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Spotlight on Ohio Research & Innovation News

Ohio State University cardiologist Dr. Blair Suter is one of many physicians testing new virtual reality technologies to enhance medical education and care.  A new software solution -- syGlass -- in clinical care shifts the virtual reality interaction from generic scenarios to those that may benefit real patients.

The transformational potential of innovative energy research projects proposed by two University of Akron College of Engineering and Polymer Science faculty members has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered that boron-doped diamonds could pave the way for faster, more efficient biomedical and quantum optical devices in ways that classical technologies cannot. 

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