Rogers and Huang Honored with Namesake Medal for Collaborative Research at Texas A&M

Northwestern Engineering’s John Rogers and Yonggang Huang are the namesakes of a new medal awarded by Texas A&M University’s Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.

The John Rogers/Yonggang Huang Medal will be an annual award recognizing the best collaborative research paper by a Hagler fellow with a Texas A&M student among the co-authors. Each co-author will receive a Rogers/Huang Medal, and share the $10,000 award. 

The Hagler Institute annually invites several nationally and internationally prominent scholars to pursue advanced study in collaboration with faculty and students at Texas A&M. The center’s goal is to provide an environment where Hagler fellows feel free to pursue their own research interests, as well as collaborate in disciplinary and multidisciplinary research. 

Rogers and Huang are both former Hagler Institute fellows and have remained involved with the center. Longtime collaborators, Rogers and Huang have produced 398 journal articles together since 2005 – one of the most productive collaborative pairs in the history of academic research – working together on materials and engineering designs for bioelectronic technologies, uniquely defined by their ability to gently conform to or embed within soft living tissues. Their joint programs include the development of skin-like, or ‘epidermal’ electronic systems for wireless health monitoring and bioresorbable technologies as temporary therapeutic implants.

Rogers is the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery, and (by courtesy) professor of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dermatology. He also directs the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics.

Huang is the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) professor of materials science and engineering.