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£6M UK Grant Boosts 3D Printed Medicine and More
Researchers at the University of Nottingham‘s Centre for Additive Manufacturing (CfAM) in the UK received a £6 million ($7.4 million) grant from the British government to develop a toolkit that…
Ulendo Receives $250K NSF Grant for 3D Printing Calibration Software
One of the common challenges with fused filament 3D printers is vibration. Running printers at high speeds often leads to excessive vibrations, which can generate low-quality prints with surface defects,…
Arizona State University and PADT Receive Grant to Research Biomimicry and 3D Printing
Biomimicry is the the practice of basing design off of natural structures, such as honeycombs, for example. It has been used frequently in conjunction with 3D printing, as researchers, designers and…
University of Pittsburgh Receives $1M Grant to Study 3D Printing for Nuclear Components
There is a great deal of promise for the use of 3D printing in the nuclear power industry, but there are also a number of challenges. The parts required for…
Praxair Surface Technologies Announces Winners of TruForm Additive Manufacturing Grant
Praxair Surface Technologies (PST) is a leading supplier of metal powders to the additive manufacturing industry. Its powders include cobalt-, copper-, iron-, nickel- and titanium-based alloys, which are marketed under the…
Montana Educator Uses Robo 3D Printers to Teach Her Fifth Grade Students How to Succeed
Teachers in classrooms all around the world are always on the lookout for new ways to inspire their students that will also mesh well with their traditional teaching methods and…
ActivArmor and Aniwaa Both Receive Funding to Further 3D Printing Businesses
The worst part about breaking a bone is the pain and bodily damage. The second worst part is the inconvenience of having to wear a cast, and one of the…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 27, 2017
Congratulations, we’ve all made it to Friday somehow! To celebrate, take a look at all of today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, compiled just for you in one article. The University…
Nano Dimension to Develop 3D Printed Ceramic Components for Space, Raises $4.8M in Private Placement Agreements
This winter, not long after Nano Dimension brought its innovative DragonFly 2020 3D printer to CES 2017, the company surprised everyone when it announced that it would be moving into a brand new…
Industrial 3D Printing Advances in Canada: University of Waterloo Receives $8.9M Government Investment for World-Class Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab
Canada is going all in with 3D printing—if the University of Waterloo has anything to do with it. About to make very good use of a federal grant for $8.9…
Submit Your 3D Printing Project for a Chance to Win $500 from 3D Hubs’ Student Grant 2017
3D Hubs has become more than just a network of 3D printers. It’s become a trusted source of consumer reporting for the 3D printing industry, a facilitator of social engagement, and…
NASA’s Early Stage Innovations Grants Awarded to 13 Universities; Several to Explore 3D Printing
In several years, it’s going to be very interesting indeed to see what comes of 13 early stage innovation space technology grants just awarded to universities around the US via…
SolidProfessor Expands Technology Grant Program so More Students Can Receive Technological Training at Reduced Cost
Like everything else, there’s a good and a bad side to the lightning-fast advancement of technology. The benefits outweigh the problems, in my opinion, as lives are saved and jobs are…
Shapeways Catches Us Up on Recent EDU Grants for Innovative 3D Printing Projects
In an effort to encourage more 3D printing in higher education, twice yearly Shapeways offers five $1,000 grants to college professors and students whose work “push(es) the boundaries of the materials and technology…
New Matter Announces Recipients of Educate and Inspire Grant, Donates $200,000 in 3D Printers and Supplies
Teachers, no matter what discipline or age group they work with, share two major goals: to educate, and to inspire. The more idealistic among them may believe that the two…
Binghamton Engineer Uses $500,000 Grant for Redefining 3D Printing via Electrospray
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already reached any sort of crossroads where 3D printing could already need redefining, but if you think about it, makers and scientists have been…
3D Printed Stent May Soon Give Hope to Esophageal Cancer Patients
Pretty much everyone I know, myself included, has lost someone to cancer, many of them far too young. Finding a cure for cancer is the lofty, ultimate goal for medical researchers, and…
New Matter to Donate $200,000 Worth of 3D Printers and Supplies to US Schools
CES 2016 events have begun in Las Vegas! The consumer technology symposium, which runs until the end of the week, always attracts a lot of big names, and this year is no exception….
Colorado School of Mines Awarded $2.5 Million to Study Metal 3D Printing
Metal 3D printing has come a long way towards being more affordable and accessible in the past year, but it still has a ways to go. It’s still one of…
RIT to Serve as Host for 3D Printing R&D Center & Consortium Receiving $921,000 Annual Grant
Many might be under the impression that we’ve mastered 3D printing for the most part. The technology is figured out, there’s a busy community out there making ‘things,’ and a…
America Makes Grants Another $1.7 Million to University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering Faculty for 3D Printing R&D
All the many different levels of 3D printing technology can be an immersive, multi-faceted study–and researchers at University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering are about to experience it further…
4D Printing on The Nanoscale — Northwestern’s IIN Receives $8.5 Million Grant
As 3D printing has barely slid into the category of being considered a new normal, some scientists and researchers are already living in the world of 4D. You may have…
$3 Million Grant Provided to Universities For 3D Printing Research
When it comes to new technologies, which promise to change our lives in more ways than are imaginable, there is no better way to ensure that a country stays at the…