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Public Release: 28-Feb-2007
760 students will compete this weekend for $65,000 in scholarships in Moody's Mega Math Challenge
This weekend, March 3-4, more than 170 teams comprised of 760 eleventh and twelfth graders from the New York City metropolitan area will compete in the Moody's Mega Math Challenge.
The Moody's Foundation
Contact: Michelle Montgomery
montgomery@siam.org
215-382-9800 x368
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Public Release: 21-Feb-2007
Space Technology and Applications International Forum 2007
Vivid online videos demonstrate Superbot progress
In reporting to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units that plug into each other to create robots that can stand, crawl, wiggle and even roll, Wei-Min Shen of the USC Information Sciences Institute illustrated his comments with striking video of the system in action, video now on-line.
NASA
Contact: Eric Mankin
mankin@usc.edu
310-448-9112
University of Southern California
Public Release: 10-Jan-2007
Biological Conservation
Beavers helping frogs, toads survive
Though considered a pest because of the culvert-clogging dams it builds on streams, the beaver is an ally in conserving valuable wetland habitat for declining amphibian populations, a University of Alberta study shows.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Contact: Bev Betkowski
beverly.betkowski@ualberta.ca
780-492-3808
University of Alberta
Public Release: 13-Dec-2006
Crystal Growth & Design
Yes, Virginia, some snowflakes can look the same!
Snowflakes, one of the most recognizable and endearing symbols of winter, reveal some fascinating lessons about chemistry and science in general, according to a scientist at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. In an interview with the American Chemical Society, the researcher discusses how snowflakes form, why scientists are interested in studying them, and explains why the adage that "no two snowflakes are alike" may not ring true in all cases.
Contact: Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
202-872-4400
American Chemical Society
Public Release: 4-Dec-2006
CU-Boulder space station experiments to involve K-12 students around the globe
A high-flying K-12 education effort by the University of Colorado at Boulder will feature two science investigations launching on a NASA space shuttle this week and continuing on for extended stays aboard the International Space Station.
NASA
Contact: Louis Stodieck
stodieck@colorado.edu
303-492-4010
University of Colorado at Boulder
Public Release: 10-Oct-2006
MIT student makes dough -- in the lab
Trevor Shen Kuan Ng rolls dough. He also stretches it like Silly Putty and twirls it like taffy. Ng, an MIT graduate student, is getting an education in dough. His Ph.D. thesis concerns the mechanical properties of matter -- in this case, dough -- and how it behaves when subjected to forces. The work provides valuable information for commercial bakeries that need accurate, repeatable techniques for measuring the properties of dough to ensure the tastiest product.
Kraft Foods
Contact: Elizabeth Thomson
thomson@mit.edu
617-258-5402
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Public Release: 6-Oct-2006
Nature
Robotic whiskers can sense three-dimensional environment
Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying the whisker system of rats to better understand how mechanical information from the whiskers gets transmitted to the brain. Now they have developed arrays of robotic whiskers that sense in two dimensions and that can sense information about both object shape and fluid flow. The arrays could find application on assembly lines, in pipelines or on land-based autonomous rovers or underwater vehicles.
National Science Foundation, NASA's CICT/ITSR Revolutionary Computing Algorithms project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Contact: Megan Fellman
fellman@northwestern.edu
847-491-3115
Northwestern University
Public Release: 3-Oct-2006
Operations Research
NJIT math professor uses model to predict Yanks and Twins to advance to league championship
NJIT math professor uses mathematical model to predict Yankees and Twins to advance to league championship, Dodgers and Padres to advance in National League.
Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
sheryl.m.weinstein@njit.edu
973-596-3436
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Public Release: 2-Oct-2006
American Naturalist
A plan for reintroducing megafauna to North America
Dozens of megafauna (large animals over 100 pounds) -- such as giant tortoises, horses, elephants and cheetah -- went extinct in North America 13,000 years ago during the end of the Pleistocene. As is the case today in Africa and Asia, these megafauna likely played keystone ecological roles via predation, herbivory and other processes. What are the consequences of losing such important components of America's natural heritage?
Contact: Suzanne Wu
swu@press.uchicago.edu
773-834-0386
University of Chicago Press Journals
Public Release: 29-Sep-2006
Third International Workshop on Advances in Service Robotics
Robot wheelchair may give patients more independence
Engineers at NIST are developing a robotic system that may offer wheelchair-dependent people independent, powered mobility and the ability, depending on patient status, to move to and from beds, chairs and toilets without assistance.
Contact: John Blair
john.blair@nist.gov
301-975-4261
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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