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RIT hosts computer science workshop for high school teachers

Rochester Institute of Technology is hosting a workshop to help area high school teachers looking for ways to keep up-to-date about trends in computer science or provide guidance to computer-savvy high school students. Kluever, a software engineer at Google, is the keynote speaker. He will talk about the life of a software engineer and the variety of computing-science applications used at... More

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City Springs Elementry School takes a field trip to JHU

Two faculty members from JHU have visited City Springs Elementary School in East Baltimore on a monthly basis, leading science sessions in which they explain basic science principles, such as water tension and electricity, through simple and lively experiments and demonstrations. The fifth-grade students visited JHU campus labs as part of the ongoing effort to generate interest in the... More

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Swartz partners with high school students to create “fluorescent proteins”

Sequoia High School students are the first to reproduce a technique for creating glowing jellyfish proteins outside of a living organism, with the help of Stanford Professor Jim Swartz and Cem Albayrak, a Stanford graduate student in Swartz’s lab. The professor and his graduate student went to the four biotechnology classes at Sequoia High School to teach the experiment with the... More

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MIT designs eco-friendly airplanes

An MIT-led team has designed an environmentally friendly airplane that is estimated to use 70 percent less fuel than current planes, while also reducing noise and release of nitrogen oxides. Led by AeroAstro faculty Ed Greitzer and AeroAstro students, their objective was to develop concepts for, and evaluate the potential of, quieter commercial planes that would burn 70 percent less fuel and... More

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Meet the LittleDog Robot

LittleDog , a project developed by multiple campuses, is putting robotics to the test. LittleDog came from the project BigDog , and researchers are looking into developing efficient and effective robotic legs and applying theories and advanced robotics to LittleDog. LittleDog is a robot designed for research on learning “locomotion”. Scientists at leading institutions use... More