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RoboCup is the Olympics of college-level robotics and artificial intelligence contests. As teams gear up for the next round of competition, the “SpelBots” have positioned themselves as the team to beat. That’s the team from Spelman College, a historically black liberal arts college for women in Atlanta. They tied for first place globally in the humanoid soccer championship in Osaka, Japan in 2009, just four year after becoming the first all-women, African American team to enter the competition.
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Learn how a civil engineer’s farm life and summer construction jobs led him to his college major. Hear how college, internships, and a desire to work outdoors molded his specialized career path in hydrology and hydraulics project management. Part of the "Career Connections" series.
Showcases innovative teaching techniques in higher education as performed by science and math professors at Hampshire College, the University of Massachusetts, and Springfield Technical Community College. Techniques include interactive learning, giving pyramid exams (a two-step exam that turns a test into an interactive learning experience), problem-based cooperative group work, using technology (as opposed to lecture), and more collaboration between colleagues.
In this episode, Rob Franek from The Princeton Review discusses the new changes made to the SAT. Scott also reports on the new transformations at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. All of the animals were removed, and a new coral reef was constructed. Christin explains the need for proper lighting when studying. Other segments include the history of Maine's flag, dental tips, weird and wacky movie laws, and a recipe for an apple tart. Part of the "Teen Kids News" series.
In this episode, host Dianna Cowern provides exam tips and tricks. She discusses the hardest exam she took in college and explains how to answer questions from an exam on classic mechanics. Part of the "Physics Girl" series.
What does the dream science internship look like? How about a month of field work in the rugged mountains of Tasmania and New Zealand? This dream came true for three bright students from Salish Kootenai Tribal College in NW Montana. Part of WIldFIRE PIRE series.
Going green is worthwhile and good for the bottom line. Explore the profitable side of going green, and learn how to distinguish between what's hype and what's hip. Meet two college graduates who learned how to make a profit from the coffee grounds up.
Tarrie Hood has faced several stumbling blocks while trying to reach her career goals at NASA. She became a participant in the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Cooperative Education Program and graduated from community college. These steps helped launch her career at NASA. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
Robin Henderson’s life changed forever and for the better when, in her first year of college, she was offered a co-op opportunity at NASA. Within a year, she had changed her major to engineering, and after graduating, she was hired by NASA as a technical analyst for the Hubble Space Telescope Program. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
Wyoming has long been known as an energy exporter, from oil to natural gas to coal. The state is now booming with two other resources: wind energy and qualified technicians trained to build, install, and service the growth in wind turbine technology. With National Science Foundation funding, Laramie County Community College in Wyoming is becoming a national leader in training.
In response to one of the worst wildfires in Colorado history, scientists from Warner College at Colorado State University are leading a large-scale wildfire impact study. The study will provide critical data to communities still grappling with the destruction caused by wildfires. Some issues they will study include water quality, erosion, and ecosystem restoration.
Many viewers enjoy three-dimensional technology, but a few feel the need to look away. A number of neurological and visual conditions can cause someone to experience nausea. It's a type of motion sickness without the motion. Fred Bonato of St. Peter's College in Jersey City has spent years steadily tracking what he calls "cyber sickness.”
Imagine a virtual computer simulation that reflects the world in real-time. The current virtual reality technology center has been creating and implementing this technology at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. It is called Geo-Immersion. Center director Cyrus Shahabi envisions the technology being used at other college campuses and institutions for applications ranging from social networking to enhancing security.
Mai Lee Chang did not envision becoming a NASA engineer. At the age of six, her family settled in the U.S. as refugees of the Vietnam War. During her senior year in high school, her physics teacher suggested that she look into engineering as a potential college major. Mai Lee is an engineer at the Johnson Space Center within the Human Systems Engineering and Development Division. She started her career at NASA as a co-op student. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
With support from the National Science Foundation, Center Director Doug Keszler and his team in the College of Science at Oregon State University are developing the next generation of electronic circuits, starting with the basic computer chip. In the manufacturing process, they want to replace bulky carbon compounds with metal oxides, in order to put more transistors onto a chip. The new process would be cleaner, faster and cheaper. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
Tony Ro, a neuroscientist at The City College of New York, is artificially recreating a condition called blindsight in his lab. Blindsight is a condition that some patients experience after having damage to the primary visual cortex in the back of their brains. What happens in these patients is they go cortically blind, yet they can still discriminate visual information. With support from the National Science Foundation, Ro is developing a clearer picture of how other parts of the brain, besides the visual cortex, respond to visual stimuli. He says understanding and mapping those alternative pathways might be the key to new rehabilitative therapies.
Mobile computing is accelerating beyond the smartphone era. Today, people wear smart glasses, smart watches, and fitness devices, and they carry smartphones, tablets, and laptops. In a decade, the very same people are likely to wear or carry tens of wireless devices and interact with the Internet and computing infrastructure in markedly different ways. Computer scientist Xia Zhou is working to make sure there are no traffic jams with the increased demand. With support from the National Science Foundation, Zhou and her team at Dartmouth College are developing ways to encode and transmit all that data faster and more securely. Part of the "Science Nation" series.
There’s been a lot of research on what happens to a river when dams are built, but what happens when a dam is torn down? With support from the National Science Foundation, Dartmouth College geographer Frank Magilligan is researching the impact of dam removal. His lab has been at the relatively small Homestead Dam, built more than 200 years ago along the Ashuelot River in New Hampshire. He and his team have collected data on the ecology and geology of the Ashuelot River both before and after the Dam removal. Now, they’ll be documenting the processes of ecological restoration and how the path of the river is changing.
We often hear about insects and other animals passing on diseases to humans, so-called zoonotic diseases, such as rabies, cholera, and West Nile virus. Now, for the first time, researchers are examining a disease that humans are spreading to an animal, specifically Elkhorn coral off the Florida Keys. With support from the National Science Foundation, Rollins College biologist Kathryn Sutherland is tracing this emerging infectious disease phenomenon, known as “reverse zoonosis.” Elkhorn coral was once the most common coral in the Caribbean, but it's now a threatened species due to population losses from White pox disease. Sutherland believes undertreated sewage, possibly from leaking septic tanks or illegal cruise ship discharge, could be the source of this disease.
These city kids from Boston may not look like conventional farmers, but they’re spending part of their summer getting their hands dirty. They’re learning how to build solar-powered hydroponic systems that grow organic vegetables without soil. With support from the National Science Foundation, Boston College educator Mike Barnett and his team developed the Urban Hydrofarmers Project to engage students in math and science through hydroponic farming and green energy technology. And, because the teens sell what they grow at farmers’ markets, the students get to experience green entrepreneurship. Barnett and his team have also partnered with the STEM Garden Institute to bring hydroponic farming into classrooms throughout the U.S. Part of the National Science Foundation Series “Science Nation.”
