calculations, they also have many more processors, all performing different calculations at the same time. Quantum computing is something different entirely, its not about performing arithmetic faster, its an entirely new way of computing…

Recently, I interviewed master inventor Dean Kamen, well known as the inventor of the stair climbing wheelchair and the Segway, as well as the creator of the FIRST Robotics competitions for school children. I explained to Dean how R&D World’s Global Funding Forecast was reporting that China will outspend the U.S. for the very first…

The COVID-19 pandemic created numerous issues in early 2020 relating to academic R&D. When the pandemic first spread throughout the U.S. in March, schools were among the first establishments to close their facilities to prevent the spread of the virus. This remained the standard operating mode through the end of the year.  With no students,…

Protein titer monitoring is a common test used to determine the concentration of a specific protein in a sample. For example, it can be used to detect antibodies, or to control the manufacturing process for a protein-based biopharmaceutical. Protein titer monitoring can be performed as a manual test or may be automated. A titer is…