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Fellow Focus with Katie Ioffe '26 Meet our CAH student fellow! Majors: Communication and Computer Science Learn more about Katie and her project, “Beyond the Interface: An Ongoing Exploration of Design and Interaction” by reading her profile in the link below: https://lnkd.in/g2EBSAq5

🧠 Did you know that early childhood tinkering, making and engineering foster future STEM success? By encouraging children to explore, experiment and create, educators help kids see themselves as capable engineers, scientists and problem-solvers. Read more about this in National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)'s 'Small Hands, Big Ideas' at https://lnkd.in/gDG8_9be.

Tomorrow is the Broader Impacts Fair, your opportunity to meet representatives from over 20 organizations (including DSI) who will describe how students, faculty, and postdocs can get involved in opportunities to use mathematics, engineering, and the natural and social sciences to have a broad impact on society https://lnkd.in/g6VBcnVk

Ideal for your summer vacation! In our two newest articles, Nikolai Kriukov from the UvA Faculty of Science, wrote about Kuratowski’s theorem. This is a very important and beautiful result from graph theory, giving a complete description of when a graph is planar! Follow Maya on her trip to Rotterdam and how she discovers various ideas behind this theorem! Have a look at part 1 of the story. https://lnkd.in/dAmUjhmz

Good things were happening at NREL this past summer. First, the dream of two old friends researching the mysteries of photosynthesis in the same lab finally occurred after 30 years. Second, a student from Alabama State University (ASU), a historically black college and university (HBCU), became the first ASU student to intern at a DOE national laboratory. What do these two things have in common? Both happened because of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Science Visiting Faculty Program. Learn more about this innovative program, the lives it impacted at ASU and NREL, and the clean energy research it improved, https://bit.ly/3XtM1oU

🚀 Hi Physics teachers! Ready to kickstart the school year with some fresh inspiration? 🌟 Check out our latest blog post "Boost Student Engagement in Physics with These 20+ Ready-to-use Digital Lesson Activities!" 🧑🏫 This collection includes everything you need to make physics fun and interactive, from virtual science labs to tools for practicing the fundamentals, plus both formative and summative assessment tools. 🔬✨ Check out the blog post here: https://bit.ly/3yMHt4Q

Annual Markov Chains Photo! 😊 Markov chains concluded last week with the in-class game of Chutes & Ladders (also known as Snakes & Ladders), where students collaborate (in teams) and compete (against other teams) to mathematically model this classic board game using Markovian analysis. The game is inspired by Thomas Sharkey’s lecture videos. On to the next chapter of ISE 540:338 (Probabilistic Models in Operations Research) at Rutgers University Industrial and Systems Engineering! 🚀

I will present our resent research on Debugging and Interpretability in Federated Learning Systems. The code is available in Flower.ai 1. FedDebug https://lnkd.in/e99Um-2m 2. FedDefender https://lnkd.in/eFJXzjZp 3. TraceFL https://lnkd.in/eABPwat5

So many aspects of our world — almost all the things we do, touch and know — come from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). STEM helps us understand the world and gives us the tools and inventions to improve our lives. How do things work? What’s involved? It’s fascinating to break it down and understand how everyday activities link to STEM, encouraging everyone to see the relevance of science and engineering in their everyday lives. Discover how our faculty are creating innovative opportunities to increase students’ interest and knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the latest edition of the University of Wyoming's College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Foresight Magazine at https://lnkd.in/guD9hHUe.

Today is International Left Handers Day! As we approach the start of a new school year, let's make sure that our learning spaces are welcoming and accessible to our left-handed students. Do your classrooms have left-handed desks in them? Are they distributed evenly throughout the room? Are your lab stations set up so that the experiments can be performed with equal ease by either left-handed or right-handed students? These things can encourage a student to take better notes in class and stay engaged in lab activities. And you never know when the next Isaac Newton or Alan Turing or Marie Curie will show up in your class!