New research into the effects of repeated head impacts on high school football players has shown changes in brain chemistry and metabolism even in players who have not been diagnosed with concussions and suggest the brain may not fully heal during the offseason.

New research findings contradict a fundamental assumption about the functioning of "organic" solar cells made of low-cost plastics, suggesting a new strategy for creating inexpensive solar technology.

ECE researchers have solved a key obstacle in creating the underlying technology for miniature optical sensors to detect chemicals and biological compounds, high-precision spectroscopy, ultra-stable microwave sources, and optical communications systems that transmit greater volumes of information with better quality.

The award from the Marconi Society recognizes individuals who have, at an early age, demonstrated exceptional engineering or scientific research and entrepreneurial capabilities with the potential to create significant advances in telecommunications and the internet. He is advised by Professor Andrew Weiner.

Researchers have created a new "plasmonic oxide material" that could make possible devices for optical communications that are at least 10 times faster than conventional technologies.

ECE's Seng-Liang Wang Hall received a gold level certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, organization, recognizing Wang Hall's best-in-class "green" building strategies and practices.

The IEEE Fellow Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the IEEE Board of Directors for nominees to be conferred the grade of Fellow. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

The award recognizes his pioneering and sustained contributions to "Reliability Physics of Scaled CMOS and More-than-Moore Technologies".

The paper was authored by Professors Alexandra Boltasseva and Vladimir Shalaev, visiting scholar Marcello Ferrera, and graduate students Nathaniel Kinsey, Clayton DeVault, and Jongbum Kim. The title is "Epsilon-near-zero Al-doped ZnO for ultrafast switching at telecom wavelengths". Optica is a new, high-impact journal dedicated to publishing only the most impactful work in optics.

The talk titled "The Physics of Flexible Electronics and the End of Ohm's Law', explained how percolation, phase transition, and fractals are helping shape the emergence of a new class of flexible, foldable, and light-weight electronics.