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Meteorically rising scholar Ben McDonald has just finished what he describes as “the herculean task of preparing a comprehensive review on how intermolecular interactions in time (and their modulation by environmental stimuli in time) enables the programming of the assembly, structure, and properties of hydrogels (water swollen polymer networks like most tissue).

Dr. Stephanie Haro, current postdoctoral fellow and previous fellow of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), recently published a paper titled “A Brain-Computer Interface for Improving Auditory Attention in Multi-Talker Environments” as part of her thesis work.

Ian Wong, Associate Professor of Engineering, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine, and company have a new paper out in Nature Physics. Below is the abstract: Coordinated cell rotation along a curved matrix interface can sculpt epithelial tissues into spherical morphologies.

Olivia Pomerenk, a Hope Street Postdoctorial Fellow at Brown, recently published a new paper titled “State change via one-dimensional scattering in quantum physics.” Below is the abstract: This study aims to address the nature of state change, measurement, and probabilistic outcomes in non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

The work of Dr. Alison Tovar, who is currently heading up the Brown Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity, appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and was therefore featured in the most recent SPH bulletin.

Dr. Sohini Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology and Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was recently published in the Boston Globe alongside C.

Juliana Londono-Alvarez’a paper on stable attractors (also called limit cycles) using recurrent networks opens up possibilities for the field of neural networks. Here is an excerpt of “Attractor-Based Models for Sequences and Pattern Generation in Neural Circuits” (Juliana Londono-Alvarez, Katherine Morrison & Carina Curto)

Sylvester James Gates Jr. is now the first black Fellow of both the American Mathematical Society AND the American Physical Society! The fellowship of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

The Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) is pleased to announce Chibuikem Nwizu’s defense on Monday, November 3 at 9am in the Data Science Institute’s Seminar Space! Nwizu is to defend under the advisory of Dr.

Dr. Kenya Andrews, a Provost STEMJazz Postdoctoral Fellow and proud graduate of the Spelman College Dual Degree Engineering Program, is headed to Howard to give a talk on October 16th. You can watch her in action virtually through this link.