Microfluidics Lab | WSU Vancouver
Welcome to the homepage of Dr. Jie Xu’s Microfluidics Laboratory.
Engineering at micro- and nano-level is a key to solving today’s global challenges. Just like the miniaturization of electronic chips at the end of last century, today’s mechanical engineers are following the same road map towards lab on a chip - tiny fluid processors.
Our research focus is on exploring micro interfacial sciences and creating revolutionary micro/nanofluidic systems to address pressing problems involving health, energy and environment.
This website presents our teaching and research activities. You are welcome to look at our publications and people. For those who are interested in joining the Microfluidics lab, please look at our positions.
NEWS: Our undergraduate researcher Benjamin Coder, and his teammates Grant Micheal, Paul Osborne and Jonathon Spafford, has been awarded a research grant from Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid program. Sigma Xi, the Scientific Resarch Society, is an international, multidisciplinary research society founded in 1886. Over the course of the Society's distinguished history, more than 200 members have won the Nobel Prize including Albert Einstein. The Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research program has a highly competitive application process and only approximately 20% of applicants receive any level of funding. The $500 fund will support Ben for a novel heat transfer related project.
NEWS: Nan Lei successfully defended his thesis! Congratulations!
NEWS: Undergraduate researcher Marina Reilly-Collette is awarded 2012 WSUV Distinguished Woman of the Year. This award honors women who have inspired, mentored and empowered other. Congratulations!
NEWS: Dr. Jie Xu has received DARPA Young Faculty Award.
Out of 407 applicants, 39 of the nation's brightest young scientists were selected to receive DARPA Young Faculty Award. This award will support Dr. Xu's research on developing novel "ear-on-a-chip" microfluidic systems. Such systems will help us gain understanding into the cause of the No. 1 disablitity in the wars (No. 3 public health issue in US) - hearing loss, and potentially can help scientists find cures in future.
The objective of DARPA's Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Defense Department needs and DARPA's program development process. See more at DARPA webiste.
Also see WSU news: WSU professor helps fight hearing loss, and DARPA press release: DARPA grans more than $11M to young scientists.
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