Students in Focus
- The autonomous dog has new tricks, thanks to a student engineering team. The goal is to create a robotic companion dog that can improve the quality of life for elderly people with cognitive impairment.
- JT Abate, a junior mechanical engineering student, is in South Korea forerunning the downhill, super-G and super combined for both men's and women's events.
- This semester, sophomore Makenna Sturgeon is working as a legislative aide for Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Rep. Bob Rankin. On top of the experience she's gaining, she also gets to work on another goal: helping people.
- When Nora Barpal saw the many music career possibilities available to her at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, confused about how to proceed, she turned to the Entrepreneurship Center for Music to help her chart a new path.
- Humans have already been to the moon, but two engineering undergraduates have their eyes set on helping humans explore the entire solar system with the aid of robotic partners.
- People with vision impairments face a perpetual problem: maneuvering through a world of obstacles and hazards. Meet Good Vibrations, a team of students with a solution.
- Funded by a National Science Foundation fellowship in human-computer interaction, PhD student Layne Jackson Hubbard has designed playful prototypes to support young children in expressing their ideas.
- Prompted by an eighth grade robotics project, engineering undergraduate student Peter "Max" Armstrong has been working ever since to create an affordable socket for prosthetic limbs.
- While watching the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse in Jackson, Wyoming, graduate student Viliam Klein filmed the event using a 360-degree camera packed on a high-altitude balloon.
- Senior Cat Archer took her time choosing activities to get involved in, which kept her from feeling overwhelmed during her freshman year.