December 7, 2015
By Emma Brewer As an engineering student, I’m excited about the growing field of green infrastructure. It is a fairly new industry with innovative advancements in technology that are changing the built environment to coexist with the natural ...
Read More about Extremely Green—Designing Living BuildingsDecember 7, 2015
By Eddie Devino On a typical first day of a college course, the professor introduces themselves, hands out their syllabus, covers it in depth, and starts lecturing. But, when eight students, including myself, met in a small conference ...
Read More about SUstainable—Shedding a New Light on LearningDecember 4, 2015
Professor Sara Eftekharnejad has been awarded a $499, 550 National Science Foundation grant to investigate securing the smart grid from cyberthreats. The findings of this research will establish the foundations for protecting the most critical assets in power ...
Read More about Eftekharnejad Secures Grant to Protect Power Systems from CyberattacksDecember 4, 2015
Researchers, particularly those in the medical field, have been searching for a way to combine the properties of liquid crystallinity with those of hydrogels. Liquid crystals are characterized as having the fluidity of liquid but some of ...
Read More about Polymer Puts New Medical Solutions Within ReachDecember 3, 2015
Entrepreneurship initiatives within schools from across campus are working together to collect applications from current and aspiring student entrepreneurs to enter the first annual Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Innovation Challenge. Students with a business idea or startup venture ...
Read More about Students Can Enter First ACC Innovation ChallengeDecember 1, 2015
Jessica Wilkerson ’13 is watching software envelop the world from an interesting vantage point—atop Capitol Hill. As an oversight associate for the Committee on Energy and Commerce, she advises on cybersecurity policy matters from her uniquely informed perspective. ...
Read More about Alumna Interprets Cybersecurity on Capitol HillNovember 30, 2015
By Carter Yagemann A recent discovery in the security community has researchers concerned about Dell devices. Some of these devices have been found to contain something known as a self signed root certificate. Installed by the manufacturer for advertising ...
Read More about Understanding Dell’s Root Certificate ProblemNovember 24, 2015
Professor Pramod K. Varshney has been awarded a $350, 000 Missile Defense Agency grant through the Boston Fusion Corporation. Varshney will work with Boston Fusion, a data analytics and research company, to develop a parametric framework to ...
Read More about Varshney Receives Grant for Missile Defense ResearchNovember 23, 2015
Few places are as suitable as Florence, Italy—renowned as the epicenter of the Renaissance— for higher learning. This past spring, a group of second-year students studying aerospace, civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering participated ...
Read More about Engineers Take ItalyNovember 23, 2015
Professor Cliff Davidson, the Thomas C. and Colleen L. Wilmot Professor of Engineering, has been named a 2015 Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors (AEESP) Fellow. The honor is bestowed for long-term excellence in environmental research, teaching, ...
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