Chronic pain often leads practitioners to prescribe opioids, though prescribed opioids have created a nationwide crisis that reportedly killed more than 107,000 Americans from December 2020 through December 2021. Therefore, an urgent need exists to develop novel non-opioid and non-addicting therapies for managing chronic pain. To help develop these therapies, the National Institutes of Health recently awarded a five-year grant to Mahmoud Salama Ahmed, Ph.D., from the TTUHSC Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy. 

With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign set out to learn how well the free version of ChatGPT would compare with human students in a semester-long undergraduate control systems course.

UVA Engineering mechanical and aerospace students plan to hitch a ride on a NASA rocket this August. They want to see if they can be the first researchers to use low-cost, miniature spacecraft technology to acquire reentry data that could improve future full-scale hypersonic aircraft designs.