Student Briefs

Jun 21 2011

Denise Conti, a chemical engineering and materials science PhD candidate, won first place in the Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics category at Wayne State’s 2011 Graduate Exhibition.  Conti presented on "Propellant-based inhalers for the non-invasive delivery of genes to the lungs," the result of her first two years of PhD research.  Conti’s work shows how it is possible to formulate genes (DNA, in this specific study) for oral inhalation to the

Inspired by faith, graduate student uses education to serve others

Jun 13 2011

When he graduates in spring 2011 with a master’s degree in civil engineering, Timothy Carter will embark on a different path than most other engineers. The WSU student plans to use his engineering education to aid people in developing and impoverished countries, as he has done in Cameroon, Kenya and Haiti. Carter says his faith inspires him to use his talents to help others. “It really just kills me to see all the suffering in the world. I thought, ‘This is how I could use

Graduate Spotlight: Brad Giorio

May 11 2011

Brad Giorio, who earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering technology in December 2010, can trace his career path all the way back to 1992 when the drummer of his band, Lovehammer, quit to move to Washington, D.C., Giorio, who was then studying music at Henry Ford Community College, didn’t want to abandon the songs that the band – which practiced three days a week for eight hours a day – had worked so long on. So Giorio set off on a journey to reproduce the

Ph.D. candidate makes contribution to automotive safety design

May 11 2011

Aditya Belwadi arrived in Detroit in September 2003 from Bangalore, India, with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, determined to study automotive and injury biomechanics at Wayne State University. Today, the 29-year-old research assistant and Ph.D. student has already made a contribution to automotive safety design literature. For his master’s thesis in 2007, Belwadi demonstrated that the human lumbar spine is stronger than prior studies suggested – information