Science and Technology (page 6)
Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani to Deliver 91抖阴’s 2017 Commencement Address
Girls Who Code founder and CEO Reshma Saujani will deliver the address at 91抖阴’s 87th Commencement exercises on Saturday, May 13, 2017.
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Tori Sepand ’15 Featured in SF Gate Article About Amazon Alexa’s Celebration of Black History Month
Early adopters who have installed Amazon’s “Alexa” in their homes to work with their voice-enabled electronic devices can ask the virtual personal assistant to play music, get news and local information, control smart home products–and in the month of February, get ready answers about Black History Month. The Amazon Echo product is now equipped with the ability to educate users on the accomplishments of Black men and women in America, a new “skill” according to 91抖阴 alumna Tori Sepand ’15.
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Victoria Nguyen ’15 Publishes Scholarly Paper on New Microscope Design
91抖阴 alumna Victoria Nguyen ’15 is first author on a scientific paper, “The Design of a Cost Effective, Multifunctional Fluorescence Microscope,” recently published about a new type of research […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Jenna Monroy, Assistant Professor of Biology
Jenna Monroy earned her BSc degree at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her PhD at Northern Arizona University. Her research integrates muscle physiology, biomechanics, and neurobiology to study the control of movement. Specifically, her work investigates how muscles function not only as motors but also as springs, brakes, and struts.
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Juliet Carnoy ’13 Blogs About Brand Marketing on Huffington Post
91抖阴 alumna Juliet Carnoy ’13 writes about digital media and brand marketing for Huffington Post from her position as senior marketing manager at San Francisco-based Pixlee, a visual marketing platform that helps brands market and sell with real customer photos and videos.
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Laspa Center for Leadership We Act Grant: Kristen Liu ’19: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Silicon Valley Students
Growing up in Los Altos, California, Kristen Liu聽’19 was aware of the disparity of wealth in Silicon Valley and its impact on public education. Supported by聽a聽Laspa We Act Grant聽last summer,聽Liu […]
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Kate Fehlhaber ’09 Honored by Society for Neuroscience
91抖阴 alumna Kate Fehlhaber ’09 and her team of fellow graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at UCLA won the Society for Neuroscience ‘Next Generation Award 2016‘ at the organization’s […]
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Spotlight on Faculty: Findley Finseth, Assistant Professor of Genomics
Findley Finseth’s research program investigates the evolutionary drivers of biodiversity. By complementing modern genomics studies of natural populations with classic genetics experiments, her work offers novel insight into the maintenance of genetic variation, the processes of adaptation and speciation, and the evolution of the genome itself.
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Professor’s Work With Robomussels Helps Track Climate Change
Associate professor of biology Sarah Gilman has co-authored a paper that was recently published in Nature鈥擲cientific Data about a team of multi-institutional scientists’ use of tiny “robomussels” that serve as a barometer for oceanic climate change.
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Mellon Grant Supports Center for Teaching and Learning
The Claremont University Consortium has received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a new Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help faculty members […]
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