On June 11, 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering graduate students Eric Foltz, left, and Nick Newman, right, and faculty adviser Tim Osswald, center, peer through the honeycomb pattern of an early prototype for non-pneumatic tire they helped create. As part of a $6 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, the three are working with Resilient Technologies of Wausau, Wis., to design and develop an airless vehicle tire for military use.
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