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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…
College Remembers Professor, Scientist Rubye Torrey G’69
In honor of the one-year anniversary of the death of Rubye P. Torrey G鈥69, the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) pauses to remember one of its most illustrious alumni. Torrey, who died on Oct. 26, 2017, at the age…
Daylong Symposium to Highlight Life Sciences Research Nov. 3
Undergraduate research in the life sciences is the focus of a daylong symposium in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). On Saturday, Nov. 3, A&S will host the third annual Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Symposium in the…
NIH Grant Awarded to Hewett鈥檚 Lab Promotes Diversity in Research
Diversity in science matters to breakthroughs. When more scientists with varied backgrounds and experiences fill laboratories and collaborate on teams, outcomes in innovation and discovery surpass those of less diverse scientific groups, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)….