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Two researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering â Asst. Profs. Yan Gu and Marianna Maiaru â were recognized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Air Force, respectively, with faculty early career development grants totaling $1,015,000. The funding will help advance research on robot walking and the process modeling of composite materials.
Gu received a five-year NSF CAREER grant, worth nearly $565,000, for research that would develop new methods in modeling, analyzing and controlling the movement of legged robots to keep them stable and upright while walking on nonstationary surfaces.
The CAREER grant is the NSFâs most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who demonstrate strong potential to lead research breakthroughs in their organizations.
Michael ‘Fuzzy’ deLisle is an unsung hero of the fertile 1970s Champaign-Urbana scene
He’s released just one single in his long career, but he’s played a staggering amount of great country rock and folk.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
Historians, archaeologists, and treasure hunters tend to be obsessive people, but they don t expend all those hours of sweat and energy for just anything like anybody else, they ve got their specific interests, and you ve gotta dangle the right carrot to get them going. And the artist known formerly as Fuzzy checks at least three boxes on my list of requirements for a Secret History subject.
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IMAGE: The U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is a founding partner of Duality, the first startup accelerator program in the nation that is dedicated to startup companies focused. view more
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The U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is a founding partner of Duality, the first program in the nation that is dedicated to accelerating startup companies focused on quantum science and technology a rapidly emerging area that is poised to drive transformative advances across multiple industries. Duality will provide inventors and entrepreneurs from across the U.S. the powerful facilities, tools and talent that are needed to move transformative discoveries into applications. Paul Kearns, Argonne Laboratory director
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IMAGE: Archaeologists at Washington University in St. Louis found scant evidence that wood overuse at Cahokia caused local flooding and subsequent collapse. view more
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Whatever ultimately caused inhabitants to abandon Cahokia, it was not because they cut down too many trees, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Archaeologists from Arts & Sciences excavated around earthen mounds and analyzed sediment cores to test a persistent theory about the collapse of Cahokia, the pre-Columbian Native American city in southwestern Illinois that was once home to more than 15,000 people.
No one knows for sure why people left Cahokia, though many environmental and social explanations have been proposed. One oft-repeated theory is tied to resource exploitation: specifically, that Native Americans from densely populated Cahokia deforested the area, an environmental misstep that could have resulted in ero