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Aerial robotic wings — a patent
“Associate professor Alireza Ramezani received a patent for ‘Armwing Structures for Aerial Robots.'”
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Cassella and students win IEEE Outstanding Paper Award
“Assistant professor Cristian Cassella and his electrical engineering students, Onurcan Kaya, PhD’25, and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’24, had their paper ‘Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterial Filters’ selected for the 2024 UFFC Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.”
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‘Thresholds for ‘Byzantinism’ in Architecture Newman University Church, Dublin, and Early English Architectural Histories’
“John Henry Newman was installed as rector of the first Catholic university in the British Isles in 1854. The university church that he built in Dublin (1855–6) physically embodied the concept behind the unprecedented university – the provision of an learned Catholic alternative to post-Enlightenment secularism and Protestant hegemony – through a style-based analogy to the Early Church. … I argue here for the importance of features such as the convex leaf-cut capital, the stilted arch, polychrome stone cladding and ‘mosaic’ in our understanding of nineteenth-century Byzantine revival architecture.
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Improving communications with A
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia and electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for ‘System for Frequency Sharing in Open Radio Access Networks Using Artificial Intelligence.'”
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Ultra-efficient AI for wearables and IoT
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for ‘Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.'”
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‘Answering Three Talent Questions: A Strategic Playbook For Winning Through People’
“In today’s fast-moving business world, companies feel pressure to stay ahead, innovate and achieve results through people. As CEOs see talent as vital, HR questions become more focused and strategic. Still, many HR leaders struggle to give clear, business-oriented answers. The disconnect isn’t due to talent not being a priority, but because HR efforts seem fragmented. Initiatives are launched quickly, each valuable alone, but together they overwhelm leaders and misalign with business goals. This causes frustration, diluted impact and loss of trust in HR. To bridge this gap, HR must answer Marc Effron’s ‘The CEO’s Three Questions About Talent.'”
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‘Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity’
“This paper aims to design meta-lamina for desired properties including overall auxeticity via tuning local anisotropy of each discretized meta-patch. As an example, material system, meta-lamina with square patches is explored. By tuning the local anisotropy in each patch, desired overall elastic material constants, including the effective stiffnesses and effective Poisson’s ratios can be achieved. Interestingly, a large design pool for negative in-plane Poisson’s ratio are discovered and identified via systematic Finite Element (FE) simulations.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Materials and Design.
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‘On-Demand Delivery of Fibulin-1 Protects the Basement Membrane During Cyclic Stretching in C. elegans’
“Basement membrane (BM) extracellular matrices enwrap and structurally support tissues. Whether BMs are uniquely constructed for tissues to undergo repetitive stretching and recoil events is unknown. During C. elegans ovulation, the spermathecal BM stretches ∼1.7-fold and then recoils to its original shape every 20 min to passage hundreds of oocytes. … Together, our study identifies an on-demand FBL-1 delivery system that protects the BM network when it is stretched, thereby allowing repeated rounds of tissue expansion and recovery.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Developmental Cell.
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“In this paper, we demonstrate that wormholes must be entangled regardless of asymptotic boundary conditions. By assuming black hole complementarity, we argue that traversable wormholes instantiate entanglement-assisted quantum channels and that this entanglement must be present between the stretched horizons as an initial condition prior to traversability. This result demonstrates the forward direction of the ER/EPR conjectures.” Find the paper and full list of authors in the International Journal of Modern Physics D.
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‘Why ‘Soft Skills’ Will Be The Most Valuable Investment Your Company Can Make’
“As industries automate more routine tasks, the demand for distinctly human skills is rising. Here’s how to equip your team to rise to the challenge.”
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Prometheus initiative aims for cleaner combustion technology
“Chemical engineering professor Richard West, in collaboration with Kyle Niemeyer from Oregon State University, was awarded a $599,925 NSF grant for ‘Disciplinary Improvements: The Prometheus Initiative: FAIR Model and Data Cyberinfrastructure for Predictive Combustion Science.’ By helping to transition the combustion research community from its traditionally closed nature to an Open Science and collaborative paradigm, this grant aims to demonstrate that the open, distributed and zero-barrier model of data sharing can serve as a model for other fields.”
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‘How Emerging Market Multinationals Reshape Global Value Chains’
“Most studies on global value chains focus on advanced economy multinationals that develop products in-house and retain high-value added activities, while outsourcing low-value tasks, like component manufacturing and assembly, to emerging market suppliers. However, this dynamic is shifting as increasing numbers of emerging market suppliers are becoming multinationals and exerting control over more value chain activities. Initially positioned as suppliers for western brands, these companies have leveraged their roles in global value chains to learn, acquire advanced capabilities, and strategically expand through acquisitions.”
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‘Toward an Updated Corporate Governance Framework: Fundamentals, Disruptions and Future Research’
“This essay explores the evolving landscape of corporate governance amid global disruptions and changing stakeholder demands. We argue that traditional governance models are unable to effectively address contemporary challenges such as technological advancements, sustainability pressures, and geopolitical conflicts. While corporate governance has traditionally prioritized financial metrics and majority shareholders, there is a growing shift toward incorporating broader societal and environmental considerations. As a result, we highlight the need for a new corporate governance framework that supports the evolving nature of organizations and their corporate governance practices.”
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‘Accurate Density Determination of Various Natural Stones Employing Archimedes’ Principle and a New Non-Destructive Liquid Pycnometer for Solids’
“In this study we examine the accuracy of the level method, the overflow method and the mass-based suspension method in determining the density of natural stones. We find that the density of polycrystalline materials, which is challenging to be determined by conventional crystallographic techniques (X-Ray diffraction, neutron diffraction), … can instead be assessed accurately using a mass-based method and inexpensive instruments. In addition, the methods we explore are non-destructive which preserve the natural stones. The density is determined with a mass rather than a volume determination method.” Find the paper and full list of authors at PrePrints.org.
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‘What Business Owners Can Learn From World War II Strategic Bombing’
“What can small business owners, family firms, and startups possibly learn from strategic bombing campaigns during World War II? More than you might expect. Under the pressure of high stakes, constrained resources, and uncertain outcomes, wartime leaders faced challenges strikingly similar to those confronting today’s business leaders. The lessons they learned—about focus, adaptability, logistics, morale, and ethical leadership—are as relevant in today’s marketplace as they were in wartime Europe and the Pacific. This article distills those insights into six powerful takeaways for entrepreneurs navigating complexity and growth.”
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‘The Impact of Ownership on Global Strategy:Owner Diversity and Non-Financial Objectives’
“In this special issue introduc-tion, we analyze how a firm’s international ownershipaffects its global strategy. We reinterpret the literatureby grouping dominant owners into four categories:(1) individuals (entrepreneurs and families), (2) labor(managers and employees), (3) state (national and sub-national governments), and (4) institutions (pensionfunds, mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity, ven-ture capital, and impact investors). We argue thatalthough all seek financial returns from their invest-ments, they differ markedly in their non-financialobjectives, resulting in differences in strategies forexpanding abroad.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Global Strategy Journal.
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‘Dynamics of Disordered Intermediates During the Two-Electron Alkaline MnO2 Conversion Reaction for Grid-Scale Batteries’
“Widespread energy storage for the grid will require batteries with low cost and high safety. Intercalation cathodes are typically limited to the transfer of only one electron per transition metal atom or less, negatively impacting cost and energy density. In this work, we report on the rechargeable alkaline MnO2 cathode, which cycles reversibly from the Mn(IV) to Mn(II) state, providing two electrons of capacity per Mn atom.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Joule.
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Heat-resistant ceramic patent for wireless devices
“Electrical and computer engineering University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith professor Vincent Harris was awarded a patent for developing a ‘Ceramic Frequency Selective Surface.'”
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NSF grant awarded for adaptive clothing
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/mechanical and industrial engineering assistant professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for ‘Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.'”
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Restuccia and Jornet receive NSF grant for AI-incorporated hardware
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia and electrical and computer engineering professor and associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, in collaboration with Princeton University, Florida International University, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, were awarded a $200,000 NSF grant for ‘DHARMA.AI Digital Hardware + Analog-RF for Multifunctional Apertures with AI.'”
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Patent for automated of drone swarm networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Software Defined Drone Network Control System.'”
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AI-powered drone networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software-Defined Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Network Control.'”
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‘Lysine vitcylation is a vitamin C-derived protein modification that enhances STAT1-mediated immune response’
“Vitamin C (vitC) is essential for health and shows promise in treating diseases like cancer, yet its mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we report that vitC directly modifies lysine residues to form “vitcyl-lysine”-a process termed vitcylation. Vitcylation occurs in a dose-, pH-, and sequence-dependent manner in both cell-free systems and living cells. … The discovery of vitcylation as a distinctive post-translational modification provides significant insights into vitC’s cellular function and therapeutic potential, opening avenues for understanding its biological effects and applications in disease treatment.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Cell.
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‘Tunable Superconductivity Coexisting With the Anomalous Hall Effect in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide’
“Antibiotic resistance poses a significant threat to human health, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are important reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Here, we analyze the antibiotic resistomes of 226 activated sludge samples from 142 WWTPs across six continents, using a consistent pipeline for sample collection, DNA sequencing and analysis. We find that ARGs are diverse and similarly abundant, with a core set of 20 ARGs present in all WWTPs.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Nature Communications.
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‘Passive Acoustic Dynamic Differentiation and Mapping (PADAM): A Time-Domain Passive Cavitation Localization and Classification Approach’
“Passive cavitation imaging has explored various beamforming algorithms to optimize spatial resolution, suppress imaging artifacts, and maintain computational efficiency. … Precise cavitation localization and dose control are required to minimize off-target effects. Commonly used methods such as Delay-Sum-Integrate (DSI) and Robust Capon Beamforming (RCB) have shown utility, but are limited by either significant artifacts or the need for a nonphysical input parameter. To address these challenges, we aimed to develop a method that enhances resolution and introduces a physically grounded parameter for signal characterization, without compromising computational speed and robustness.” Find the paper and authors list in IEEE Transactions on…
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Patent for magnetic microwires in medicine
“Distinguished University and Cabot professor Laura Lewis, chemical engineering/mechanical and industrial engineering, and chemical engineering associate professor Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for ‘Magnetic Microwires for Energy-Transporting Biomedical Applications.'”