October 16, 2014
…Matt Grob, Executive Vice President, Qualcomm Technologies and CTO, kicked off Friday’s series of keynotes by flying a mini quadcopter over the audience. One big challenge facing the robotics community is battery technology, which, he noted, has only improved by 6 to 7 percent a year, on average. “I like…
October 4, 2018
…Emeritus. He is currently president of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. Viterbi earned a doctorate from the University of Southern California, and S.M. and S.B. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology—the research and academic program of the UC San…
October 18, 2018
…gun deaths in the U.S. as motivation: Every day, 47 children and teens are shot. Every day, 342 people in America are shot. In one year on average, 17,207 American children are shot. The numbers become overwhelming. Susan Narucki commissioned and produced the chamber opera. “Just during the course of…
January 17, 2019
…culture of African-Americans and U.S. workers. It flourished during her days earning a doctorate at Yale, as an endowed professor at the College of William and Mary and founding dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College-CUNY. Related Story Widening the Pathway to a STEM Career…
October 12, 2017
…from Judith Rodin, former president of both The Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania, who has spent her career examining how universities can be the key drivers in developing cities that foster both equity and excellence. “In today’s dizzyingly complex world, universities isolate themselves in an ivory tower at…
November 3, 2016
…lead editor of the U.S. Robotics Roadmap. Christensen is the lead editor of the 2016 U.S. Robotics Roadmap, which aims to determine how researchers can make a difference and solve societal problems in the United States. He gave a preview of the roadmap—which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation,…
May 27, 2021
…be a resident or U.S. citizen to attend a university in California,” said Daniel Alfaro, program manager for UC San Diego’s Undocumented Student Services Center. Serving California’s fastest growing population Over 50% of California high school graduates identify as Latinx, and 45% meet the requirements to attend the University of…
January 21, 2016
…astronomy and physics at U.S. universities and colleges. Among the remaining two-thirds of institutions that were successful in adding a female physics or astronomy faculty member, “the vast majority hired one woman, while about 10 percent hired two,” she said. Karin Sandstrom “I would say it’s very exceptional,” added White…
April 14, 2016
…the Robert F. Kennedy presidential campaign when the senator was assassinated, an event that caused Moore to abandon what seemed a promising future to live a life on the road in pursuit of rocking climbing. As the daughter of a climbing pioneer, Anderson-Moore grew up rock climbing. She took on…
January 25, 2018
…Richard Nixon was elected president. The Beatles released the White Album. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Upon hearing the news a few hours later, just as he was about to give a scheduled speech, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerful extemporaneous eulogy in which he called upon…
