Meetings

A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing technology that would allow virtual reality users to see the facial expressions of the person they are interacting with online.

Grassland soil today experiences increased nutrient inputs, which have dramatic impacts on biodiversity. To help understand this issue, researchers at the University of Oklahoma are leading the American contribution to a global study that aims to measure the impact of increased nutrients on soil microbial biodiversity and the ecosystem-level functions for grasslands around the world.

A leap into the future: the goal of the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition is to develop robotic systems that can transmit a human's senses, actions and presence to a remote location in real time. Through these avatars they can perform a variety of handling tasks and can interact with humans – from audio and video transmission to direct physical contact. Team NimbRo from the University of Bonn has now qualified for the finals in Miami (USA) and is to receive 100,000 US dollars. The prize purse for the finals is eight million US dollars.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. – National Water Research Institute (NWRI) is pleased to announce the 2021 Clarke Prize Laureate is Dr. Shane A. Snyder, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), and Executive Director of NTU’s Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NEWRI). NWRI presents the annual $50,000 prize to recognize researchers that solve real-world water problems.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst will be one of two sites for a national study that aims to better understand language and cognition in two groups of children affected by language disorders.

The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory has unveiled a research announcement seeking proposals to demonstrate biomanufacturing activities in microgravity. Targeted fields such as tissue engineering and biomanufacturing provide use cases for how ISS National Lab-sponsored research may lead to new biological products and tools that benefit humankind and drive a sustainable market in low Earth orbit.

Three Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have been elected fellows by the American Physical Society (APS). The new APS fellows are Eric Brown, Takeyasu Ito and Nathan Moody.

Governor J. B. Pritzker announced that the State of Illinois would be providing $1.5 million to Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) to renovate 2,770 square feet of existing Illinois Tech wet lab space to create a specialized multi-tenant laboratory called the Neurotissue and Organoid Innovation Laboratory (NOIL) for advanced research in translational neurotechnology.