Recent News
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Citizen scientists in bloom
CategoriesRecent PhD graduate Ikbal Choudhury's nonprofit Open Field Collective uses low-cost, low-resource tools to teach children about environmental science. The collective's flagship algal bloom monitoring program is now tracking ecosystem health in the U.S., India, and Bangladesh.
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The creation of a public database will increase accessibility for all users, including academics and engineers who are developing more sustainable energy solutions.
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The AstroJays, an undergraduate rocketry team, traveled to California to compete in a Friends of Amateur Rocketry competition earlier this summer.
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The Terradynamics Lab developed a cockroach-inspired legged robot - called OmniRoach - that can traverse multiple types of large obstacles and self-right, capabilities that are required for effective operation in complex 3-D terrain.
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Miguel X. Diaz-Lopez, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive two prestigious national research fellowships.
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Yun Chen receives DARPA award
CategoriesChen's award project is “Fibrosis, Inflammation, Revascularization, and Migration (FIRM) Modulation for Muscle Regeneration.”
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Lunar landings
CategoriesTo prepare for NASA's Artemis missions, graduate students Juan Sebastian Rubio, Miguel X. Diaz-Lopez, and Matt Gorman ran a series of experiments to understand plume surface interactions— or what will happen when a landing spacecraft approaches the lunar surface.