Ranjana Mehta had just finished presenting her work on occupational fatigue at a conference when a first responder approached her with a somewhat startling request: Could the neuroergonomics researcher look…
If Michael Biehler’s research is successful, he will help enable soft robotics that can self-assemble inside the human body, as well as dynamic, protective packaging for everything from food to…
Midway through an explanation of his research into some of the murkier corners of the mathematical universe, Alberto Del Pia cuts himself off. “I understand this is complicated,” says the…
If Hantang Qin and his collaborators succeed in putting their 3D-printing technology on the International Space Station, they don’t want it to merely operate in zero gravity. They want it…
A historic $75 million gift will fuel construction of a much-needed new engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With their lead gift—the largest single gift in college history—brothers and…
As a silicon wafer winds its way through a semiconductor manufacturing plant—from deposition and lithography to etching and dicing—each stop at another machine loaded with sensors also generates information. And…
Soon after starting a master’s program in operations research at Georgia Tech, Dan Li remained restless. She wanted more—more challenging courses, more avenues to make a wider-reaching impact. And so…
Even as racial disparities in screenings for colorectal cancer have narrowed, the discrepancies in outcomes between Black and white Americans remain stubbornly wide. Black adults are 23% more likely to…
In the end, Rayne Wolf could hardly bear to look at the monitor attached to the microscope she and her labmates had set up in a hangar at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood…
Large language models like ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence are quickly reshaping the world. But in many cases, these systems are imposing a viewpoint based on the biases…