2013 UC Merced Research Enterprise Book

Table of Contents

19 A New Cell Fixative that Greatly Extends Freezer Life of Harvested Tissue/Cells for Immunohistologic, Molecular and Flow Cytometric Analysis

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Innovation Begins Here

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Annual Research Funding

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Researcher Brings Billions of Years of Information to UC Merced

20 The UC Merced Mobile App Challenge

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22 Combined Heat and Power Solar System

Virtual Reality for Customized, Remote and Monitored Physical Therapy

23 Vehicle Carrier for Cardiac Tissue Engineered Grafts

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Mobile Indoor Localization and Navigation System Using Wi-Fi Signal Signatures and Machine Learning Techniques

24 Young Faculty Profile: Professor Min Hwan Lee

26 Undergraduate Database Research Recommendation System

10 The Innovation and Design Clinic Challenge

27 Exact Optics with Total Internal Reflection for Use as a Super Telephoto Lens or Telescope

12 Round, Multisection Recycle Bin

14 A Rapid Method for Detecting and Identifying Bacterial Contamination Using Differential Calorimetry 15 Activated Charcoal Composite Biomaterial Promotes hESC Differentiation Toward Neuronal Lineages

28 A Time Out for Some

Computational Chemistry

30 Graduate Student Profile: Melissa Ricketts

32 Internal Compound Parabolic Concentrator

16 Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry

18 Fluorescent Embryonic Stem Cell Lines for Studying Vascular Development

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