Student Spotlight: With the greatest of ease, Gracie White flies through the air
Yale junior Gracie White starts to feel a little bit ungrounded when she’s not spent much time up in the air. (more…)
Category Archives: Education
Mechatronik: „Es geht um die Zukunft“
2009 fiel der Startschuss für das gemeinsam von Universität Innsbruck und UMIT konzipierte Mechatronik-Studium. Heute, fünf Jahre später, erhalten die ersten fünf Absolventen ihre Diplome. LH Günther Platter, Rektor Tilmann Märk und UMIT-Rektorin Sabine Schindler zogen gestern eine erste Bilanz. Der Landeshauptmann benannte die Bedeutung: „Es geht um die Zukunft!“
Im Rahmen eines Pressegespräches zogen gestern Tirols Landeshauptmann Günther Platter und die Rektoren der Universität Innsbruck und der UMIT – Private Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Medizinische Informatik und Technik, Tilmann Märk und Sabine Schindler, Bilanz. Im Jahr 2009 fiel der Startschuss für das Studium, das gemeinsam von Universität Innsbruck und UMIT konzipiert wurde. Jetzt, fünf Jahre später, erhalten die ersten fünf Absolventen ihre Abschlussurkunden als Diplom-Ingenieure, die mit den Siegeln beider Universitäten versehen sind. (more…)
Student Spotlight: Yale entrepreneur hopes to instill confidence in young scientists
It’s the first day of school in a brand new city for Ava Margaret Avignoli, and something strange is going on.
The third-grader notices muddy footprints that lead to a secret door in the back of Corridor C. Ava decides to figure out what’s going on, and her pursuit involves asking some pointed questions, conducting science experiments, and putting together a bunch of clues. She does so wearing colorful rhinestone-studded lab goggles and a multi-colored, patterned lab coat. (more…)
A composer, a president, and a dean share in conversation about creativity and expression
While working on a new piece, composer John Adams sometimes has to experience a deep sense of failure before his ideas really start to flow.
“You can win every prize in the book … but when you are alone with yourself in that room and what you are doing is not even worthy of a five-year-old — you can’t imagine how humiliating that is,” he told an audience in Sprague Memorial Hall on Oct. 16. “You have to get to that level of abject humility to finally get to point of being receptive, then ideas come. Usually when they come they’re dressed in extremely shabby clothes. You just have to go with it.” (more…)
Creative Classroom: The ticks ‘come marching in’ in singing professor’s microbiology class
At the end of a recent “Medical Microbiology” class taught by Dr. Sheldon Campbell, students clapped, cheered heartily, and stomped their feet on the floor. A couple of them even shouted “Encore!”
It’s not quite the reaction one would expect from medical students who just spent 45 minutes learning about the symptoms and treatments for various vector-borne diseases, but in their case, something unexpected happened. (more…)
Metal particles in solids aren’t as fixed as they seem, new memristor study shows
ANN ARBOR — In work that unmasks some of the magic behind memristors and “resistive random access memory,” or RRAM—cutting-edge computer components that combine logic and memory functions—researchers have shown that the metal particles in memristors don’t stay put as previously thought.
The findings have broad implications for the semiconductor industry and beyond. They show, for the first time, exactly how some memristors remember. (more…)
Stem pipeline problems to aid STEM diversity
Educators and policymakers have spent decades trying to recruit and retain more underrepresented minority students into the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline. A new analysis of disappointing results in the pipeline’s output leads two Brown University biologists to suggest measures to help the flow overcome an apparent gravity.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Decades of effort to increase the number of minority students entering the metaphorical science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline, haven’t changed this fact: Traditionally underrepresented groups remain underrepresented. In a new paper in the journal BioScience, two Brown University biologists analyze the pipeline’s flawed flow and propose four research-based ideas to ensure that more students emerge from the far end with Ph.D.s and STEM careers. (more…)
Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria
Baban Mohamed received his Master’s degree in English and American Studies (General/Applied Linguistics) from the University of Salzburg in Austria. He has B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Sulaimania (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Since 2005 Baban is living and studying in the beautiful Mozart’s City of Music, Salzburg. His research interests cover the areas of bilingual/ bicultural acquisition, child code-switching and sociolinguistics. (more…)