The future is robotic: A conversation with Jianguo Zhao
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Jianguo Zhao awarded third NSF grant to study robots. The latest: generating force in soft robots.
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Looking at smog from both sides now: Jathar lab receives grants to study urban air pollutants
New grants from the NSF and NOAA to CSU’s Shantanu Jathar promise to advance our understanding of how air pollution is affected by volatile chemical products.
Aditi Bhaskar and Mahdi Nikdast receive NSF CAREER awards
Aditi Bhaskar and Mahdi Nikdast were recognized with the NSF’s most prestigious early-career faculty award, for their potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in their fields.
Engineering researchers will use NSF grant to revolutionize wave farm design, lowering cost of renewable energy
Three professors from the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Systems Engineering Departments have received a $529,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to make wave farms more competitive by optimizing their performance.
Visualizing a pandemic: Researchers aim to increase public acceptance of safe behaviors
Jessica Witt and a team from University of Michigan are identifying ways to visually communicate COVID-19 risk data to the public.
Two CSU chemistry professors to help celebrate 150 years of the Periodic Table
Professors Eugene Chen and Amy Prieto will join a national panel in Washington, D.C. this week discussing chemistry breakthroughs enabled by scientific understanding of the periodic table.
Researchers working to prevent sexual harassment in scientific field settings
Their goal is to create both a policy and culture of collegiality and respect across field teams.
Stepping up PROGRESS
A CSU-led program called PROGRESS has demonstrated that mentorship is key to the retention of underrepresented groups in the geosciences.
Understanding microbial communities in fractured shales goal of NSF-sponsored project
Mike Wilkins is studying how these microbes drive larger ecosystem functions, both in the Earth's subsurface as well as other contexts.