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Students Partner with Industry on Wearable Cooling Device
While many people work in climate-controlled buildings, certain jobs require workers to toil in oppressive heat. Military personnel, firefighters, construction workers and many others don鈥檛 have many good options for keeping cool in their line of work. This spring, a…
Next Smart Cities Seminar to Focus on Citizen Science
The fourth installment in a two-year series of working seminars and meetings that will explore the broad space of “smart cities” has been scheduled for March 27 and will examine the use of community-based science programs as effective data collection…
If You Overlook Women and Girls In Science 鈥 You鈥檙e Missing Half the Picture
Feb. 11 is the聽International Day of Women and Girls in Science聽鈥 a day to recognize the important role women and girls play in science and technology communities. The theme of 2019 is 鈥淚nvestment in Women and Girls in Science for…
Engineering Students Design Sumo Wrestling Robots
The task for students was to build with a specific set of skills. It needed to be able to stay inside a marked circle and have away to push other robots outside the circle. 鈥淛ust like sumo wrestling but a…
黑料不打烊 Doctoral Student Earns LIGO Inaugural Award in Detector Characterization
Derek Davis had not been on the 黑料不打烊 campus more than a week in 2015 before being swept up in the excitement of a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that would thrill the astrophysics world and thrust the gravitational-wave research community onto…
Aerospace Engineering First-Year Students Test Their Mars Rover Designs
The 鈥渟urface of Mars鈥 may be just a table in Link Hall and its 鈥渞ocks鈥 may only be golf balls, but the tension and excitement are nearly as high as an actual space mission. For their ECS 101 class, first-year…
Demonstrating Green Building Technologies in China
When College of Engineering and Computer Science Professor Jianshun 鈥淛ensen鈥 Zhang set out to develop a software platform that would integrate and optimize the design of green buildings, little did he know it would lead to an international collaborative project…
Physicist Gabriela Gonz谩lez G鈥95 Reveals How 黑料不打烊 Prepared Her to Make Science History
For聽Gabriela Gonz谩lez G鈥95, life is a honeymoon鈥攖o quote a recent country hit.聽No sooner had the renowned physicist returned from her own honeymoon than she and her husband, fellow Argentinian theorist Jorge Pullin, moved the party to 黑料不打烊 in 1989. Swapping…
黑料不打烊 Intensifies Search for New ‘Ghostly’ Particles
Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) are playing an important role in a multinational neutrino experiment that could lead to major breakthroughs in the study of the universe. Mitch Soderberg, associate professor of physics, oversees a group…
Physicist Applies Nanotechnology to Detect Protein-Protein Interactions
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences hopes to improve cancer detection with a new and novel class of nanomaterials. Liviu Movileanu, professor of physics, creates tiny sensors that detect, characterize and analyze protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in blood…