IACMI InnoCrates
Lightweight Materials, Materials

“You can see their eyes light up when they learn about something new. Aha, it happened!” shares Vanina Ghossein, her own face beaming. Her enthusiasm for a new curriculum she has helped develop around composites for K-12 is palpable. “I love everything about it–from planning an activity, looking for materials, deciding how students should do it...

BioFabUSA Gina Riamondo
Biofabrication

Health care innovators are working toward a future in which an ailing patient can receive a new bodily organ without having to wait for a human donor.

That’s one piece of the grand vision behind emerging work in biofabrication — which is the manufacture of living cells, tissues, and organs — and it’s part of a potential economic engine that...

LIFT Tony Stark
Lightweight Materials

“I just thought this was the coolest place. It looks like Tony Stark’s basement, so I said, ‘Let’s do this!’”

That was New Jersey native turned Michigan resident Staff Sgt. Cameron Homburg’s reaction to his first visit to LIFT, the Detroit-based Department of Defense national manufacturing innovation institute, as he considered what his civilian...

MxD Pandemic
MxD
Cybersecurity

The COVID-19 pandemic fractured the global supply chain in many places, with shortages ranging from PPE to semiconductors to consumer products. But even before the turmoil began in spring 2020, supply chains were vulnerable.

Natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires and other unexpected developments like labor strikes and political unrest...