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Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College
PEAQS student pathways
Sarah Schreiner, CU Boulder
"I never realized how much this experience would make me a perfect fit for this career."
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College
An Optical/Electrical System for Micro Droplet Screening
Yiyan Li, Fort Lewis College
The undergraduate researchers at Fort Lewis College developed an optical system to quantify single bacterium
from environmental water samples. To improve signal detection in their system, they developed a neural network, a method in artificial intelligence.
Highlight · Nov 20, 2024
Fort Lewis College
PEAQS students in the community
Sarah Schreiner, CU Boulder
PEAQS undergraduates have been busy getting out into their local communities to get K12 students interested in STEM.
Highlight · Nov 19, 2024
Texas State University
Image Guided Surgery for Tumor Resection
A simulation of how surgeons find cancerous tissue during an operation. One glass bead is marked with a transparent fluorescent pen, mixed in with others, and picked out under a black lamp in a dark room. It introduces fluorescence and how it is used to label cells and image tumors.
Highlight · Nov 19, 2024
Texas State University
Dye Encapsulation within Alginate Beads
An introduction to hydrogels and drug delivery. Drops of alginate solution with food coloring in it form beads in a calcium chloride solution. Moving the beads to clean water shows the color coming out slowly, standing in for the controlled release of a medicine. The ingredients are food grade.
Highlight · Nov 19, 2024
Texas State University
Dry Ice Fog, Bubbles and Balloons
Three demonstrations of sublimation, the change from a solid straight to a gas. Dry ice goes into plain water to make fog, into soapy water to make carbon dioxide bubbles, and into a balloon, which inflates. Includes safety guidance, because dry ice is -78.5 C and has to be handled with gloves or tongs.
Highlight · Nov 19, 2024
Texas State University
Lego Zipline Engineering
Teams build a Lego carrier that runs down a zip line, then compare designs to see what matters most: the size of the carrier, its weight, or the shape of the part that touches the line. It needs only Lego pieces and cord.
News · Aug 22, 2024
UPR-UW PREM Center for Advancing Research and Training for STEM Success
PREM Leader Recognized as STEM Luminary
PREM Web Team
Claribel Acevedo-Velez, director of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez/University of Wisconsin-Madison Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) has been named one of this year’s STEM Luminaries in recognition of her scientific contributions by Great Minds in STEM, an organization that supports broad participation in STEM.
News · May 24, 2024
Navajo Technical University
Navajo Technical University partners with NSF center, creating new opportunities in materials research and education
By Wafa Hozien
A partnership that began in 2017 between Navajo Technical University (NTU) and the U.S. National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University is providing Navajo students with new opportunities to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering while helping to address critical issues facing the Navajo Nation.
News · Oct 5, 2023
NSF Appoints New DMR Division Director
Divya Abhat
In early 2023, the National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed Germano Iannacchione as the new Division Director for its Division of Materials Research (DMR)—a division with a critical objective to invest in the discovery, development, and design of new materials.
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