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A rift along the Larsen C ice shelf from the vantage point of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft. Image acquired by NASA on November 10, 2016. Photo credit: John Sonntag / NASA

Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Department of Geology at 麻豆视频, recently authored a 鈥淣ews and Views鈥 article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that reassessed the melt history and timing of the collapse of the Eurasian Ice Sheet Complex during the Last Deglaciation.

10 Questions about Contact Tracing App With Gokarna Sharma

Apple and Google partnered in early April to create a new smartphone app that uses Bluetooth to track coronavirus cases. Using a technology called contact tracing, the app alerts a user when they come in contact with someone who has been positively diagnosed with COVID-19. Gokarna Sharma, assistant professor in Computer Science, recently answered 10 questions about the new app based on his professional opinion. Sharma is experienced in algorithms, blockchain and smart technologies such as this.

A rift along the Larsen C ice shelf from the vantage point of NASA's DC-8 research aircraft. Image acquired by NASA on November 10, 2016. Photo credit: John Sonntag / NASA

Joseph D. Ortiz, Ph.D., professor and assistant chair in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Department of Geology at 麻豆视频, recently authored a 鈥淣ews and Views鈥 article in Nature Geoscience that discusses research carried out by another research team that reassessed the melt history and timing of the collapse of the Eurasian Ice Sheet Complex during the Last Deglaciation.

Autism Research is represented by an image of the brain

April鈥檚 observance as Autism Awareness Month is coming to a close, but research into the whys and hows of autism is always ongoing at 麻豆视频.

Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., director of the Brain Health Research Institute at 麻豆视频, said the university supports autism research that focuses on basic discoveries within the brain, as well as applied human research of students with autism, which makes 麻豆视频鈥檚 body of research unique and diverse.

Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science
Torsten Hegmann, director of 麻豆视频's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.

麻豆视频鈥檚 Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.

Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science
Torsten Hegmann, director of 麻豆视频's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.

麻豆视频鈥檚 Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.

Inner vertex components of the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (righthand view) allow scientists to trace tracks from triplets of decay particles picked up in the detector's outer regions (left) to their origin

Nuclear physics researchers at 麻豆视频 and all over the world have been searching for violations of the fundamental symmetries in the universe for decades. Much like the 鈥淏ig Bang鈥 (approximately 13.8 billion years ago), but on a tiny scale, they briefly recreate the particle interactions that likely existed microseconds into the formation of our universe which also likely now exist in the cores of neutron stars.

A microscope for scientific research

Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D., was named the inaugural director of 麻豆视频鈥檚 Brain Health Research Institute in January 2019. We asked him to share his thoughts after a year on campus and much activity within the institute.

 

BioBlack Team Poses with their bacteria-dyed tote bad and dress dyed with bacterium

The words 鈥渂iology鈥 and 鈥渄esign鈥 might not typically intertwine; however, 麻豆视频鈥檚 Biodesign Challenge course was created to challenge the idea that the two separate disciplines could not collaborate.

Virus and medical worker stock image

Tara C. Smith, Ph.D., epidemiology professor in the College of Public Health, shares her perspective on the current coronavirus pandemic: "It seems like years have passed since the world first heard of an 'atypical pneumonia' circulating in the Hubei province of China in December 2019. When we鈥檝e seen similar reports in the past, the illnesses have had a variety of causes, but all were eventually containable..."