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Jennifer A. Lewis Named Foreign Policy Global Thinker

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday November 29 2014, @05:32PM   
from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Harvard materials scientist Jennifer A. Lewis, whose pioneering work in the field of microscale 3D printing is advancing the development of artificial organs, flexible electronics, and special new materials, has been named among Foreign Policy magazine's "100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014." ( http://globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/ )

Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard ( http://wyss.harvard.edu/ ), was honored among innovators "for showing how ink could reshape the future."

"With her team at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Lewis has printed materials that mimic the lightweight strength of balsa wood for potential use in wind turbines and batteries that could streamline the assembly of small electronics," the Foreign Policy editors wrote. "In February, her team reported that it had printed cellular tissue constructs with embedded blood vessels—a step toward the manufacture of artificial organs."
"Lewis's work shows that 3D printing won't just change how people make things," they wrote. "It will also change what, exactly, people can make."

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/11/jennifer-lewis-named-foreign-policy-global-thinker

• Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday November 29 2014, @07:42PM

  by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday November 29 2014, @07:42PM (#121155)

  I misread the headline, did a double take, and re-read it.

  Says something about my brain as I get older, I guess.

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  • Re:Jennifer Lawrence (Score: 2) by davester666 on Sunday November 30 2014, @06:24AM

    by davester666 (155) on Sunday November 30 2014, @06:24AM (#121218)

    Hell, it's intentionally misleading. The title implies she was appointed to a gov't position, presumably in the State department, while it really refers to a top 100 list put out by a magazine that probably less than 10,000 people actually know exists, let alone have read it even once.

    Less misleading:

    Jennifer A. Lewis named among 100 Leading Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.

    Parent

• hamburger helper (Score: 1) by takyon on Saturday November 29 2014, @11:02PM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Saturday November 29 2014, @11:02PM (#121181) Journal

  You can't have good artificial meat without a few blood vessels.

  To bring such promising achievements to fruition, research in the Lewis lab entails innovation in both materials and manufacturing techniques. Lewis and her team have developed new classes of concentrated colloidal, fugitive organic, polymer, hydrogel, and sol-gel inks for pen-on-paper, inkjet, roll-to-roll and 3D printing. To expedite the transformation of 3D printing from a prototyping to a manufacturing platform, her team has also recently demonstrated high-throughput printing of multiple materials via multinozzle arrays.

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• Comment Below Threshold

  Women (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 30 2014, @06:09AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 30 2014, @06:09AM (#121215)

  Women. Fuck women.

  They have taken over the world.
  They banned men marrying young girls everywhere.