Dr. Teresa Woodruff (PAESMEM Organizational 2010) has been named the new dean of The Graduate School and associate provost for graduate education at Northwestern University. Woodruff, a recognized reproductive scientist, helped invent bioactive “tissue papers” derived from organs that could be used to support natural hormone production in young cancer patients and aid wound healing.

Maja Matarić (PAESMEM 2009) is featured in PC Magazine for her work at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she helped children obtain cancer treatments intravenously through 3-D printed, small robots. Matarić created the robots at the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center, which focuses on science and technology of effective, robust, and scalable robotic systems with far-reaching applications.