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Ph.D. candidate Scott Moreland is building robots and designing soft- ware for the “Reefbot” project at the Robotics Institute, working on a team led by Associate Research Profes- sor David Wettergreen, a courtesy faculty member at MechE. The team is developing a remotely piloted, sub- mersible robot that can photograph fish. This technology might someday be used by scientists to automati- cally detect, classify, and count fish in natural habitats. A prototype is already being used by visitors to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, a partner in the project.
scientific and medical research. The paper, called “Detection of Dynamic Spatiotemporal Response to Periodic Chemical Stimulation in a Xenopus Embryonic Tissue,” was co-authored by Professors William Messner and Philip LeDuc, along with two researchers from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Doctoral student JuEun Lee was recently featured on the home page of the Carnegie Mel- lon Web site for
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Sophomore Amber Ohiokpehai recently co-designed a fashion line for the “Lunar Gala: Mélange” fashion show, held in Wiegand Gym in February. Ohiokpehai and Gabe Ratliff, a junior art major, designed a line called “Rags to Riches,” with proceeds benefiting orphans in Manila, Philippines. Their patterned pieces had a Southeast Asian style and were inspired by the orphans. • • • • •
Graduate student YongTae (Tony) Kim was a co-author of a paper recently published in PLoS ONE, an interactive open-access journal for the communication of peer-reviewed
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her work aimed at understanding mechanical and thermal aspects of orthopedic surgeries. When bones are drilled during surgery, high tem- perature and force can cause thermal injury and cracking, which can delay recovery time or cause greater injury. Lee hopes to improve surgical out- comes with her research, overseen by Professors Burak Ozdoganlar and Yoed Rabin. Read the full story at
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/ health/2010/fall/improving-surgeries. shtml.
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Graduate student Madhur Kaushik is a key member of the Carnegie Mellon Cricket Club team, which placed third in the first-ever American College Cricket Midwest Champion- ship, held at Ohio State University in September. Seven teams competed in the Championship for the E. Gordon Gee Trophy. Kaushik was the top scorer in the Carnegie Mellon team’s game against the College of Wooster, its cricketing rivals, with 76 runs. The fall season also marked the first-ever CIT versus Tepper cricket match at Gesling Stadium, with the CIT team emerging victorious. • • • • •
Freshman Katy Wooten recently met President Barack Obama as part of the all-female “Rock N’ Roll Robots” team, sponsored by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Woo- ten and two other team members were honored for winning the FIRST Tech Challenge Inspire Award, the most prestigious honor at the FIRST Robotics Competition. The team was formed when the participants were part of a Girl Scout troop in Greater Los Angeles who signed up for the national FIRST program (For Inspira- tion and Recognition of Science and Technology). Their team won first place at the FIRST Robotics Champi- onships in Atlanta during the 2007- 2008 school year.
Katy Wooten (far right) is shown in Washington, D.C. Also shown (left to right) are JPL mentor Julie Townsend, Cal State Polytech student Taylor Halsey, and Academy of Art student Salia Wilson.
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The game “Ultimate Ninja” has conventionally been used as a fun bonding exercise by Carnegie Mellon students. But senior Rosie Weisburgh created an event in October which used a giant game of Ultimate Ninja to raise awareness about domestic violence.“Ninjas
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