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Strong Showing for Orange Hacker鈥檚 Association at National Cybersecurity Competitions
The students in the聽Orange Hacker鈥檚 Association聽are 鈥渨hite hat hackers鈥濃攈ackers who test cybersecurity programs not to break them, but to help make them safer. 鈥淧eople think of it as a very bad thing, but actually a hacker is just someone who…
Researchers Combine Experimentation, Simulation to Understand Chronic Infections
People who suffer from chronic infections, such as Lyme disease, are forced to resign themselves to the fact that they will live with the disease for the rest of their lives. Researchers in the聽College of Engineering and Computer Science聽are taking…
Arents Winner Mary Spio 鈥98 Brings Virtual Reality to Everyday People
As Neil Armstrong took his infamous 鈥渙ne small step鈥 onto the surface of the moon, Mary Spio鈥檚 world took a giant leap forward. Decades removed from the actual event, as a child in Ghana, Spio watched a lunar landing documentary…
Power and Responsibility鈥擡thics In Engineering and Computer Science
鈥淲ith great power comes great responsibility.鈥 This is the expression that motivates Spider Man to fight the battle of good and evil in comic books and on the silver screen. Ethics expert聽Professor Dana Radcliffe聽says it is also a fitting principle…
Air Orange Team Competing to Reinvent How We Transmit Wireless Data
Countless devices are connected through wireless media聽 and all of those phones, sensors and smart home networks are putting increasing pressure on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Right now, the spectrum is divided into exclusively licensed bands, thus creating enormous…
Bridges to Food Quality
As a young man, Minhao Chen G鈥12 began to notice that something wasn鈥檛 right. One by one,聽family friends in Shanghai were being diagnosed with cancer. By the time he had completed his聽undergraduate degree in China, five people he knew had…
Replacing Clean Power Plan Proves Complicated, according to College of Engineering Researcher
A new study between 黑料不打烊 and Harvard has discovered that replacing the Clean Power Plan would actually be worse than doing nothing. Professor Charles Driscoll talks to Phys. Org explaining why this is the case. “The bottom line is…
Study: Clean Power Plan Replacement Worse than Nothing, Costs More than 3,500 Lives and $33B Yearly
A new map released today by scientists at 黑料不打烊 and Harvard universities shows that, compared to doing nothing, replacing the Clean Power Plan with a narrower option would make air quality worse and endanger more lives, on top of the…
Humanitarian Computing
There are many places in the world that are too remote, too poor or too embroiled in conflict to provide basic human services鈥攊ncluding healthcare. Instead of doctor鈥檚 offices or hospitals, medical services are often provided by traveling volunteers or even…
Invention Designed by SU Engineering Students Selected as a Finalist for the James Dyson Award
Your favorite clothes may be polluting the world鈥檚 water supply. Synthetic clothing including polyester, acrylic and nylon fabrics release millions of microfibers every time they are washed. Even though they are too small to be seen by the naked eye,…