UT Grads Grab Attention from NASA, Animators and Engineers
When Gina Pantano graduates on Saturday, her work won’t be done. UT’s first physics and mathematics double major, Pantano will begin a 10-week paid, remote internship with the NASA Goddard Flight Center starting in June.
Gina Pantano graduates on Saturday and heads to an internship with the NASA Goddard Flight Center starting in June.
Pantano, of Pittsburgh, is one of 1,781 degree-seeking candidates participating in UT’s 152nd commencement, which will be a virtual experience on May 8.
Pantano, who will pursue a doctorate in applied physics at the University of South Florida this fall, co-founded the UT chapter of the Society of Physics Students (SPS) during her first year on campus. She said SPS has increased her networking opportunities, strengthened her ability to connect with professional organizations and introduced her to the NASA internship, which is organized through the American Institute of Physics.
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April 29, 2021
Michael E. Mann, renowned climate scientist and author of “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back our Planet” will join a live, online discussion Tuesday, May 4 at 5 p.m.
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann, renowned climate scientist and author of “The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back our Planet” will join a live, online discussion Tuesday, May 4 at 5 p.m., Eastern time, presented by the Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books.
In his new book, Mann illustrates how fossil fuel companies waged a 30-year campaign to deflect blame for climate change and placed responsibility for fixing the crisis squarely on the shoulders of individuals. He describes how companies blocked efforts to regulate carbon emissions, designed PR campaigns to discredit viable alternatives, and abdicated their responsibility in fixing the problem they ve created. Yet all is not lost - Mann presents a battle plan for forcing governments and corporations to wake
April 30, 2021
Today the National Science Board (NSB) announced that William S. Hammack is a recipient of its 2021 Public Service Award. Hammack is an engineer and author from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
NSB grants its Public Service Award to individuals and groups that have contributed substantially to increasing public understanding of science and engineering. NSB is recognizing Hammack for his outstanding skills as communicator. He has authored numerous books and produced hundreds of hours of radio and video segments that explain engineering in plain language to a wide variety of audiences worldwide. His YouTube channel has over a million subscribers and the videos that he has produced there have been viewed nearly seventy million times.
For a long time, in many places, there was no TV channel 37. If you were flicking through the channels in the US, Canada, Mexico, or several parts of Europ