Monday, April 13, 2009
Erickson wins 2009 NSF CAREER award

Professor David Erickson has won a 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work on "Optofluidics - Fusing Microfluidics with Photonics". The CAREER award is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research. The grant will allow Professor Erickson to perform a series of fundamental studies aimed at: (1) Developing a new form of microfluidic transport that exploits the electromagnetic energy in photonic devices to capture, transport and separate particles and (2) Creating a new class of reconfigurable photonic system that uses microfluidic devices to transport, switch and modify light.