News tagged with career award
Computer scientist drives for comprehensive traffic model
Traffic and transit information from smart phones, online maps, or radio and TV is not as timely or accurate as it could be, given all the untapped data that could provide a truly dynamic regional traffic picture.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Flow dynamics work promises fuel efficiency, less pollution
Marcus Herrmann is a kind of expert mixologist – but one who specializes in things that don’t mix well, like oil and water.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Women researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants, study shows
Women were less likely than men to receive major funding for scientific research, according to a study from the University of Michigan Health System. The study also found that only a quarter of all researchers, ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Former astronaut criticizes NASA's current course
Former NASA astronaut Story Musgrave is neither happy nor excited about the current state of the space administration or about the commercial COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) program. He’s ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 15, 2012 |
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Co-workers can be as important as supervisors for effective student internships, researcher finds
Summer internships are beginning, and career-related research from Kansas State University is helping determine what can make those internships more meaningful for students.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 08, 2012 |
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Marine food chain becomes clearer with new revelations about prey distribution
A new study has found that each step of the marine food chain is clearly controlled by the trophic level below it – and the driving factor influencing that relationship is not the abundance of prey, but ...
May 02, 2012 |
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In a small-device world, bigger may still be better
In the early days, standard computers could be as large as a single story house. Over the last several decades, many development efforts have focused on shrinking them for use in the home and eventually anywhere in the world ...
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Getting to the root of genetics
For Manolis Kellis, a deep interest in biology arose partly from an immersion in multiple languages.
Apr 17, 2012 |
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The winners: NASA's 19th annual Great Moonbuggy Race
America's space agency today crowned its vehicular engineering victors at the close of the 19th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The team from Petra Mercado ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 16, 2012 |
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Uic engineer tackles nanoscale computing challenges
Today's best computer chips boast staggering transistor arrays exceeding 2 1/2 billion, but new nanometer-level technologies hold the promise of boosting that number even more. Nanotransistors may be fabricated from materials ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Toward a modular defense against hackers
(Phys.org) -- The FBI’s top cyber security officer gave a grim assessment last week of the nation’s ability to defend itself from hackers.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Space astronomy archive, distant supernova, named in honor of U.S. Senator
(Phys.org) -- One of the world's largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information about myriad stars, planets, and galaxies, has been named in honor of the United States Senator from ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2012 |
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From spider webs to tangled proteins, researcher finds connections between mathematics, molecules and materials
If anyone were going to discover the connections between molecular structures, mathematical concepts and musical scores, it’s not surprising that Markus Buehler would be the one. He has built his career ...
Apr 03, 2012 |
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