Designing better ways to deliver drugs

Graduate student and MathWorks Fellow Louis DeRidder is developing a device to make chemotherapy dosing more accurate for individual patients.

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The man who reinvented the hammer

A trip to Walmart. An aging German shepherd. A cheap disposable camera.

These are just a few of the seemingly mundane things that have sparked the relentlessly imaginative mind of Kurt Schroder ’90, leading to some of his groundbreaking inventions.