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A team of researchers led by the Morphing Matter Lab is developing flat pasta that forms familiar shapes when it s cooked. Their work is the cover story in this month s issue of Science Advances.
People love pasta for its shapes from tubes of penne and rigatoni to spirals of fusilli and rotini.
But what makes farfalle different from conchiglie also makes the staple a bear to package, requiring large bags and boxes to accommodate the iconic shapes of pastas around the world.
A research team led by the Morphing Matter Lab at Carnegie Mellon University is developing flat pasta that forms into familiar shapes when cooked. The team impresses tiny grooves into flat pasta dough made of only semolina flour and water in patterns that cause it to morph into tubes, spirals, twists and waves when cooked.
Renos Zabounidis
AMHERST, Mass. – Three University of Massachusetts Amherst juniors in the Commonwealth Honors College have been awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
Nicholas Sbalbi of West Springfield, Mass.;
Meredith Stone of Wakefield, R.I.; and
Renos Zabounidis of Sharon, Mass., will receive scholarships to cover tuition, mandatory fees, books and room and board.
The three UMass students were among 1,256 students from across the nation to receive Goldwater Scholarships out of nearly 5,000 applicants. The students were assisted by Madalina Akli in the Office of National Scholarship Advisement (ONSA) with their applications. ONSA is an advising service available to all UMass Amherst undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the university’s alumni community.
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