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Fusion Power, Engineering with a Side of Liberal Arts, Nanocrystal Networks for Artificial Intelligence, and More in the Engineering News SourceThe latest research and features in the Newswise Engineering News Source |
Released: 19-Aug-2017 9:20 AM EDT
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Like any aspiring engineer, first-year student Meredith Vaughn gets excited about building something from the ground up, so Wake Forest University’s new undergraduate engineering program immediately appealed to her. Vaughn is one of approximately 50 students in Wake Forest’s first cohort of undergraduate engineering students who will begin taking classes at Wake Downtown later this month. |
Released: 18-Aug-2017 10:05 AM EDT
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Argonne’s Learning on the Lawn celebration capped 10 weeks of intense discoveries and experimentation for 90 students, led by luminaries from across the laboratory – from nuclear engineers to biologists to experts in exascale computing, systems that will be 50+ times quicker than today’s supercomputers. |
Released: 16-Aug-2017 4:05 PM EDT
Argonne National Laboratory |
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has selected 39 new Gilliam fellows, exceptional doctoral students who have the potential to be leaders in their fields and the desire to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences. |
Released: 16-Aug-2017 2:05 PM EDT
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Murfreesboro City and Rutherford County Schools’ teachers are receiving free tutoring from MTSU physics and astronomy faculty on a “dark” but sizzling subject — the looming total solar eclipse. |
Released: 15-Aug-2017 4:05 PM EDT
Middle Tennessee State University |
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Dr. Richard Addante is five days into a 45-day stay in a simulated space shuttle that will allow researchers to measure the psychological effects of extended isolation in space. |
Released: 11-Aug-2017 12:05 PM EDT
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office |
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NSF funding will help WVU develop inclusive professional identities for engineering students. The program is a cross-campus collaboration between the College of Education and Human Services, the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and the College of Creative Arts. |
Released: 10-Aug-2017 12:05 PM EDT
West Virginia University |
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Science is fascinating to many, but sentences about research full of expert-level terms and descriptions can scare away even the most passionate audiences. Now, scientists have created a free, scientist-friendly “De-Jargonizer” they hope will make science and research accessible to the public. |
Released: 10-Aug-2017 10:05 AM EDT
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Gender, racial, socioeconomic and other equity gaps in STEM-related careers are more than a “pipeline problem.” That being said, what are colleges and universities like Wake Forest doing to help close these gaps? |
Released: 8-Aug-2017 1:05 PM EDT
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For 21 years, the National Science Foundation has supported summer undergraduate research at UAB. The 10 students at UAB this summer came from schools as far-flung as San Diego State and Brigham Young, and as different in size as Oakwood University and the 52,000-student University of Florida. |
Released: 7-Aug-2017 2:05 PM EDT
University of Alabama at Birmingham |