FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 6 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
The Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R) at the University of Arkansas has welcomed Elisa Castagnola as an associate professor and its first faculty member jointly appointed with the Department of Physics. Castagnola, an NSF CAREER Award recipient, brings $1.25 million in active research funding to advance implantable technologies that reveal how the brain works in real time.
Castagnola develops neural interfaces that can monitor the brain's electrical and chemical activity over long periods. Her work brings together bioengineering, materials science, neuroscience and physics to create tools for neurological research and, ul...