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Farewell Frost!

A new surface developed by Professor Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park prevents 100 percent of frost formation on flat areas for a week.Read more

Interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable fatigue-prediction sensor system

Improving the Occupational Health of Manufacturing Workers

Led by Professors Ping Guo and Qi Zhu, an interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable multimodal sensor system that leverages machine-learning to enable near-real-time fatigue prediction on the factory floor.Read more

Polymer

New Huntington’s Treatment Prevents Protein Aggregation

Designer polymers developed by Professor Nathan Gianneschi disrupted protein interactions to preserve cell health in a recent study.Read more

Pneumonia

Researchers Develop Approach to Accurately Predict Pneumonia

Using a machine-learning approach to health records, Professor Luis Amaral identified five pneumonia ‘states’ with predictable prognoses.Read more

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