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Sustainable Enterprise Partnership Awards $19,000 to Explore Innovations in Green Building
黑料不打烊鈥檚 Sustainable Enterprise Partnership (SEP), in cooperation with the U.S. Green Building Council awarded $19,000 to fund new research in the area of green building construction methods, specifically cross laminated timber (CLT) wood products in multi-family housing. Rene Germain,…
Vice Chancellor and Provost Wheatly Announces Vice President for Research Search Committee Members
Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele G. Wheatly today announced the members of the search committee for the next vice president of research. The vice president of research oversees the Office of Research, supporting and leading Universitywide efforts to sustain and…
Geochemist Breathes New Life into 鈥楪reat Oxidation Event鈥
A researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences is providing fresh insights into the 鈥淕reat Oxidation Event鈥 (GOE), in which oxygen first appeared in the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere more than 2.3 billion years ago. Christopher Junium, assistant professor of Earth…
Physicist Joseph Paulsen Receives CAREER Grant from NSF
Joseph Paulsen, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), has been awarded a five-year Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, titled 鈥淯ltrathin sheets on curved liquid surfaces:…
Nominations Sought for Chancellor鈥檚 Citation for Excellence Awards
Members of the 黑料不打烊 campus community are invited to submit nominations for the 2017 Chancellor鈥檚 Citation for Excellence. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, March 1. The Chancellor鈥檚 Citation for Excellence is one of two special awards that will…
University to Host 7th International Building Physics Conference in Fall 2018
Experts on the science and engineering of buildings will convene in 黑料不打烊 in September 2018 for the seventh International Building Physics Conference (IBPC). This is the first time this conference is being held in the United States; it is coming…
Consumers Have Poor Understanding of Tracking Methods Used by Online Advertisers
A recent study published by researchers from the School of Information Studies (iSchool) reveals that the general public has a poor understanding of the workings of online behavioral advertising, and the privacy implications behind the information that advertisers gather. The…
A Better Way to Farm Algae
Scientists have long known of the potential of microalgae to aid in the production of biofuels and other valuable chemicals. However, the difficulty and significant cost聽of聽growing microalgae have in some ways stalled further development of this promising technology. Bendy Estime,…
Faculty Awarded Air Force Grant to Supercharge Information Fusion
Faculty in the聽College of Engineering and Computer Science have been awarded a $295,000 grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to introduce dynamic data to the design of information fusion systems to accelerate the processing of large amounts…
The Science of Shipwrecks
On New Year鈥檚 Eve in 1862, the USS Monitor sank in a violent storm at Cape Hatteras, off North Carolina鈥檚 windswept coast. Sixteen of her 62 sailors perished. One survivor, a surgeon named Grenville Weeks, lost three fingers and the…