Posts Tagged silk
Tufts Professor on the Wonders of Silk
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Active Citizenship, Environment, Faculty, International, Research, School of Engineering, Video on May 11, 2011
Tufts professor of biomedical engineering Fiorenzo Omenetto joins the ranks of fellow thought-leaders such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Richard Dawkins and Bill Gates as a TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) Talk speaker. TED is a global set of conferences owned by Sapling Foundation, a non-profit that has provided a forum for thinkers to share their vision with the public.
In this video, Omenetto discusses his work with silk, telling audiences about all its wonderful uses and the hope the material holds for a more environmentally sustainable world, better access to health care and many other needs we face today:
Science as Art
Posted by Georgy Cohen in Photos, Research, School of Engineering, Students, Web on February 2, 2011
A scanning electron microscopy image of a micro patterned silk surface recently placed first in the annual “Science as Art” competition sponsored by the Materials Research Society.
The photograph was taken by Konstantinos Tsioris (E’13), a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering working in the Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Biophotonics Laboratory at Tufts.