Nightly Business Report Segment Now Online

A news segment on nanotechnology’s role in food safety, filmed this summer for PBS' Nightly Business Report and featuring professors from and affiliated with the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, is now available online.

Correspondent Dana Greenspon visited the Kim Building's Functional Macromolecular Laboratory and other campus destinations to learn about how nanotechnology could impact food science, technology, and packaging. Among the faculty interviewed were Professor Gregory Payne, Director of UMBI's Center for Biosystems Research and Graduate Program in Bioengineering affiliate faculty member; and The Fischell Department of Bioengineering's Professor Peter Kofinas, Director of the Graduate Program in Bioengineering.

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Published November 14, 2007