Drug release kinetics of tetracycline from poly(vinyl-alcohol)

A solution containing 0.03 or 0.08 g/ml tetracycline HCI and 0.10 g/ml poly(vinyl-alcohol) was electrospun onto a surgical stent, aluminum alloy cylinders, and freeze dried in a mold. The drug elution of tetracycline from the samples was measured in a 37C PBS bath through spectrophotometry. The diffusivity value for the stent was found to be 3.3 x 10 (m/s), whereas the values for the cylinders and freeze dried samples were 4.73 x 10 and 3.3 x 10 m/s), respectively

Proposing cinema studies at WPI.

The goal of this project was to preserve WPI's 16mm film collection as well as gauge student interest in a WPI film studies program. We discuss the method we used for transferring the seventy-six films to digital video cassettes (DVC) and the problems we encountered. A student survey was used to measure interest in a film program, and the results are analyzed. We also explored the copyright issues involved and possible solutions