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BIOTECHNOLOGY

Techniques and Skills for Biotech - Godfrey Ssenyonga, Forensics Biology Laboratory Instructor, Frederick Community College, Senior Laboratory Technician/ Lab manager, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; November 1, 2018 - Frederick, MD

- How invading jumping genes are thwarted

- Mechanisms of action of key genetic abnormality in Ewing sarcoma

- Anti-cancer virus fits tumor receptor like a 'key in a lock'

- New blood test offers potential for faster, targeted treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering of Plants - Hannah Weeden, Research Technologist, Central PA Research and Teaching Laboratory for Biofuels; October 4, 2018 - Harrisburg, PA

- Stem cells organize themselves into pseudo-embryos

- Blue roses could be coming soon to a garden near you

- To save iconic American chestnut, researchers plan introduction of genetically engineered tree into the wild

- Beyond pesticides: Engineered crops that fertilize themselves from air

- Gene editing could turn this wild orphan fruit into your new favorite berry

Evolution of Antibacterial Discovery - Dr. Laura McDowell, Senior Investigator, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research; October 10, 2017 - Hayward, CA

- New antibiotic resistance genes found

- The world is running out of antibiotics, WHO report confirms

- New antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria

- How we can stop antibiotic resistance

- Superbug Fears 2017: Can Antibiotic Discovery Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria?

Creating Vaccines, Protecting Life - Dr. Brian, Schanen, Associate Director of Systems Approaches, Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign; March 29, 2017 - Orlando, FL

- CDC Issues New Vaccine Guidelines for Adults

- Tracking the New Vaccine Pipeline

- New vaccine could prevent thousands of childhood deaths

- Zika Virus Vaccines

- Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease

An Introduction to Bioinformatics and Teaching it in the Classroom - Dr. Ashley Haines, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Norfolk State University; October 18, 2016 - Norfolk, VA

- Scientific and Commercial Aspects - Biomarkers Playing an Important Role in Personalized Medicine

- Small genomic insertions form enhancers that misregulate oncogenes

- Contaminants Affect Fish and Wildlife in the Chesapeake Bay

- Using Big Data Certs As A Stepping Stone For A Career In Bioinformatics

- Furthering data analysis of next-generation sequencing to facilitate research

Signal Transduction & Precision Medicine - Dr. Claudius Mueller, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University; April 5, 2016 - Manassas, VA

- Researchers now have a way to study special proteins linked to different diseases, cancer

- Brain Cancer Breakthrough: Abnormal Metabolism Of Essential Amino Acids May Spur Tumor Growth

- Statistical Analysis Could Improve Understanding and Treatment of Different Brain Tumors

- Nanoproteomic analysis of ischemia-dependent changes in signaling protein phosphorylation in colorectal normal and cancer tissue

- One-Step Preservation of Phosphoproteins and Tissue Morphology at Room Temperature for Diagnostic and Research Specimens

- Optimizing Precision Medicine Approaches in Glioblastoma

TechLab, Inc. & Careers in the Life Sciences - Rob Day, Chief Operating Officer, TechLab; February 9, 2016 - Roanoke, VA

- Good news: frozen fecal transplantation as effective as fresh

- California Confirms E. coli Outbreak Linked to Organic Pastures Raw Milk

- Dogs Thwart Effort to Eradicate Guinea Worm

- Chipotle warns of sales drop as E. coli outbreak expands to 9 states, 52 cases

- Innovative Therapeutic Approach Shows Promise in Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Industrial Microbiology Uses and Symbiosis - Rasmus Rune Hansen, Sr. Department Manager of R&D, Novozymes Biologicals, Inc; March 26, 2015 - Roanoke, VA

- Cleaner Living Through Smarter Microbiology

- Irish teens win Google science fair with bacteria-enhanced plant growth

- The Technology That Will Build Our Future May Be Found In Mushrooms

- 'Super bacteria' clean up after oil spills

The Promise of Pluripotent Stem Cells - Dr. Joanna Asprer, Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Life Sciences Group, ThermoFisher Scientific; January 29, 2015 - San Diego, CA

- Pluripotent stem cells used to generate hair growth

- Yamanaka Interview on Clinical Use of Pluripotent Stem Cells

- New reprogramming factor cocktail produces therapy-grade induced pluripotent stem cells

Multi-pronged Approach to Treat Cancer - Dr. Jonathan Rios-Doria, Scientist II, Oncology Research, MedImmune; September 10, 2014 - Baltimore, MD

- NIH study demonstrates that a new cancer immunotherapy method could be effective against a wide range of cancers

- NYT - Breaking Through Cancer’s Shield

- New Cancer Immunotherapy Aims Powerful T Cells Against Tumors

- Forbes - Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?

Drug development, Drug Packaging, Bioassays - Dr. Shawn Bairstow, Research Scientist II, Medical Products: Pharmaceutical Development, Baxter Healthcare Corporation; November 6, 2013 – Chicago, IL

- DDNEWS – Pharma, Biotech, & Life Science

- Tiny 'Lego' Blocks Build Janus Nanotubes With Potential for New Drugs and Water Purification

- Breaking Through Cancer’s Shield

- Propping Open the Door to the Blood Brain Barrier

- New Chemical Approach to Treat Alzheimer's

Nanoscience, Novel Research on Statins - Dr. Gloria Gutierrez, Principal Scientist, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division, Southwest Research Institute; March 21, 2013 – San Antonio, TX

- Cancer Fighting Nanoparticles

- Achilles heel: Popular drug-carrying nanoparticles get trapped in bloodstream

- Dual Action Polyclonal Antibody May Offer More Effective, Safer Protection Against Osteoporosis

Drug Development - Dr. Robert Kernstock, Astellas Pharma Global Development; October 9, 2012 - Oak Brook, IL

- Scientists Notch a Win in War Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

- Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lower costs – MIT News

- Potential to Revive Abandoned Cancer Drug by Nanoparticle Drug Delivery

Nanotechnology, Cancer Detection - Dr. Alessandra Luchini, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University; September 18, 2012 - Manassas, VA

- MIT News: New technology may enable earlier cancer diagnosis

- Probe to Detect Spread of Breast Cancer Gets Distribution Boost

- New Test Could Help Detect Pancreatic Cancer Early

- Researchers Attach Lyme Disease Antibodies to Nanotubes

- Genome Testing Reduces Overtreatment

CELL BIOLOGY

Toxoplasma gondii: Master Cellular Hijacker - Dr. Pascale S. Guiton, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Cal State East Bay; October 25, 2018 - Hayward, CA

- Systems analysis points to links between Toxoplasma infection and common brain diseases

- Parasite makes quick exit when researchers remove the handbrake

- A new twist on how parasites invade host cells

- Potential drug target against large family of parasites is identified

- Whole blood test for toxoplasmosis is sensitive, specific

Controlling the Cell's Blueprint - Dr. Angie Hilliker, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Richmond; September 25, 2018 - Richmond, VA

- There's a better way to decipher DNA's epigenetic code to identify disease

- Molecular guardians monitor chromosomes during cell division

- 'Double agent' in the immune system may make us vulnerable to bacterial infections

- Recording device for cell history

From Farm to Phage - Dr. Andrea Beyer, Assistant Professor, Virginia State University; March 21, 2018 - Petersburg, VA

- ‘Nanobot’ viruses tag and round up bacteria in food and water

- A Man with a Life-Threatening Heart Infection Was Saved by a Virus Plucked from a Lake

- Workbench for virus design

- Does a sea of viruses inside our body help keep us healthy?

- Fighting Bacterial Infection With… Viruses?

Transcription/Epigenetic Factors As Therapeutic Drug Targets - Dr. Sepideh Khorasanizadeh, Integrative Metabolism Program, SBP Medical Discovery Institute; March 29, 2017 - Orlando, FL

- Epigenetics of Obesity

- Epigenetic Computer Program ‘CancerLocator’ Detects and Pinpoints Cancer

- Revealed: Researchers Gain Insight into Breast Cancer Drug Resistance

- Air Pollution Found to Alter Important Epigenetic Mark

New Tools to Understand How Large Groups of Brain Cells Work Together to Drive Action - Dr. Peyman Golshani, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; February 23, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA

- Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases, UCLA biologists report

- Lightweight ‘Miniscope’ lights up mouse brains around the lobe

- Migraine-Fighting Arm Patch Shows Small Effect

- The American Society of Neuroimaging gives William R. Kinkel, UB professor of neurology, its first lifetime achievement award

- Sequencing thousands of whole genomes yields new autism genes

Viruses and Diseases - Dr. Jackie Dudley, Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin; January 24, 2017 - Austin, TX

- Exclusive: Dicerna CEO Explains RNA Interference And How It's Used To Treat Rare Genetic Diseases

- More ancient viruses lurk in our DNA than we thought

- Assessing the Epidemic Potential of RNA and DNA Viruses

- Editorial: Molecular Diagnostics in the Detection of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Curiosity, Creativity, Communication, and Coping - Dr. John C. Chappell, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; February 9, 2016 - Roanoke, VA

- Newly identified protein may hold key to preventing diabetes-induced blindness

- Scientists identify main component of brain repair after stroke

- Blood exerts a powerful influence on the brain

- Curing multiple sclerosis: Stem cells are starting to prove their value as medical treatments

- Engineered Tissue Generates Its Own Capillaries

Bugs, Thugs, and the Law - Dr. David Rivers, Director of Forensic Studies Minor, Loyola University Maryland; December 3, 2015 - Baltimore, MD

- Meet the "living dead": Forensic scientists' new weapon

- Forensic Entomology is More than Just Blow Flies and Beetles

- Finding Crime Clues In What Insects Had For Dinner

- Lords of the flies: the insect detectives

Matrix Biology and Science Education - Dr. Isi Ero-Tolliver, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Hampton University; October 22, 2015 - Hampton, VA

- Sulfilimine Cross-Links: A Key to Tissue Evolution

- Bromine Found to be Essential to Human Life

- Bringing life into biology lessons: using the fruit fly Drosophila as a powerful modern teaching tool

From Country Boy to Neuroscientist: A Winding Path, a Colorful Vision - Dr. Michael Grace, Associate Dean, College of Science, Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology; September 29, 2015 - Melbourne, FL

- Red Ropes May Help Whales Avoid Entanglements

- Through the eyes of a tarpon (pdf)

Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Live Cancer Cell Imaging - Dr. Debbie Kelly, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; March 26, 2015 - Roanoke, VA

- First Detailed Microscopy Evidence of Bacteria at the Lower Size Limit of Life

- Researchers use cryo-electron microscopy to learn how DNA wraps tightly around nucleosomes

- How cells defend themselves against antibiotics and cytostatic agents

- New Nano3 microscope will allow high-resolution look inside cells

Healed by a Crocodile: The Search for Novel Antibiotics - Dr. Monique Van Hoek, Associate Professor, NCBID, George Mason University; February 12, 2015 - Manassas, VA

- Antibiotics in Groundwater Affect Natural Bacteria

- Antibiotic Resistance From Unexpected Sources--Herbicides, Dust And Metals

- Essential Oils Might Be the New Antibiotics

- Promising antibiotic discovered in microbial ‘dark matter’

- A New Antibiotic Found in Dirt Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Neurotransmitters, Transporters, and Flies - Dr. David Krantz, Assoc. Prof in Residence, Dept of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA; January 28, 2014 - Los Angeles, CA

- Nobel Prize winner reports new model for neurotransmitter release

- New discovery gives hope that nerves could be repaired after spinal cord injury

- Getting to the root of Parkinson's disease

- Fly brain 'atlas' opens door to linking human neurons to actions

Immune System and Allergies - Dr. John J. Ryan, Immunologist, Virginia Commonwealth University; October 9, 2013 – Richmond, VA

- Study Suggests U.S. Children Born Outside The United States Have Lower Risk of Allergic Disease

- The Immune System Benefits from Life in the Countryside

- Mature T Cells Can Switch Function to Better Tackle Infection

- Nanotechnology Against Pollen Allergy

- Innate immune cells in asthma

Cell Biology, Staph infection, Drug development - Dr. Susan McDowell, Department of Biology, Ball State University; September 27, 2012 - Indianapolis, IN

- Scientists Notch a Win in War Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

- Microbes use a channel protein as a syringe for toxins

- How Bacteria Attack Their Host Cells With Sticky Lollipops

Biochemistry, protein structure and folding - Dr. Clark Gedney, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University; September 26, 2012 - West Lafayette, IN

- Neurodegenerative Diseases: New Findings On Protein Misfolding

- Protein Knots Gain New Evolutionary Significance

- MITnews: Sorting out the structure of a Parkinson’s protein

- Unusual protein helps regulate key cell communication pathway

- First-ever determination of protein structure with X-ray laser

ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

Muscles Have Feelings Too: Unraveling How Stretch Sensitive Muscle Neurons Work & What Makes Them Malfunction - Dr. Katie Wilkinson, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University; October 24, 2018 - San Jose, CA

- Robotic device developed to help stroke survivors recover

- Controlling a prosthesis with your brain

- Neurons in human muscles emphasize the impact of the outside world

- Synthetic nerve flexes a cockroach’s muscle

- An artificial nerve system gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch

Sex, Ageing and Clocks - Dr. Jennifer Swann, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University; October 3, 2018 - Lehigh Valley, PA

- Scientists Want to Align Your Internal Clock Because Timing Is Everything

- Seizure Cycles May Follow Circadian Rhythms

- Using the body clock to make drugs more effective

- Timing is everything: How body-clock medicine tackles age-old diseases

- Keene, NH Votes to Delay School Start Times

Seasonal Reproductive Sheep Physiology and the Pre-Health Professions Program at Ferrum College - Dr. Katie Goff, Associate Professor of Biology, Ferrum College; September 12, 2018 - Rocky Mount, VA

- Carnivores in captivity give birth at the same time of year as those in the wild

- Is it time yet? Climate change disturbs breeding and nesting season in birds

- Scientists discover how animals measure time of year to reproduce

- The Secret Lives of Cadavers

- What Happens to Your Body When It's Donated to Science?

The Microbiome and Human Metabolism - Dr. Karen D. Corbin, Investigator, Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes; Februrary 28, 2018 - Orlando, FL

- Our Microbiomes Are Making Scientists Question What it Means to Be Human

- Environment, Not Genetics, Primarily Shapes Microbiome Composition

- Study Connects Gut Microbiome Composition With Obesity

- Cancer and the microbiome: What's old is new again

- Manipulating Gut Microbiome May Protect Against Intestinal Parasites

Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Friend, Foe or Fraud? - Dr. Chris Thompson, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola University Maryland; November 13, 2017 - Baltimore, MD

- Variations in the Types and Amounts of Bacteria in Echinacea Plants May Influence the Herb’s Effects on Infectious Disease

- NIH Review Finds Nondrug Approaches Effective For Treatment of Common Pain Conditions

- Acupuncture relieves pain in emergency patients: Study

- Curcumin Beats Diabetes Drug at Lowering Blood Sugar: Study

- Acupuncture, electrotherapy after knee replacement associated with reduced and delayed opioid use

The Selfish Microbiome - Dr. Patrick Gillevet, Director, Microbiome Analysis Center, Professor , Department of Biology, George Mason University; March 16, 2017 - Manassas, VA

- Human Gut Microbe Transplant Alters Mouse Behavior

- Antibiotics Weaken Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Through Changes in Gut Microbiome

- Industry bets on the microbiome’s host of opportunities

- Bacteria Are Brewing Up the Next Generation of Antivenoms

- Inflammation Drives Gut Bacteria Evolution

Exercise Science: A Launch Pad for a Career in the Health Sciences and Beyond - Dr. Jessica L. Kutz, Assistant Professor, Exercise Science, Shenandoah University; February 16, 2017 - Middletown, VA

- Student Corey Cantrell featured on WVLT for Percussion Therapy

- Free training, nutrition classes for 100 at USM

- The 10,000-step myth and the real health goals you should aim for

- New approach to measure fluid drag on the body during swimming

- Super Bowl 2017: Is a Turf or Grass Field Riskier for Players?

Acute Therapies For Stroke Translational Stroke Research - Dr. Louise D. McCullough, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Science Center at Houston; January 26, 2017 - Houston, TX

- Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients

- New Stroke Treatment Saves Lives, Improves Recovery

- Most stroke patients should go to inpatient rehab facilities, not nursing homes, heart/stroke association says

- How Is a Stroke Treated?

- Resources released on endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke

Artemisinin Regulation of Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer Cells - Dr. Shyam Sundar, Faculty, Biology Department, Ohlone College; September 29, 2016 - Fremont, CA

- Artemisinin Blocks Prostate Cancer Growth and Cell Cycle Progression by Inhibiting CDK4 Gene Expression

- An Artemisinin-Derived Dimer Has Highly Potent Anti-Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Anti-Cancer Activities

- Artemisinin our Ultimate Cancer Weapon a Gift from China

- Artemisinin reduces cell proliferation and induces apoptosis in neuroblastoma

- Researchers identify 'Achilles' heel' of PTEN that helps drive prostate cancer progression

Skeletal Muscle Adaptation(s): From the Field to the Lab and Clinic - Dr. Robert Standley, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Translational Research Institute For Metabolism And Diabetes; March 3, 2016 - Orlando, FL

- Fish Oil for Muscle Pain

- Fitness: Are Olympians born or bred?

- Do Pain Pills Impair Muscle Growth?

- Reversing Muscle Atrophy With Food: Eating Apples, Green Tomatoes May Increase Muscle Strength

- Exercise and obesity-induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle

High? Low? Fast or Slow? Blood Pressure, Medical Science, and the Art of Asking Questions - Dr. Dena Rifkin, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego Health; February 18, 2016 - San Diego, CA

- Why The Southern U.S. is Also Known as ‘The Stroke Belt'

- Dr. Nina: Take control of your blood pressure

- Low Blood Pressure Linked to Death Risk, Study Finds

- Ignoring doctor's orders: Not filling new prescription is common patient habit, study shows

Insights into the Teenage Brain - Dr. Adriana Galván, Associate Professor of Psychology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA; February 16, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA

- Why Teens Are Impulsive, Addiction-Prone And Should Protect Their Brains

- A thalamic input to the nucleus accumbens mediates opiate dependence

- The teenage brain: There may be a silver lining to all that misbehavior

- The Science of Decision Making and Peer Pressure

Key Concepts and Principles of Learning and Memory - Dr. John Byrne, Professor and Chairman, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Associate Dean for Research, UTHealth, McGovern Medical School; January 25, 2016 - Houston, TX

- Is there any science behind the lack of women in science?

- What happens in your brain when you make a memory?

- Cache Cab: Taxi Drivers' Brains Grow to Navigate London's Streets

- Remembering to the future: Researchers shed new light on how our memories guide attention

- Meet the Two Scientists Who Implanted a False Memory Into a Mouse

Biomarkers of Traumatic Brain Injury - Dr. Cameron Jeter, Assistant Professor, School of Dentistry, UT Health Science Center at Houston; February 25, 2015 - Houston, TX

- UCLA study first to image concussion-related abnormal brain proteins in retired NFL players

- Can a Smell Test Help Identify Traumatic Brain Injury?

- Could a ‘Trojan Horse’ Better Identify Traumatic Brain Injury?

- FDA clears traumatic brain injury diagnosis app

Studying the Sense of Smell Using Worms - Dr. Elissa Hallem, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Department, University California Los Angeles; January 28, 2015 - Los Angeles, CA

- Your Sense of Smell Could Predict When You'll Die

- Thorny-headed worms make shrimps lose their sense to smell fish predators

- Like Worms to a Bomb

- Dogs' Dazzling Sense of Smell

- The sense of smell uses fast dynamics to encode odors

Brain Synapses and Learning - Dr. Michael Friedlander, Director, VT Carilion Research Institute; February 25, 2014 - Roanoke, VA

- What songbirds tell us about how we learn

- Neuroscientists: Brain activity may mark beginning of memories

- In mapping feat, scientists pinpoint neurons where select memories grow

- Scripps Florida Scientists Identify Critical New Protein Complex Involved in Learning and Memory

- Neurons in the Brain Tune into Different Frequencies for Different Spatial Memory Tasks

Chocolate, Epicatechins and Heart Disease - Dr. Pam Taub, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSD; January 30, 2014 - San Diego, CA

- Drink to your health with the benefits of tea

- Eat Chocolate To Get Thin? Study Touts Cocoa For Weight Loss

- Chemists discover secret to dark chocolate's health benefits

- Chocolate and cardiovascular disease: a sweet deal?

- High Chocolate Consumption May Reduce Heart Disease Risk By One Third

Genetics of diabetes and other common diseases - Dr. Leslie J. Raffel, Assoc. Director, Common Diseases Genetics Prgm, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; January 29, 2014 - Los Angeles, CA

- Rare Mutation Kills Off Gene Responsible for Diabetes

- New clues in hunt for heredity in type 2 diabetes

- New Genes IDd in Obesity: How Much of Weight is Genetic?

- Physicians target the genes of lung, colon cancers

Huntington's Disease research - Dr. William Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; February 26, 2013- Los Angeles, CA

- Aggregation of Proteins in Cells May Result in Diseases

- Neurodegenerative Diseases: New Findings On Protein Misfolding

MARINE BIOLOGY

How to Study Dolphins Without Really Trying - Dr. Samuel Urmy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; October 23, 2018 - Monterey Bay, CA

- Bubbling up: listening to photosynthesis may help reef conservation

- Marine animals can hear us swim, kayak and scuba dive

- Humpback whales stop singing when ships are near

- Growing noise in the ocean can cause dolphins to simplify their calls

- Whale songs evolve, but calls persist for generations

Marine Behavioral Biology: Caribbean Spiny Lobsters - Dr. Michael Childress, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences Department, Clemson University; April 25, 2018 - Clemson, SC

- The Social Life of Fish and How It Affects the Health of Coral Reefs

- Marine scientists discover kleptopredation, a new way of catching prey

- A smart skin for marine biology research

- 'Eating with the eyes' is hard-wired in the brain

- Fish study IDs genes that regulate social behaviors

Coral ecology, coral diseases and bleaching: What will coral reefs look like in the future? - Dr. Laura D. Mydlarz, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington; March 29, 2018 - Dallas, TX

- Where Plastic Goes, Coral Disease Follows

- New Coral Nursery Installed in Bonaire

- Reefs are dying. Scientists hope lab-bred 'super corals' can help revive them

- How climate change weakens coral ‘immune systems’

- A successful coral transplant gives scientists hope for the Great Barrier Reef

Coral and Phage Research - Dr. Forest Rohwer, Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University; January 22, 2018 - San Diego, CA

- Soil Sequencing Uncovers 500 Common, Abundant Bacterial Species

- 11 Billion Pieces of Plastic Are Riddling Corals With Disease

- Rethinking role of viruses in coral reef ecosystems

- A Grand Unified Theory of Unhealthy Microbiomes

- Bacterial DNA sequencing could help design 'friendlier' nanoparticles

Deep-sea carbon uptake off the California Coast? - Dr. Christine Huffard, Senior Research Technician, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; October 12, 2017 - Moss Landing, CA

- Scientists find exotic life in ocean depths off Sonoma Coast

- Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Sponge Could Be the Canary in the Seabed Mine

- Study: Deep Ignorance of the Deep Sea Threatens Ocean Biodiversity

- Researchers develop scientific plan to measure ocean's carbon cycle and predict its future conditions

- Hopes – and Fears – for Ambitious Project to Map the Entire Seabed

Hobcaw Barony and the USC Baruch Marine Field Laboratory - Dr. James L. Pinckney, Professor, Marine Science Program and Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina; September 14, 2016 - Columbia, SC

- Warm water discharge creating trouble for manatees?

- Economy: County joins initiative for sustainable development

- The flood: For scientists, a rare opportunity for study

- Cal Poly Study Reveals Resilience of Coastal Ecosystems

- Iconic Antarctic geology lab gets the Boot

BOTANY

My Story, Rare Plant Conservation- Dr. Alan Griffith, Professor of Biology, University of Mary Washington; October 26, 2017 - Fredericksburg, VA

- Cumberland Marsh beckons birds and birders alike

- Drones hunt down rare plants in Hawaii by going where people can't

- Biologists and Computer Scientists Team up to Map a Global ‘Safety Net’ for the Planet

- Mapping Software Tracks Threats to Endangered Species

Exploiting Genomics and Team Science for Better Management of Plant Diseases - Dr. John McDowell, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech; February 15, 2017 - Roanoke, VA

- New chickpea cultivar—New Hope—offers just that

- Improving our food supply: Researcher, doctoral student receive federal fellowships to study grain crops, dairy production strategies

- Alum IDs new lichen in Bermuda

- Researchers Learn How to Keep Pathogens, Pests From Traveling with Grain

- Gene editing expected to bring changes to agriculture

“Animals” that Photosynthesize and “Plants” that Eat - Dr. Dale Holen, Associate Professor of Biology, PSU Worthington-Scranton; November 2, 2016 - Scranton, PA

- The making of a photosynthetic animal

- Eating the Sun: Can Humans Be Hacked to Do Photosynthesis?

- Sea Slug Steals Photosynthesis Genes From Algae

- Incredible Creatures that Use Photosynthesis For Energy

- How plants evolved into carnivores

Symbiotic Relations, Fungal infections, Plant Toxins - Dr. T.J. Sullivan, Molecular Ecologist, Indiana University-Kokomo; September 11, 2013 – Kokomo, IN

- Pirate-Like Flies Connect Symbiosis to Diversity

- Microbes Capture, Store, and Release Nitrogen to Feed Reef-Building Coral

- Bugs Need Symbiotic Bacteria to Exploit Plant Seeds

- Aggressive Fungal Pathogen Causes Mold in Fruits, Vegetables

- Barley Crops Affected by Disease Found On Common Wild Grass

Botany, Plants of Indiana - Michael Homoya, Indiana Department of Natural Resources; September 27, 2012 - Indianapolis, IN

- An Inside Look at Carnivorous Plants

- Glyphosate-resistant 'superweeds' may be less susceptible to diseases

- Can Observations of a Hardy Weed Help Feed the World?

ECOLOGY

Bugs, Plants, and Microbes - Dr. Josephine Antwi, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington; November 8, 2018 - Fredericksburg, VA

- Machine-learning app to fight invasive crop pest in Africa

- Genetic search reveals key to resistance in global cotton pest

- Scientists warn of insect pest outbreaks and reduced wheat yields

- Resistant varieties, beneficial predators can help producers win sugarcane aphid battle

- Control of West Indian Sweet Potato Weevils Informed by Their Mating Behavior

The Smell of Success in Snakes: Hormonal Control of Pheromone Production in Snakes - Dr. Rocky Parker, Assistant Professor of Biology, James Madison University; September 11, 2018 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Pythons are invading Florida. Meet the scientists fighting back

- Newly Discovered Hybrid Pythons Could Threaten Florida's Everglades

- These Mice Spy on Their Predators—By Sniffing Their Tears

- Fighting snake falls three storeys, gets female, relocated

- Researchers Look to Sex Pheromones to Trap an Invasive Snake

Watershed Ecology Center Outreach - Dr. Jack A. Turner, Retired Professor of Biology, Director of the Watershed Ecology Center, USC Upstate

- Research duo finds way to predict shifts in watersheds as climate changes

- Alligators on the beach? Killer whales in rivers? Get used to it

- Study aims to protect water at the source

- The Catawba River: A vital artery under mounting pressure

- A River’s Chemical Fingerprints Of Land Use And Ecology

Bringing Ecological Research to the Classroom to Teach Quantitative Literacy - Dr. Kristine Grayson, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Richmond; April 27, 2017 - Chester, VA

- Government sets target to make New Zealand 'predator-free' by 2050

- Predator-Free New Zealand

- Some like it hot, but not tuatara

- Climate change impacts tuatara population

- North Brother Island little more than a rock, but an important rock

- The Unlikely Comeback of New Zealand’s Weirdest ‘Living Fossil’

Where Have all the Pollinators Gone? - Dr. Jordanna Sprayberry, Assistant Professor of Biology, Muhlenberg College; November 3, 2016 - Allentown, PA

- First Bumblebee Declared Endangered in U.S.

- Being There for Bees

- The Benefits of Integrating Wearable Technology in Education

- Bumblebees’ Electric Sense

- Pheasants Forever pollinator initiative pivots on shared need for habitat

Turtles and Turtle Egg Physiology - Dr. Todd Rimkus, Professor & Department Chair, Biology & Physical Sciences, Marymount University; October 20, 2016 - Arlington, VA

- Mercury Contamination and Trophic Position in Turtles

- 'Shell' it out: Council Bluffs native makes scientific strides in sea turtle physiology

- Plastics chemical BPA can make male turtles act like females

- Turtle embryos genetically wired for hotter summers

- 19,000 Sea Turtle Eggs Seized in Anti-Smuggling Operation

Frog and Salamander Biodiversity / The Direction of Post-Secondary STEM Education & Research - Dr. Kerry Cresawn, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, James Madison University; October 12, 2016 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Unhoppy News: Long-term decline in common toads

- Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

- Amphibian Rescue In 2016: 5 Conservation Goals For This Year

- New Research Confirms Continued, Unabated and Large-Scale Amphibian Declines: Local Action Key to Reversing Losses

- Scientists race to stop an amphibian-killing fungus from entering the United States

Wildsumaco Biological Station - Travis W. Knowles, Associate Professor of Biology and Director, Wildsumaco Biological Station, Francis Marion University; September 15, 2016 - Florence, SC

- Research shows importance of remote cameras as biodiversity tools

- Carnivore diversity at a montane rainforest site in Ecuador's Gran Sumaco Biosphere Reserve

- Dawn Chorus: Ecuadorian Hummingbirds

- A new species of spiny-backed tree frog from Central Amazonian Brazil

- Birding in Ecuador: Part 7 - Wildsumaco Lodge

Electrophoresis, Fish Reproduction, and Bacterial Genetics - Dr. Bert Ely, Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Director, Center for Science Education, University of South Carolina; March 16, 2016 - Columbia, SC

- Caulobacter crescentus

Assembling the Conservation Puzzle: Conservation Science and Decision Making - Dr. Stephanie Lessard-Pilon, Term Assistant Professor of Conservation Studies, Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation; February 10, 2016 - Front Royal, VA

- How endosymbionts escape dead tubeworms and repopulate live specimens

- Scientists now link massive starfish die-off, warming ocean

- Elk thriving in Smokies 13 years after introduction

- Officials may reclassify Island Fox as threatened

- Ninth annual prairie dog conservation report card released

Ecology Evolution & Behavior - Dr. Daniel I. Bolnick, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin; January 27, 2016 - Austin, TX

- New finding shows that males can drive creation of new species

- Tweak in gene expression may have helped humans walk upright

- Repeated evolution and the impact of evolutionary history on adaptation

- Mankind’s Single Greatest Achievement… And Challenge

Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity - Dr. James Vonesh, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University; October 1, 2014 - Richmond, VA

- Climate change study reveals unappreciated impacts on biodiversity

- Inhabit(ants) of New York City: High Diversity Underfoot in Urban Environments

- Who will come to your bird feeder in 2075?

- When less is more: Death in moderation boosts population density in nature

The Environment and You, All Part of the Web - Dr. James Saunders, Retired Professor, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Towson University; September 10, 2014 - Baltimore, MD

- Pesticides more toxic for soil organisms in dry soil, at enhanced temperatures

- A touching story: The ancient conversation between plants, fungi and bacteria

- Filter bed substrates, plant types recommended for rain gardens

- Hungry, invasive ‘crazy worm’ makes first appearance in Wisconsin

Stream testing, Fish population analysis - Dr. Jerry Sweeten, Department of Biology, Manchester University; September 25, 2012 - Logansport, IN

- EPA survey: More than half of nation’s river and stream miles in poor condition

- Plants: Surprising Predictor of Ecosystem Chemistry

- Decreased Water Flow May be Trade-off for More Productive Forest

Below you will find news related to the topics presented at Bite of Science in the areas of Chemistry and Physics

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CHEMISTRY

Crystallography and Protein Structure - Dr. Poorva Dharkar, President, AWIS - Bethesda chapter, STEM Consultant; November 1, 2018 - Frederick, MD

- Ring-shaped protein complex wrangles DNA

- New high-precision instrument enables rapid measurements of protein crystals

- Biological light sensor filmed in action

- Uncovering a Hidden Protein “Tail” that Puts the Brakes on Cell Signaling

- Study sheds light on bacterial propeller assembly

Materials Research Science in 3D Printing - Marie Herring, Senior Research Scientist, Carbon; October 24, 2018 - San Jose, CA

- Origami, 3D printing merge to make complex structures in one shot

- Chemists develop safe alternatives to phthalates used in plastics

- New composite material that can cool itself down under extreme temperatures

- New 3D-printed device could help treat spinal cord injuries

- Smart technology for synchronized 3D printing of concrete

Forensics and Improving Chemistry Education Through Online Labs - Dr. Katie Amaral, Associate Professor of Chemistry Education, Penn State Berks; October 2, 2018 - Reading, PA

- Forensics: New tool predicts eye, hair and skin color from a DNA sample of an unidentified individual

- NIST builds statistical foundation for next-generation forensic DNA profiling

- Using bloodstains at crime scenes to determine age of a suspect or victim

- Knowing words’ origins helps students unravel chemistry

- Fingerprints lack scientific basis for legal certainty

Organic Chemistry in the High School Curriculum - Dr. George R. Negrete, Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Texas San Antonio; March 27, 2018 - San Antonio, TX

- Need to make a molecule? Ask this AI for instructions

- Searching for the chemistry of life on exoplanets

- Metal-free Catalyst Extends the Range of Ester Synthesis

- New method speeds up development of medication

- Longest carbon–carbon bond yet pushes chemistry to its limits

An Introduction to Process and Cleaning Validation in Biologics Industry - Michelle Lombardo, Scientist II, AstraZaneca; November 2, 2017 - Frederick, MD

- The future of biologics

- FDA takes big step towards manufacturing harmonisation with Europe

- Researchers map trends in drug development

- New Group Aims to Significantly Streamline Cancer Drug Discovery Process

Engineering BioPharmaceuticals - Dr. Mark Ketner, Senior Engineer & Principal Investigator, Engineered BioPharmaceuticals; September 13, 2017 - Danville, VA

- New method improves stability, extends shelf life of protein drugs

- Slingshot to shoot drugs onto the site of an infection

- Keeping Vaccines Safe in Tiny “Cages”

- Four Challenges for Pulmonary Drug Delivery

- How the Remarkable Tardigrade Springs Back to Life after Drying Out

A Career in Analytical Chemistry - Dr. Sara E. Andria, Sr. R&D Scientist, Analytical Services Group, WestRock; October 17, 2016 - Richmond, VA

- Analytical chemistry makes the news

- License agreement for analytical chemistry tech signed by ORNL and SCIEX

- Recent Trends in Analytical Chemistry Articles

- WestRock Named to Fortune's World's Most Admired Company List

- Clint Alfaro receives Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Best Paper Award 2016

Small Molecules, Materials & Devices - Dr. Roger Rasberry, Principal Scientist, Manufacturing Science and Technology Department, Roche Carolina, Inc.; September 15, 2016 - Florence, SC

- The University of Pittsburgh and ANSYS Develop New Computing Tools to Push the Boundaries of Additive Manufacturing

- Patheon to acquire Roche Carolina facility in Florence

- Pentagon told to boost manufacturing engineering education

- Closing Tech Gaps Can Fortify Advanced Manufacturing and Save $100 Billion Annually, NIST Studies Say

Chemistry of Smell and Autoimmune Skin Disease Research - Dr. John T. Reilly, Chair, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Florida Gulf Coast University; March 2, 2016 - Fort Myers, FL

- When a Woman Smells Best

- The Hidden Force of Fragrance

- Small molecules make scents

- Is There A Cure for Psoriasis?

- Scientists Engineer Cells to Treat Psoriasis in Mice

Becoming a Scientist and Corrosion Coating Technology - Marissa Johnsey, Chemist, Craig Technologies; March 1, 2016 - Melbourne, FL

- Powered by pee: New filtration system converts urine into water and electricity

- The science behind the Flint water crisis: corrosion of pipes, erosion of trust

- Smart Coating Technology Receives Top ‘Create the Future Design’ Award

- NAWCAD Partners with Local Small Business for Environmentally-Friendly Anti-Corrosion Technology

- Graphene to Replace Hexavalent Chromium as Steel Coating

- Insight: After disaster, the deadliest part of Japan's nuclear clean-up

Assembling Molecules for Materials Science and Sensing - Dr. John Lavigne, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina; October 23, 2014 - Sumter, SC

- Scientists Develop Technique To Produce Self-Assembling Anticancer Molecules In Minutes

- Chemists create 'assembly-line' for organic molecules

- Indiana University chemists demonstrate 'bricks-and-mortar' assembly of new molecular structures

- Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore’s Law

Nanotechnology, Engineering and Applications - Dr. Messaoud Bahoura, Associate Professor of Engineering, Center for Materials Research, Norfolk State University, October 2, 2014 - Norfolk, VA

- DNA-built nanoparticles safely target cancer tumours

- Iowa State, Ames Lab researcher working to save energy with nanotechnology insulation

- New Material Makes Water and Oil Roll off

- “Mind the Gap” Between Atomically Thin Materials

- NASA ultra-black nano-coating to be applied to 3-D new solar coronagraph

DuPont Kevlar Technology - Laurel Rodini, Manufacturing Technology Engineering, Kevlar Polymer, DuPont USA, October 1, 2014 - Richmond, VA

- Graphene body armor: Twice the stopping power of Kevlar, at a fraction of the weight

- High-Strength Materials from the Pressure Cooker

- Nanocellulose: A cheap, conductive, stronger-than-Kevlar wonder material made from wood pulp

- IBM Researchers Discover New Kinds of Strong, Recyclable Polymers

Therapeutic Metabolomics, Mass Spectroscopy/Gas Chromatography - Dr. Mark Libardoni, Staff Scientist, Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute; February 13, 2014 - San Antonio, TX

- Metabolic profiling of Alzheimer's disease brains

- Metabolomic analyses for atherosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity

- Personalized medicine in human space flight: using Omics based analyses to develop individualized countermeasures that enhance astronaut safety and performance

Aquaculture, Chemistry - Dave Anderson, Aquaculture Product Manager, OriginOil; January 28, 2014 - Los Angeles, CA

- Oyster Aquaculture Could Improve Water Quality of Potomac River

- Eating Fish Saves Water

- The End of the Line – Time Magazine

- The Future Of Clean, Green Fish Farming Could Be Indoor Factories - NPR

- Salmon Farming Gets Leaner and Greener – National Geographic

Chemistry Demos - Michael Davis, Interim Vice President, Wilbur Wright College; November 5, 2013 – Chicago, IL

- Chicago STEM Pathways Cooperative

- New Chemistry: Drawing and Writing in Liquid with Light

- Liquid Nitrogen is Amazing

Spectrophotometry, Pigment chemistry - Dr. Patricia Lang, Analytical/Physical Chemist, Chemistry Department Chair, Ball State University; September 12, 2013 – Indianapolis, IN

- Mayan Blue Pigment Recipe Revealed In New Chemical Analysis Of Ancient Paint

- Preserving Van Gogh's Priceless Masterpieces

Materials Science, Biomimicry - Dr. Steve Seghi, Materials Scientist; September 10, 2013 – Crane, IN

- Printable Biotechnology

- Widespread Natural Adhesion System Unraveled

- Rust Can Power Up Artificial Photosynthesis

- New Small-Molecule Catalyst Does Work of Many Enzymes

- Scientists Develop Artificial Surfaces Insects Cannot Stick To

Chemical Engineering, Product Development - Dr. Maura Fiero, Chemical Engineer, MeadWestvaco; October 23, 2012 - Richmond, VA

- Plastic isn’t over yet

- Manufacturing “The Cheap”

- Wax-Filled Nanotubes Flex Their Muscles

- Ants’ behavior leads to Wayne State University researcher’s method for optimizing product development time, costs

Ethanol production, Chemistry - Casey McMurtrie, Chemist, Andersons Clymers Ethanol; September 25, 2012 - Logansport, IL

- Researchers upgrade ethanol to a better fuel

- Energy Beet Juice Can be Stored for Ethanol Production

- Wastewater Could Be Used in Cellulosic Ethanol Production

- Ethanol-To-Butanol Conversion A Biofuel Plus

- Scientists seek enzymes that don’t mind working at high temperatures

PHYSICS

High Energy Nuclear Physics at Muhlenberg College - Dr. Brett Fadem, Associate Professor and Chair of the Muhlenberg College Physics Department; September 28, 2017 - Allentown, PA

- Physicists detect whiff of new particle at the Large Hadron Collider

- The Higgs Boson's Twin Could Reveal Our Universe's Dark Sector

- Physicists Find We’re Not Living in a Computer Simulation

- Open Data From the Large Hadron Collider Sparks New Discovery

- Concrete Applications for Accelerator Science

Gredig Research Lab: Gas Sensors, Solar Cells, Low-Dimensional Magnetism - Dr. Thomas Gredig, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Long Beach; February 22, 2017 - Long Beach, CA

- Environmental Gas Sensors 2017-2027: Growing Awareness of Air Pollution will be Driving the Demand for Gas Sensors - Research and Markets

- Researchers study promising solar cell materials — with laser focus

- Electric control of magnetism in low-dimensional magnets on ferroelectric surfaces

- Society of Physics Students Society News

- Cool Star Lab Presents Work at 2016 Physics Education Research Conference

Toward "Perfect" 1D Electrical Conduction - Dr. David Goldhaber-Gordon, Professor of Physics, Stanford University; September 17, 2015 - Palo Alto, CA

- New nanomaterial maintains conductivity in three dimensions

- Graphene light bulbs to go on sale this year: Next-generation efficient bulbs should last 10% longer than LEDs

- Breakthrough paves way for post-silicon future with carbon nanotube electronics

- Atom-Thick Silicon Makes Crazy-Fast Transistors

Radiology in Cancer Treatment - Dr. Naren Ramakrishna, Director, Proton Therapy; Co-Director, Neuro/Pediatric Radiation Oncology; Brain and Spine Tumor Program, UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando; March 5th - Orlando, FL

- A Scientific First - Physicists, physicians, engineers photograph radiation beams in the human body through the Cherenkov effect

- Manganese Dioxide Nanoparticles Increase Tumor Vulnerability To Radiation Therapy

- Biomarkers predict effectiveness of radiation treatments for head and neck cancer

Fiber Optic Sensing Technology - Emily Horrell, Research Engineer, Luna Innovations, Inc.; February 25, 2014 - Roanoke, VA

- Fiber optic sensors to monitor reinforced concrete corrosion

- Sensing Trouble: Fiber-Optics in Civil Engineering

- Market for fiber optics sensors to hit $4bn by 2017

- Acoustic sensing - The ear underground

Catching Gravitational Waves, LIGO - Dr. Dennis Ugolini, Physics Professor, Trinity University; February 13, 2014 - San Antonio, TX

- Multiverse Controversy Heats Up over Gravitational Waves

- Gravitational-wave finding causes 'spring cleaning' in physics

- How Do You See Gravitational Waves?

- To Discover Gravitational Waves, Someone's Got to Keep the Antarctic Telescope Cold

Fusion and the Periodic Table - Richard L. Lee, Chief Operator, DIII-D Tokamak Operations, General Atomics; January 30, 2014 - San Diego, CA

- Baby Steps on the Road to Fusion Energy

- Machinery of an Energy Dream

- A promising concept on the path to fusion energy

- Has Fusion Finally Solved Its Hype Problem?

- ITER: How a new star will be born

Electrical engineering, electricity - Emanuel E. Bernabeu, Electrical Engineer, Dominion Virginia Power; October 9, 2013 – Richmond, VA

- Breakthrough in Photonics Could Allow for Faster and Faster Electronics

- Emissions and Costs of Power Plant Cycling Necessary for Increased Wind and Solar Calculated

- Solar Energy: A Richer Harvest On the Horizon

- Harnessing the Sun's Energy With Tiny Particles

- Tool Created to Avert Future Energy Crisis

Hydrology, Vaccuum apparatus demo kit projects - James Rohr, Ph.D., Director of STEM Outreach, SPAWAR; February 28, 2013 – San Diego, CA

- Seagrass Meadows Shelter Fish in Silence

- Fishing for Fluid Dynamics

- A Submarine That Doesn't Make Waves

- 'Sound Maps' May Help Pigeons Navigate

- Proposed Cloaking Device for Water Waves Could Protect Ships at Sea

Science of Light, Nature of Science - Lawrence Woolf, Ph.D., Reconnaissance Systems Group, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems; February 28, 2013 – San Diego, CA

- Forget About Leprechauns, Engineers are Catching Rainbows

- Thousands of invisibility cloaks trap a rainbow

- 'Metasurfaces' to usher in new optical technologies

- Making efficient color filter for display applications

Physics of Roller Coasters - Dr. David Wright, Physicist, Tidewater Community College Physics; November 13, 2012 - Norfolk, VA

- Rocket powered by nuclear fusion could send humans to Mars

- Spiderman's webbing would be strong enough to stop a moving train, say physics students

- Force is the key to granular state-shifting

- Everyone loves a falling slinky

- Adhesion disturbed by noise

Below you will find news related to the topics presented at Bite of Science in the areas of Earth Science, Environmental Science, Space/Astronomy.

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EARTH SCIENCE

Groundwater in Southeastern Virginia - Dr. Richard Whittecar, Associate Professor, Ocean Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion University; September 26, 2018 - Norfolk, VA

- NASA finds Virginia metro area is sinking unevenly

- Deep groundwater aquifers respond rapidly to climate variability

- Tracking wastewater's path to wells, groundwater

- Soil could filter antibiotics from treated wastewater, protecting groundwater

- Mushrooms Could Help Clean Toxic Groundwater in New Mexico

Sensors and Science - Dr. Matt Becker, Professor, Conrey Endowed Chair of Hydrogeology, Department of Geological Sciences, California State University Long Beach; January 24, 2018 - Long Beach, CA

- How Offshore Groundwater Shapes the Seafloor

- Cal State University playing a critical role in water conservation

- Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Water in California

- Dark Fiber: Using Sensors Beneath Our Feet to Tell Us About Earthquakes, Water, and Other Geophysical Phenomena

Paleoclimatology & Paleooceanography - Dr. Kristen St. John, Professor, James Madison University; September 11, 2017 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Scientists Propose New Contributing Cause for ‘Great Oxidation Event’

- Sediment Cores Reveal Ocean Current’s Past Life

- Scientists explore the hidden continent of Zealandia

- Improving Our Understanding of El Niño in a Warm Climate

- Massive Antarctic volcanic eruptions linked to abrupt Southern hemisphere climate changes

Oceanography and Florida Sea Level Rise - Dr. George Maul, Professor of Oceanography, Ocean Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology; March 28, 2017 - Melbourne, FL

- Warming could disrupt Atlantic Ocean current

- Researchers unravel the drivers of large iceberg movement

- Sea level rising fastest in 2,800 years

- Gulf of Mexico waters are freakishly warm, which could fuel strong spring storms

- Enormous Caribbean Waves Before 1492

Aviation Meteorology - Ms. Erica Sandschulte, Senior International Operations Coordinator, Rockwell Collins; January 25, 2016 - Houston, TX

- Careers in Meteorology: Job Information for those interested in Meteorology

- 2015 declared warmest year in history

- NSSL People: Career Options for Meteorologists

Understanding Weather Impacts on Wildfires in the US. - Dr. Craig Clements, Assistant Professor, Department of Meteorology, San José State University; September 15 - San Jose, CA & September 17, 2015 - Stanford, CA

- Did Tropical Moisture Contribute to the Valley Fire Rapid Rate of Spread?

- Incident meteorologist: Portland forecaster brings predicting skills to Canyon Creek fire

Geology, Engineering, and Petroleum Industry - Beatrice Parker, Geophysicist, Chevron Corp.; February 12, 2014 - Houston, TX

- U.S. Moves Toward Atlantic Oil Exploration, Stirring Debate Over Sea Life

- The fracking divide: Mexico’s oil frontier beckons U.S. drillers in wake of new law

Mining, Engineering - Stan Suboleski, Evans Energy; October 23, 2012 - Richmond, VA

- Engineering the Future of Coal

- Mine disaster: Hundreds of aftershocks

- Cooled coal emissions would clean air and lower health and climate-change costs

Forces of Weather, Scientific Process - Doug Sisterson, Argonne National Laboratory; October 9, 2012 - Oak Brook, IL

- NOAA and NASA's Next Generation Weather Satellite May Provide Earlier Warnings

- Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmaggedon?

- Scientists Make Progress in Assessing Tornado Seasons

- Rough Terrain Can Channel a Tornado's Damaging Winds, New Research Suggests

- Stratospheric Winds Churn Up the Abyss

- Agricultural Bacteria: Blowing in the Wind

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Exploring the STEM in Forestry - Allen Rabon, Forest Technician, Sandhills State Forest, SC Forestry Commission

- Billions of gallons of water saved by thinning forests

- A Food Forest Grows in Atlanta

- Next-generation optimization of forest data for better forest management

- How to Make Millions While Saving a Forest

- Healthy Demand for Southern Timber Ensures Forested Lands Remain Forested

From Lockhart Elementary to Coral Restoration in Belize - Dr. Maya Trotz, Associate Professor, University of South Florida; February 26, 2018 - Tampa, FL

- Thailand may shut beach after overtourism kills coral reef

- Belize bans oil explorations completely to protect its coral reef

- EPA Cuts Will Destroy South Florida Beaches, Soil, and Rivers, Environmental Group Warns

- Urban Wetlands To Clean Polluted Storm Water

STEM in Teaching & the Indian River Lagoon Research Institute - Robert J. Weaver, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ocean Engineering & Director of IRLRI, Florida Institute of Technology; February 27, 2018 - Melbourne, FL

- A surfer and a scientist teamed up to create the perfect wave

- ‘Brown tide’ algae returns to Indian River Lagoon; groups work toward recovery

- 42 Indian River Lagoon cleanup projects approved

- Reefs made from recycled oyster shells expected to boost marine life along Nature Coast

- Eroding Coasts Need Protection - and New Solutions are at Hand

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration - Jessica Seipp, Water Resources Department Manager, Dewberry; November 13, 2017 - Baltimore, MD

- Rain gardens take root as revitalized community tackles polluted runoff

- Reasons why green infrastructure matters

- Protect the forest patches that protect Baltimore

- VA city’s artificial wetland the real deal in slowing stormwater pollution

- The Best Investment Opportunity Ever: Investing In Nature 101

The Wonderful World of Water - Stephen M. Turner, P.E., Project Manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; October 25, 2017 - Hampton, VA

- Constructed Wetlands: Unlocking Water Treatment Technology At Shell

- Solving disinfection byproducts led to unintended consequences

- Leak-finding robot inspects pipes from the inside- Investing In Nature 101: A Triple Win for Cities, Communities, and Developers

- Study aims to track sources of downtown runoff

Stream Restoration - Integration of Engineering and Science - Kathy Hoverman, P.E., Senior Stream Restoration Designer, KCI Technologies; October 24, 2017 - Richmond, VA

- Key to stream restoration success: location, location, location

- Where Have All the Salmon Gone?

- Two Years After California’s Biggest Dam Removal, Fish Rebound

- Louisiana plans to restore the dying Maurepas Swamp with water diverted from the Mississippi

- How the Massive Model at LSU's Center for River Studies Works

Environmental Engineering and Clemson Engineering Outreach - Dr. Mark Schlautman, Professor, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University; March 15, 2016 - Clemson, SC

- Water Failures Are Putting the World's Health at Risk

- Bluewater donates high-performance water purifiers to Flint, Michigan

- Fighting climate change with 'poop power'

- What 11 Billion People Mean for Sanitation

- Technology could solve longstanding problem of separating gas from water

Environmental Engineering and Education - Steve Hilfiker, President, Environmental Risk Management, Inc; March 2, 2016 - Fort Myers, FL

- The science behind the Flint water crisis: corrosion of pipes, erosion of trust

- Oil Eaters: How Nature Cleans Up the Deepwater Horizon Spill

Climate Change Awareness - Dr. Michael Savarese, Professor of Marine Science, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Marine & Ecological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University; March 11, 2015 - Fort Myers, FL

- Are we tired of talking about climate change?

- 10 Do’s and Don’ts of Discussing Climate Change (pdf)

- What California Can Teach Other States About Climate Change

Water: An Environmental Engineering Perspective - Dr. Heather Shipley, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UT San Antonio; February 26, 2015 - San Antonio, TX

- Student engineers' project expands access to clean water in Kenyan village

- Algae from wastewater solves two problems: Biofuel and clean-up

- Simple method of binding pollutants in water

- Sewage — Yes, Poop — Could Be a Source of Valuable Metals and Critical Elements

- CU-Boulder technology could make treatment and reuse of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper

Membrane Separations in Environmental Engineering - Dr. David Ladner, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University; October 20, 2014 - Clemson, SC

- California Leads Way in Drinking Water Membrane Filtration

- Plasma-treated nano filters help purify world water supply

- Water filter from the sapwood in pine tree branches

- Michigan State University Invention could help pharmaceutical industry save money

- Graphene paints a corrosion-free future

SPACE/ASTRONOMY

The Geosciences and Space Exploration - Carroll Ellis, Jr., Earth & Environmental Science Educator, MathScience Innovation Center; October 17th - Richmond, VA

- Chesterfield County's Cosby High School introduces oysters into classroom

- 50 years in, Henrico's MathScience Innovation Center pushing STEM education

- MathScience Innovation Center brings localities together in learning

- Deep groundwater aquifers respond rapidly to climate variability

- Geologic studies are a big part of upcoming space missions

Planetary Defense - Dr. Nahum Melamed, Project Leader, Launch Vehicle Software Group, The Aerospace Corporation; February 16, 2016 - Los Angeles, CA

- Small Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth March 8

- The Chelyabinsk superbolide's mystery continues three years later

- Giant comets could pose danger to life on Earth

- Fireball seen passing over Southern California is identified as Russian space junk

- Russia Wants to Shoot Asteroids with ICBMS

Shoot for the Stars - Mr. Kelly Smith, Assistant Director, Space Systems Department, Space Science & Engineering Division; January 26, 2016 - San Antonio, TX

- Inside Rosetta's comet

- Spinoff 2016 Highlights Space Technologies Used in Daily Life on Earth

- Space geek teacher remembers Challenger disaster

- A mission worthy of NASA: A human landing on Mars

- NASA's Next Great Space Telescope: The Quest Begins

The Circumgalactic Medium (the stuff around galaxies) - Dr. Molly Peeples, AURA Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute; September 9, 2015 - Baltimore, MD

- Fingerprinting the Circumgalactic Medium

- The Milky Way's Missing Mass: Partially Found

- ''Fossils' of galaxies reveal the formation and evolution of massive galaxies

How We Got to Saturn - Dave Doody, Cassini Realtime Flight Operations Lead, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; January 27, 2015 - Alhambra, CA

- A Day's A Day The World Around — But Shorter On Saturn

- 10 Years at Saturn: Video Relives NASA Probe's Arrival

- Why the Warm Ocean on This Moon of Saturn Could Be Perfect for Life

Solar Effects on HF and Satellite Communications and Power Systems - Dr. John D. Patterson, Senior Principal Engineer, HF DataLink, Information Management Services, Rockwell Collins; November 5, 2014 - College Park, MD

- How we dodged a solar doomsday

- Solar Flares From Sunspot Hamper Pilots, Satellites

- One week, one giant sunspot, six massive solar flares

- Scientists predict solar flares with new computer simulation

- Can We Predict Solar Flares—And Protect Our Satellites?

Searching for Planets Like Earth - Dr. Derek Buzasi, Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Florida Gulf Coast University; March 4, 2014 - Fort Myers Beach, FL

- Exoplanets Soon to Gleam in the Eye of NESSI

- Telescope Apps Help Amateurs Hunt for Exoplanets

- Build (and Destroy) Your Own Solar System with This Awesome Exoplanet Game

Cosmochemistry, Meteorites - Dr. Philipp Heck, Associate Curator and Head of Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, The Field Museum; November 6, 2013 – Chicago, IL

- Early solar system garnet-like mineral named for Livermore cosmochemist

- Cosmochemist May Have Solved Meteorite Mystery

- 2011 Draconid meteor shower deposited a ton of meteoritic material on Earth

Space Exploration, Europa Moon - Dr. William Moore, Geophysics Professor, Hampton University; October 10, 2013 – Hampton, VA

- Researchers Propose New Theory to Explain Seeds of Life in Asteroids

- More Accurate Estimate of Amount of Water On Surface Layer of Mars

- Martian Chemical Complicates Hunt for Life's Clues

- Scientists Discover Cosmic Factory for Making Building Blocks of Life

- Insights Into Evolution of Life On Earth from One of Saturn's Moons

Astrobiology, Habitability of space - Dr. Michael Summers, Astrophysics Professor, Director - School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, George Mason University; October 8, 2013 –Fairfax, VA

- NASA Team Investigates Complex Chemistry at Saturn's Moon Titan

- Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Jupiter's Moon Europa

- Life Possible On Extrasolar Moons

- Earth Expected to Be Habitable for Another 1.75 Billion Years

- Understanding Clouds as a Necessary Ingredient in the Search for Life

- Insights Into Evolution of Life On Earth from One of Saturn's Moons

International Space Station Design and Experiments - Elizabeth Stewart Smith, P.E., 3D CAD Model & 2D Drawling Lead, ISS Program Office, NASA Johnson Space Center; March 18, 2013 – Houston, TX

- Sunite Williams Soars Weightlessly

- Fostering Future Female Engineers

- Engineering Still Needs More Women

NASA Juno Project Science, STEM Careers - Theodore Clarke, NASA/JPL Juno Project Consultant, Physics Professor, Pasadena City College; February 27, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA

- Most Earthlike planets yet seen bring Kepler closer to its holy grail

- Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn

- Kepler Spies Smallest Alien Worlds Yet

Below you will find news related to the topics presented at Bite of Science in the areas of Aeronautical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Industrial, and Mechanical Engineering

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AERONAUTICAL

Avionics and Modeling the Real World - Daniel Clark, Sr. Director of Engineering & William Greenleaf, Engineering Fellow, Rockwell Collins; March 28, 2017 - Melbourne, FL

- Top 10 advancements shaping the future of aviation

- DARPA advances on many fronts to reduce reliance on GNSS

- FAA shows off new air-traffic communications at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport

- A&M prof leads team of researchers to investigate Germanwings plane crash

Teaching STEM is Rocket Science - Zach Greenberg, Space Systems Engineering, Orbital ATK Inc; October 7, 2015 - Arlington, VA

- Students learn life lessons from launch failures

- One year after Antares failure, Orbital ATK nears return to flight

STEM in Avionics - Robert Sheffield, Electrical Engineer, Rockwell Collins; September 29, 2015 - Melbourne, FL

- How Engineers Can Improve Technical Writing

- Millennials require soft skills training

Boeing Engineering San Antonio - Jason Garza, Product/Liaison Engineer, Boeing Company; February 26, 2015 - San Antonio, TX

- Boeing to keep Air Force One contract

- Boeing reduces lead time and saves money by 3d printing aircraft parts

Boeing and Space Exploration - Dr. Ian Fialho, Technical Fellow, Boeing Company; February 25, 2015 - Houston, TX

- NASA's Next Space Race: SpaceX vs. Boeing

- Rockets for Commercial Crew Lauches Begin to Come Together

- NASA, Boeing, SpaceX Outline Objectives to Station Flights

Composite Aircraft: How to Make Airplanes Out of Cloth - Tim Nuhfer, Aerospace Structures Engineer, Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, October 8, 2014 - Fairfax, VA

- Shape-Shifting Carbon Composites Could Save Fuel

- Carbon fibre planes: Lighter and stronger by design

- MIT’s carbon fiber ‘Lego bricks’ can be fashioned into airplanes, rockets, bridges

- GE Tests Flight Theory

CHEMICAL

Confectionery Engineering at The Hershey Company - Lou Felice, P.E., Director, North American Continuous Improvement, The Hershey Company; October 4, 2018 - Harrisburg, PA

- Candymaker Mars wants to protect chocolate supply chain from climate change

- Nearly everything we think we know about chocolate chips is a lie

- Hershey's and Reese's collaborate on new candy

- Hershey's plan to keep impulse candy shopping alive

The Making of Deli Style Cooked Products - Alan Shelton, Senior Food Scientist, Cargill; September 11, 2018 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Inventing a Longer-Lasting Popsicle

- The Scientific Quest for the Perfect S’more

- A Major Victory for the Impossible Burger, The Veggie 'Meat' That Bleeds

- An Illustrated Guide to Matching Foods' Flavor Molecules

- The food science behind creating a meatless jerky

Environmental Engineering and Regulatory Compliance - David Hine, Environmental Engineer/Senior Chemical Engineer, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance, FUJIFILM Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.

- HAPS and VOCs and Oxidation Control for Pollution Systems

- California to Help Farmers Buy Cleaner Heavy Equipment

- Particles, man: New research quantifies life-shortening effects of ubiquitous air pollutant

- Dirty air can harm your brain and stress the body

B. Braun Medical Device Manufacturing - Nate Snyder, Machinist Apprentice & Dan Dietrich, Extrusion Manager, B Braun; September 28, 2017 - Allentown, PA

- Living proof: Moldmaking brings innovation to medical manufacture

- Shaping the future of micro molding

- Plastic is fantastic but we don’t want it in our water

- Global healthcare trends: The good, the bad and the sedentary

Engineering: Design and Build - Nancy Pon, Manager of Engineering, and Anna Solis, Project Director, Chemical Engineer, Fluor Corporation; February 22, 2017 - Long Beach, CA

- L.A. Metro receives P3 proposal to accelerate BRT to LRT conversion

- Fluor Named to FORTUNE Magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies List

- SunCoke Energy Awards Maintenance and Capital Projects Contract to Fluor

- Australia Gas Firms Locked in Legal Battles After $200 Billion Spree Sours

- Why Fluor Corporation Stock Got Floored Today

Engineering a Passion - Dr. Nadine Lippa, Senior Engineer, Gentex Corporation; November 2, 2016 - Scranton, PA

- Award-Winning Student Sara Kouroupis Encourages Girls to Follow STEM Passions

- Secret Lives of Engineers: Meet Michael Pincus, Electrical Engineer and Professional Cyclist

- CEE alumnus pursues gold-medal career

- Sports engineering: The physics of sport

- Unveiling the V.R Cycling Simulator: BTS at Yesterday’s TV shoot

Precious Metal Services, Seneca Facility - Lisa Forrester, Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager, & Tina Tarcson, Site Development Leader, BASF; March 15, 2016 - Easley, SC

- Catalytic Converter Recycling Is Still Big Business

- Global Auto Sales Help to Drive Demand for Palladium

- CaO makes the graphene hierarchy for high-power lithium-sulfur batteries

- 850 Tons of Treated Fukushima Water Dumped Into the Pacific

- Optimize your optimizing

CIVIL

Civil and Geotechnical Engineering at Engineering Consulting Services - Allan Parker, P.E., Branch Manager & Vice President, ECS Limited; November 8, 2018 - Fredericksburg, VA

- New research modernizes rammed earth construction

- World's longest bridge ready to operate

- Building on stronger grounds with geotechnical engineering

- How Fabric Buildings Can Provide Flexibility for Industrial Building Challenges

Civil Engineering in Public Works Projects - Patrick Dobbins, Senior Director, Harris & Associates; October 23, 2018 - Monterey Bay, CA

- 500-year-old Leaning Tower of Pisa mystery unveiled by engineers

- Searching for new bridge forms that can span further

- Engineered sand zaps storm water pollutants

- As Infrastructure Crumbles, So Does US Manufacturing

- Creating Climate-Ready Infrastructure

Civil Engineering in the Power Generation and Power Transmition Industry - Phillip Harter, P.E., Principle Structural Engineer, WorleyParsons; October 2, 2018 - Reading, PA

- Georgia Power generation facilities prepared for Hurricane Michael

- Worley Parsons awarded contract for Hydrocracking Complex in Egypt

- Advantage Lithium achieves key milestone with filing of Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) report and confirms Cauchari project development on track

- WorleyParsons: the new energy revolution

Engineering Consulting Services, Geotechnical Engineering - Sara Beth Phillips, Geotechnical Engineer, Engineering Consulting Services; September 26, 2018 - Norfolk, VA

- A 58-story skyscraper in San Francisco is tilting and sinking

- The Science Behind Florida’s Sinkhole Epidemic

- Human-made earthquake risk reduced if fracking is 895m from faults

Transportation! The Reality - Carlos G. Garcia, P.E., Director of Transportation, Bowman Consulting; September 25, 2018 - Richmond, VA

- NYC designs the future of safer intersections for cyclists

- Public Transit – Still a Huge Component of America’s Transportation Infrastructure

- Tailgating doesn't get you there faster: Study

- Engineers dive into big data to develop better system to manage traffic incidents

- Innovative traffic interchanges help drivers avoid crashes, save lives

Technology Impact in Construction - Jaime English, Preconstruction Manager, Branch and Associates; September 12, 2018 - Rocky Mount, VA

- How technology is transforming construction

- Technology brings cost and time savings to the construction industry

- Labor Solutions Hide in Plain Sight

- Robotics at work sites? Emerging technology revolutionizing traditional construction industry

The STEM in Traffic Engineering - Emily Swearingen, P.E., Associate Vice President, SC Transportation Leader, AECOM

- Study highlights rising pedestrian deaths, points toward solutions

- The magic of road building

- For the two-wheelers

- Across the mighty river

- A traffic nightmare

Valley Engineering and Importance of STEM - Daniel Michael, Civil Engineer & Founder, Valley Engineering; September 11, 2017 - Harrisonburg, VA

- ASCE Salary Survey Results Reveal a Civil Engineering Industry In Demand

- Toward 20-Story Earthquake-Safe Buildings Made From Wood

- Team Repairs Bridge Fracture, Solves Mystery

- Hyperloop's Super High Speed UK Vision

Engineering and the Future of Transportation - Randell Prescott, P.E., Florida Construction Engineering and Inspection Practice Leader, KCI Technologies; March 30, 2017 - Tampa, FL

- Hard Questions on Our Transition to Driverless Cars

- Most Honda owners turn off lane departure warning

- A Slow Ride Toward the Future of Public Transportation

- The Unbelievable Reality of the Impossible Hyperloop

- Bike lane mixes glowing paint and cool design for safety, Texas researchers say

The Art of the Possible - Michelle Dennison, RN Systems Engineering and Integration Risk Engineer, Booz Allen; February 23, 2017 - Los Angeles, CA

- Hidden Figures No More: African American Women in Space Exploration

- Goldfein Bids To Make Air Force Lead For All DoD Space

- U.S. Department of Transportation Awards Booz Allen Hamilton a Spot on $202 Million Contract to Support Work on Intelligent Transportation Systems

- Risk Management in the Oil and Gas Industry

Engineering as Word Problems - Dan J. Hotek, P.E., President/Structural Engineer, Engineering Techniques, Inc.; February 16, 2017 - Middletown, VA

- Thule welcomes new antenna to the family

- A new resource-efficient way to construct a concrete dome has been developed

- The Structural Awards 2016: Taking Structural Engineering to new heights

- Designing a better built environment

- Building Resiliency

HDR: Traffic Engineering and Supporting STEM - Rashed T. Islam, P.E., Professional Traffic Operations Engineer, Vice President & Managing Principal, HDR Engineering, Inc.; January 24, 2017 - Austin, TX

- What traffic engineers are learning about Metro’s SafeTrack

- Five HDR Projects Honored at ACEC Gala

- PTV upgrades its Visum, Vissim and Viswalk traffic modeling and simulation software

- Innovative traffic interchanges help drivers avoid crashes, save lives

- Milwaukee Biz Blog: Wisconsin has chance to get into race with autonomous vehicles

Civil Engineering: Keeping up With the Future - Clayton Van Ekeren, Civil Engineer, Transportation Department, Burns & McDonnell; January 23, 2017 - Dallas, TX

- Oroville Dam Crisis Shows Why We Must Invest In Infrastructure

- Infrastructure Repairs: It Takes a Country

- Senate EPW Committee Examines How to Modernize America’s Infrastructure

- What’s Science Got to Do With Teaching and Learning?

- Texting and Driving Isn’t a Millennial Problem. It’s an Engineering Problem

Civil Engineers Build Infrastructure - Eric Martz, P.E., Regional Practice Leader, Transportation Structures, Senior Associate / Harrisburg Office Manager, KCI Technologies, Inc.; November 1, 2016 - Harrisburg, PA

- Bridge expert awarded civil engineering Oscar - 07 October 2016

- Five Traits to Look for When Hiring Engineers

- Gannett Fleming bridge projects receive industry awards

- The Quiet Work of a Civil Engineer

- How IMAX helps engineers ‘Dream Big’

Bridge Engineering - Maria Trejo, Bridge Engineer in Training, HDR, Inc.; October 18th, 2016 - Norfolk, VA

- A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

- Arlington Memorial Bridge rehabilitation moves forward

- Unbonded Pretensioned Columns for Accelerated Bridge Construction in Seismic Regions

- Students with interest in bridge engineering receive scholarships

Valley Engineering and Importance of STEM - Daniel Michael, Civil Engineer & Founder, Valley Engineering; October 12th, 2016 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Civil engineering society issues first-ever tsunami-safe building standards

- Safety codes can lead to over-built bridges, higher building costs

- With new model, buildings may “sense” internal damage

- Elevating Infrastructure | Making the case

- Professor: Civil Engineering is About Way More Than Just Building Roads

Civil Engineering with Alliance Consulting - Kyle M. Clampitt, PE, Senior Project Manager, Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc.; September 14, 2016 - Columba, SC

- Featured Science: Katerina Aifantis ditches the traditional approach to engineering

- Fostering education and inspiration through engineering global programs

- More details emerge on Nephron Pharmaceuticals HQ move

- Can All Students Succeed at Science and Tech High Schools?

- UCD’s Bodega Lab is a ‘marine powerhouse’

What Does it Take to be an ITAC Engineer? - D. Jon Loftis, President, Industrial TurnAround Corporation; May 5, 2016 Chester, VA

- Six Students Win $1000 Scholarships at HPG Chamber-sponsored Manufacturing Technology Camp

- Support power engineers of the future, today

- Making a Detailed Point Cloud Without Spending All Day on It

Nuclear Engineering - Naomi Marshall, Nuclear Engineering, Westinghouse Electric Company; March 16, 2016; Columbia, SC

- Only Renewable Energy Revolution Can Reverse Runaway Climate Change

- What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor

- How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming

- Why Nuclear Fusion Is Always 30 Years Away

- The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

The Evolution of an Environmental Engineer - Hope Hagar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University; January 28, 2016 - Dallas, TX

- As Flint Fought to Be Heard, Virginia Tech Team Sounded Alarm

- Researchers seek to understand the subsurface on a massive scale

- Removal of lead ions using hydroxyapatite nano-material prepared from phosphogypsum waste

COMPUTER

Game Changineer: Learning Logic and Language Through Video Game Design - Dr. Michael Hsiao, Professor, Virginia Tech; September 12, 2017 - Roanoke, VA

- Computer programming languages can impact science and thought

- The case for computers, creativity and natural language generation

- Talent Shortage Rooted in Education, Say Tech Industry Experts

- MIT Paper Sheds Light on How Neural Networks Think

Applications Engineering - Alfredo Perez, Applications Engineer, Silicon Laboratories; January 27, 2016 - Austin, TX

- Connecting Forklifts to the Industrial Internet of Things

- 5 Ways the Internet of Things Impacts Your Daily Life

- Will LiFi Take Big Data And The Internet Of Things To A New Level?

- What Bluetooth Will Be Able to Do in the Near Future

- The Future of Plant and Garden Care on Display at CES 2015

Qualcomm, Thinkabit, and STEM Programming for Students - Susie Armstrong, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm; February 18, 2016 - San Diego, CA

- A Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month

- Qcamp sprouts future female engineers [VIDEO]

- 8th graders learn about computer programming by making sandwiches

Memory Chip Engineering - Mike Frachel, Process Engineer, Micron Technology; September 18, 2012 - Manassas, Virginia

- Transparent, flexible '3-D' memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices

- Organic ferroelectric molecule shows promise for memory chips, sensors

- Layered '2-D Nanocrystals' Promising New Semiconductor

- Computer Scientists Develop Video Game That Teaches How to Program in Java

ELECTRICAL

ABB Electrification Products and Engineering - Nolan Mikell, Applications Engineer, Electrification Products Medium Voltage Service, ABB, Inc.; April 23, 2018 - Florence, SC

- Transistors that can switch between two stable energy states

- ABB to Deploy Ultra Fast, Terra High Power EV Charger

- Redeployable solar system could replace diesel generators

- Why Mega Solar Projects Are Turning to String Inverters

- Device makes power conversion more efficient

Controls Engineering - Kim Concillado, Controls Engineer, Wynright Corporation; March 29, 2018 - Dallas, TX

- Seeing the world through a robot’s eyes

- Thermal imaging brings robotic systems closer to telling the difference between humans and other objects

- Real-World Applications of Advanced Process Controls

- Building the future of energy storage

- AI solutions for human problems

Dominion Energy Solar Power Projects - Jeffery Sampson, General Construction Project Manager, Dominion Energy Group; March 21, 2018 - Petersburg, VA

- Three reasons why solar designs fall short

- The future of solar energy

- This Florida City Is 100% Solar-Powered

- Researchers figured out how to generate power from falling raindrops

- Re-Thinking Concentrating Solar Power With Thermal Energy Storage

Control and Automation using Arduino Kits - Kurt Klingenberg, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Cadence, Inc.; November 11, 2015 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Peering under your skin: the future of surgical robotics is virtual

- Arduino Blog News

- All About Circuits - Latest News

Dominion’s Utility‐Scale Solar Program - Todd Flowers, R Business Development Manager, Power Generation Business Development, Dominion; October 21, 2015 - Richmond, VA

- Dominion acquires Accomack solar power project

- An off-grid solar power system - providing reliable continuous power to industries

- Solar Energy 101 - How We Make Solar Panels

- Solar photovoltaic output depends on orientation, tilt, and tracking

- Stevens Wins Solar Decathlon 2015

3D Printing and Electronic Kits for the Classroom - Dr. Eric Bubar, Assistant Professor of Physical Sciences, Marymount University; October 7, 2015 - Arlington, VA

- Engineers Create a Titanium Rib Cage Worthy of Wolverine

- This Professor Is Making Arteries With an Off-the-Shelf 3D Printer

- How 3D Printing Could Blow Up the Luxury Dining Model

- Electroloom, 3D Printing, & the Dawn of a New Age of Clothing

- This new device recycles plastic bottles into 3D-printing material

Engineering and Science Can Be/Is Exciting and Fun..Really - Quadre' Washington, Network Engineering Manager, Verizon Communications, Septemnber 9, 2015 - Baltimore, MD

- Hands Off The Wheel

- This is the thinnest TV ever

- Engineering in the New Industrial Revolution

- Teen’s Silk-Powered Ebola Test Wins Google Science Fair

Engineering and Semiconductors - Mark Castruita, Principal Design Engineer, Broadcom Corporation; January 27, 2015 - Alhambra, CA

- What Will Electronics Be Made Of? Silk and Snails and the Eggs of Quails

- 3-D Transistors Made with Molecular Self-Assembly

- Atom-Thick Silicon Makes Crazy-Fast Transistors

- Germanium comes home to Purdue for semiconductor milestone

INDUSTRIAL

Sharing the Power of STEM: Industrial Engineering - Michele Stuart, President, Efficiency Engineers; October 3, 2018 - Lehigh Valley, PA

- Couple uses system engineering, hard work to create unique business at Ditchley

- Patient safety should be hospitals' focus, health experts say

- Faculty awarded funding for high-risk, high-reward research

- University of Minnesota awarded federal grant to research autonomous vehicles

- Japanese startup ispace is tapping Apollo-era expertise to build lunar landers for NASA

20 years of Engineering - Jennifer Bell, Mechanical Engineer, Sustainability Analyst, Elements Offshore; January 26, 2017 - Houston, TX

- High school students trade classroom for engineering labs

- Seattle lab aims to speed development of clean-energy tech

- High school students visit mechanical engineering lab on campus

- Engineers Week 2017 Begins in Just Over a Week

- Recent ASME Congressional Briefing Examines Robotics and Manufacturing

Industrial Engineering and 3D Printing in K-12 - Dr. Justin Yates, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Francis Marion University; March 17, 2016 - Florence, SC

- How industrial engineers improve healthcare

- Continuing Progress in Continuous Manufacturing

- High school athletics: Bradley-Bourbonnais using new technology to monitor injuries

- Advantages of 3D printing over traditional manufacturing

- New 3D printed hydrogel could be cancer treatment of the future

Engineering, Using models - Dr. Barrett Caldwell, Department of Engineering, Purdue University; September 26, 2012 - West Lafayette, Indiana

- Got Engineers, America? Have Your Kids Study Lego Bricks in School!

- Biophysicists model the behavior of a protein critical to cell motion

Industrial Engineering, Problem solving - Heather Nacke, Industrial Engineer, Chrysler Kokomo Transmission Plant; September 25, 2012 - Logansport, Indiana

- Engineering Students, Start Your Engines!

- Powertrains Drive the Future of Engineering Design

- Designing Better and Safer Trucks

- Ants’ behavior leads to Wayne State University researcher’s method for optimizing product development time, costs

MECHANICAL

Honda Research: Human Factors and Product Creation - Anthony Alequin & Justin Singuinan, Research and Development Engineers, Honda Research & Development Americas, Inc.; January 25, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA

- Love your Nissan? Thank Larry the human engineer

- The crucial role of human factors in the future of technology

- Don't leave baby boomers behind when designing wearable technology

- A deep flaw in your car lets hackers shut down safety features

Quartus Engineering Projects - Christopher Lai & Tim Christianson, Project Engineers, Quartus Engineering Inc.; January 22, 2018 - San Diego, CA

- LiDAR reveals Mayan mega city hidden in Guatemalan jungle

- Developing 3D-Printed Glass Optics and Microfluidics

- Harris offers Geiger-mode lidar for accurate elevation data

- The Astounding Engineering Behind the World's Largest Optical Telescope

Mechanical Engineering, Building HVAC & R Systems - Patrick Castelvecchi, Mechanical Section Manager, Burns & McDonnell; September 12, 2017 - Roanoke, VA

- Winds Of Change

- Washington named first LEED Platinum city

- Engineering the world’s grandest architectural projects

- St. Louis foodbank improves efficiencies with new controls system

- Preventive Maintenance Helps Raise The Bar

Math and Science Behind Kaydon Bearings - Gregory Carr, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Kaydon Bearings; March 17, 2016 - Florence, SC

- Types of Bearings and What to Use Them For

- Bearings in Space: Curiosity Rover’s Mission to Mars

- What to wear?

- Greaseless ball bearings: A revolutionary spin on a design that's been around for ages

- Finally, an Alternative to Costly Slewing Rings!

My Career in Failure Analysis Consulting - Dr. Amy E. Richards, Senior Staff Consultant, Engineering Systems, Inc.; January 28, 2016 - Dallas, TX

- U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board: West Fertilizer Explosion and Fire

- Investigative Report Concerning Football Used During the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 18, 2015

- Challenger disaster: Cold conditions likely played pivotal role in failed launch 30 years ago

- Taiwan earthquake: Destruction a grim reminder of dangers for California, experts say

International Paper - Who We Are - Steve Mindt, Plant General Manager, International Paper; September 16, 2015 - Gilroy, CA

- Paper industry has changed, but jobs still available

- Engineers play major role with Wauna: Clatsop County’s largest employer on the hunt for top talent

The Magic of Engineering - Lindsay Mullen, P.E., Project Manager & Engineer, WDW Water Sciences,  with Alan Skaggs, P.E., Senior Mechanical Engineer, WDW Design & Engineering, Walt Disney Company ; March 12th 2015 - Orlando, FL

- RPI, Walt Disney Imagineering announce cognitive computing collaboration

- Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband

- Disney Creates Beach-Dwelling Robot that Draws Adorable Cartoons in the Sand

Continental Tire Sumter Plant, How to Make a Tire - Tracy Harrington, Product Industrialization Manager, Continental Tire Sumter Plant; October 23, 2014 - Sumter, SC

- Bridgestone develops airless tire

- Tire tech keeps eye on distance and pressure

- Hankook's new airless tire concept

- Michelin debuts tire with evolving grip technology

Engineering for Ship Building - Mike Wallace, Manager Test Engineering, Newport News Shipbuilding; October 10^th – Hampton, VA

- NASA's Orion Lands Safely On Two of Three Parachutes in Test

- Acoustic Waves Warn of Tsunami

- A Microphone That Listens With Light

- ME Today Newsletter – For early career engineers

- MIT Engineering News

Engineering Professions, Offshore oil rig construction - Jillian Duquesnay, P.E., Sr. Naval Engineer, McDermott International; March 18, 2013 – Houston, TX

- Society of Petroleum Engineers News

- Petroleum engineering degrees seen going from boom to bust

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TECHNOLOGY

Raytheon Global Training Solutions - Julie A. Kent, Senior Systems Engineer, Raytheon; February 28, 2018 - Orlando, FL

- Raytheon Offers US Army Lowest-Risk, Next-Gen Training

- Raytheon to enhance FAA's air traffic control system to improve safety and efficiency

- Why Cybersecurity Is About More Than Prevention-Focused Products

- 6 Ways To Make Smart Cities Future-Proof Cybersecurity Cities

IoEnergy: The Internet of Efficiency - Danny Krueger, CEO, IoEnergy, Inc.; October 12, 2017 - Moss Landing, CA

- 4 BIG ways the IoT is impacting design and construction

- The next IT jobs boom? The internet of things

- Growing Influence of Internet of Things

- How Will the Internet of Things Impact Education?

- What does it actually mean for buildings to go smart?

20 Years of Verizon Communication Advancements - William T. Lee, III, Manager, Network Engineering and Operations, Verizon Communications; March 16, 2017 - Manassas, VA

- When smartphones go to school: Work and grades tend to suffer when there is off-task use in the classroom

- Why Shares of Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint Have Jumped Since the Election

- Infrared light could someday deliver super-fast WiFi

- Cosemi Debuts 8K-Ready, DisplayPort 1.4 Active Optical Cables

Technology and Coding Opens Doors - Curtis Jordan, Lead Security Engineer, TruSTAR Technology; October 20, 2016 - Arlington, VA

- 10 highest-paying IT security jobs

- $300M Trial Begins Over Intuitive’s Allegedly Defective Robotic Surgical System

- Hackers launch 'invisible' memory-based malware attacks on 140 organizations across 40 countries

Cybersecurity - Owen Redwood, Cyber Security Expert, Codecraft Lab Cyber Team; March 1, 2016 - Melbourne, FL

- What Hope Is There For Cybersecurity If The Government Can't Protect Its Own Secrets?

- Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid

- Apple's not alone: Twitter, Facebook, Google join encryption fight

- Why Convenience Is the Enemy of Security

Telos Corporation & Cybersecurity - Richard Robinson, Director of Innovation and Chief Technology Officer, Telos Corporation; February 10, 2016 - Front Royal, VA

- The Enemy Within

- Road to autonomous, connected cars is filled with risks

- Genetics inspire cyber-security research

- Telos in Action: Visitor management solution enhances security at FedExField, Redskins Park

How the Internet Works - David Krauss, Packet Network Architect, Ciena Corporation; December 3, 2015 - Baltimore, MD

- U.S. Appeals Court Hears Challenge to FCC's Net Neutrality Rules

- Technology in the Classroom: Don't Believe the Hype

- America's Broadband Embarrassment: We Are 19th to 55th in the World in Wired & Wireless Broadband Speed Rankings

Basic Email and Web Security - Dan Hegglin, Security Officer, Cisco Systems; September 15, 2015 - San Jose, CA

  -  Cyber Statement 9.23
  -  Security awareness and spear phishing: How to stay out of danger
  -  What You Need to Know About 'Drive-By' Cyber Attacks

  -  Your identity is sold for $1 in the Dark Web
  -  An Unprecedented Look at Stuxnet, the World’s First Digital Weapon

Robotic Surgery Simulation - Alyssa Tanaka, Research Scientist, Florida Hospital Nicholson Center; March 12th 2015 - Orlando, FL

  -  Google Takes on the Challenge of Making Robot Surgery Safer
  -  Robotic surgery can now treat previously inoperable tumors

  -  Is da Vinci Robotic Surgery a Revolution or a Ripoff?

Metrology and 3D Modeling - Brad Medlin, Metrologist and 3D Modeler, Oconee Nuclear Station, Duke Energy Corporation; October 20, 2014 - Clemson, SC

- Seeing Your True Colors: Standards for Hyperspectral Imaging

- New tool for exploring cells in 3D created

​Augmented Reality, Innovation in Business - Patrick Ryan, Manager Engineering, Augmented Reality, Newport News Shipbuilding, October 2, 2014 - Norfolk, VA

- Augmented Reality and Advertising: The Future is Closer Than You Think – Fortune Magazine

- Augmented Reality News, from Mashable

- Augmented Reality News, from The Guardian

STEM INSIGHTS

Training Students for the Data Economy - Mark Moyou, Ph.D., Alstom; February 27, 2018 - Melbourne, FL

- The New New Deal

- The Rise Of IoT Data Exchanges

- Deep learning applications in railroads: Predicting carloads

- Data is giving rise to a new economy

- How to Prepare the Next Generation for Jobs in the AI Economy

Jabil Engineered Solutions Group - April Butterfield, Vice President of Engineering, Jabil; February 26, 2018 - Tampa, FL

- Thought the internet was life-changing? Here comes the Internet of Things

- IoT, connectivity & data analytics are transforming manufacturing

- 7 transportation IoT predictions from Cisco

- MIT creates energy-efficient chips for Internet of Things device encryption

US Patent and Trademark Office - What are Patents and Trademarks? - John Cabeca, Director, Silicon Valley United States Patent and Trademark Office; September 29, 2016 - Fremont, CA

- USPTO Announces Patents for Humanity Winners

- TapImmune Expands Intellectual Property On PolyStart Platform For Use In Next-Generation T-Cell Vaccines

- Getting patents and economic data to speak to each other: An 'Algorithmic Links with Probabilities' approach for joint analyses of patenting and economic activities

A Taste of Engineering - Dr. Kyle G. Gipson, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, College of Integrated Science & Engineering, James Madison University; November 11, 2015 - Harrisonburg, VA

- Developing the Next Generation of Engineers

- As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work

Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers - Tom Wells, Senior Engineering Manager, Government Communication Systems, Harris Corporation; March 3, 2014 - Melbourne, FL

- K12 Videos: Students Making Science Exciting

- Improving Student Interest in Engineering Curricula – Exciting Students about their Classes

Innovation, Creativity, Inventions, Patents - Maria Thompson, Director, Innovation Strategy, Motorola Solutions, Inc.; November 5, 2013– Chicago, IL

- Official Gazette for Patents from US Patent Office

- Patent and Trademark News from NY Times

- Innovation and Design News from Business Week

- Innovation News from CNN

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Advanced Manufacturing Technology - Maurice Salazar, Skilled Group Leader, TOYOTA Motor Manufacturing Texas, Inc.; March 27, 2018 - San Antonio, TX

- Focus on Advanced Manufacturing

- How 3-D printing is helping to transform Formula One racing

- How Manufacturing Automation Is Evolving

- Skills Gap A Major Barrier To Expanded Use Of Additive Manufacturing

- Ripple effects from ‘deep learning,’ AVs to be felt far and wide

Bringing Science to Life - Dr. Michelle Waddell, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hampton University; October 25, 2017 - Hampton, VA

- New ‘SMART’ system holds potential to accelerate molecular structure identification process

- A New Class: Protein-Protein Interactions As Drug Targets

- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Reveals New Drug Compounds

- Interdisciplinarity: a new era for scientific practice?

- Nobel Prize Winning Technology Demonstrates Merits of Interdisciplinary Collaboration, says Cornell Professor

Science Communication: Opportunities for learning from the review process - Dr. Ana Almeida, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biologuy, California State University East Bay; October 10, 2017 - Hayward, CA

- Why people believe in conspiracy theories – and how to change their minds

- Americans are dinosaur illiterate — and that’s bad for science

- Science News: Magazine of the Society for Science & the Public

- Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us

- Want to be a Good Science Communicator? You Have to Build Bridges

Project Based Learning, Real World Applications - Will Soyars, Associate Director SoVA CME & Kevin Chrystie, Associate Director R&D CAMEE, Southern Virginia Higher Education Center; September 13, 2017 - Danville, VA

- Making Learning Come to Life

- PBL and STEAM Education: A Natural Fit

- New Study Shows the Impact of PBL on Student Achievement

- Turning the Community Into a Classroom

- The Search for Real-World STEM Problems

What Makes it Work? Motivating Students to Think About STEM - Thomas F. Tainer, Technology Executive, TMEIC Corporation; February 15, 2017 - Roanoke, VA

- Electric Power Grid Reliability in a New Era of Energy Development

- Basic Electricity/Electronics

- Special report: Automation puts jobs in peril

- TMEIC to Supply Drive and Automation Solutions for World's Largest Automated-Stacking Cranes Project at The Port of Virginia

- TMEIC China to Exhibit at SNEC PV Power Expo 2017

STEM Challenges - Dr. Michael Chorney, Professor of Biology and Chair, Biology and Science Program, Penn State Harrisburg & Rachel Baliira, General Biology Degree Candidate Biology and Science Program, Penn State Harrisburg; November 1, 2016 - Harrisburg, PA

- Students weigh the impact of changed MCAT format

- Minority Association for Pre-Medical Students creates future leaders in medicine

- The Next Generation of STEM: Students at the Cutting Edge of Innovation

- Illinois Students Experience STEM Opportunities, Challenges Firsthand with Baxter Mentors

- Senior Iowis Zhu, Double Degree Candidate in Biochemistry and Biological Sciences, Named University Medalist

Software Engineering and Northrop Grumman STEM Outreach Programs - Krystle Waller Gorham, Systems Engineering Associate & Kathy Palmer, Software Engineering Manager, Northrop Grumman; March 3, 2016 - Orlando, FL

- The future is now: 5/11 convoy training goes virtual

- Our Nation Needs to Fix the Breach in the STEM Pipeline

- The Biggest Hole in STEM Pipeline Starts Before Kindergarten

- The Next Generation of STEM: Students at the Cutting Edge of Innovation