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Doctoral students Lina Gonzalez, Rachel Jackson, and Patrick Dougherty have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships. Gonzalez is a student of Professor Philip LeDuc, while Jackson recently joined the team of Assistant Professor Steve Collins. Dougherty is a first-year Ph.D. student working with Associate Professor Fred Higgs.
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Vitali Brand, Henry Kung, Sam Powers, and Emrecan Soylemez— along with Associate Professor Maarten de Boer—were recently recognized as having the best
submission in the “Education” category for their unique computer- aided micro-machine design at the prestigious Sandia National Labo- ratories University Alliance Design Competition in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The team’s project was entitled “Pressure-Sensitive Microvalve.”
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Lizmarie Comenencia-Ortiz, a junior majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, has been selected for the NASA MUST Program (Motivating Undergrad- uates in Science and Technology). MUST recognizes outstanding
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ophomore Emerson M. Silva spent last summer working at the National Science
Foundation. Based on that experi- ence, he recently published an article in the online journal Live Science, focusing on an exciting NSF-funded research project. “Engineering a New Face After Injury” explores the use of topo- logical optimization—a mathemati- cal method that considers given loads, the applied force on an area, and boundary conditions or spatial limits—to maximize the outcomes of reconstructive facial surgery. Read Silva’s article at http://www.
livescience.com/15075-engineer- ing-face-injury.html.•
Doctoral student Jason Calaiaro was recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal in an article called “A Roboticist’s Trip From Mines to the Moon.” In the article, Calaiaro is described as the “right-hand man” to well-known Robotics Professor William “Red” Whittaker, who is leading a Carnegie Mellon team that is competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. Google will award $20 million to the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon and send data back to Earth. Whittaker and Calaiaro are designing a lunar lander that they hope will reach the moon in April 2014.•
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