Season 3: Environmental and human health

In Season 3, we are focusing on stories of how research in engineering at Oregon State can impact broad areas such as cancer treatment, food contamination and the detection of nuclear weapons tests. 

Professor Eugene Zhang drawing on whiteboard.
From Toy Story to tumors
Advances in 3D graphics have made movies and video games more realistic, but can also have an impact on science. Associate Professor Eugene Zhang and …

Left to right: Steven Czyz, Lily Ranjbar, and Salam Alhawsawi having a conversation.
Enforcing the CTBT with CZT
How do you prove someone tested a nuclear weapon? Researchers Steven Czyz, Lily Ranjbar, and Salam Alhawsawi from the Radiation Detection Group at Oregon State are…

Grad students Le Zhen (ChE), Fanghui Ren (ECE) and Jing Yang (ECE) use a Raman spectrophotometer with a microscope to focus a laser on optical biosensors.
Sensors from the sea
Biosensor technology is used to detect a wide variety of substances — from drugs, to cancer biomarkers, to chemical contaminants in our food and drinking water. Diatoms…

Associate Professor Pallavi Dhagat sitting at a desk.
Magnetic materials for medicine
What are magnetic nanoparticles and how can they be used in medicine? Oregon State Associate Professor Pallavi Dhagat and graduate student Phil Lenox explain the…