March 5, 2015, by Lisa Chin
UNMC Representatives for the Thinkable Open Innovation Award
Vote for our students for the Thinkable Open Innovation Award!
The Thinkable Innovation Award is a research grant that is open to all researchers in any field from around the world. Participants are required to tell us about their innovative research in a video or animation. The winner of the award will be chosen by an open vote from fellow Thinkable researchers and members. This empowers the participants to share their research submission widely during the voting period in hope to accelerate their long-term Thinkable fanbase for their research. The winner of the award will receive $AUD5000 to help fund his/her research.
Thinkable is a platform that allows anyone to engage with and fund the research that matters most to them. Its mission is to connect the world with scientific research and fund new transformative ideas. To know more about Thinkable, please go to its website at: http://www.thinkable.org/about/.
UNMC is represented by two of our postgraduate students – Sadia Afreen and Bhamini Bhujun. Both of them are competing against 46 other researchers.
“It’s not only me and my research; it’s YOU and ALL OF US.
Because cancer is a threat to all people, all generations, all races, all countries and all ages in time.
So let’s fight together, your vote can raise the fund for this research and make some changes in early stage cancer detection.
One Vote, Big Difference.
PLEASE SUPPORT AND SPREAD.”
– Sadia is a PhD student from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.
*To vote for Sadia, please go to the voting tool at: http://thinkable.org/submission/2077
“The world is facing an energy crisis. We all know about the benefits of solar energy but the real challenge remains energy storage. The limitations of batteries are many. My research makes use of supercapacitors as energy storage devices. Supercapacitors can store high electrical energy in a tiny package. They charge faster and store more charge as opposed to batteries. Imagine plugging a laptop for a few seconds and having it fully charged. The active material I use in supercapacitors is rust- which is cheap and widely available. So, in near future, dead batteries will be history.”
– Bhamini is a PhD student from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
*To vote for Bhamini, please go to the voting tool at: http://thinkable.org/submission/2078
Voting will stay open until 11:59 (GMT) on 30th April 2015. So please make sure you vote for your favourite research idea!
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