Television as a home entertainment device was knocking on the door in 1939 so a remote control for a TV set was only a decade ...

Thanks to Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) we don’t all have to be farmers to eat fresh food. Her scientific work in ensuring the safe transport of perishable foods (like eggs!) focused on ...

You’ve probably heard of the brilliant minds behind some of today’s most groundbreaking inventions—think the light bulb, the telephone and the World Wide Web. But did you know that not every inventor ...

Eight patents were issued during the past year, and three faculty members — Pradeep Kumar, Xianghong Qian and Ryin Tian — were inducted into the U of A Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors.