UW gets grant for developing mind-controlled robotic limbs

07/14/11 A new UW research center, supported by a big National Science Foundation grant, will work to make Seattle a research and commercial hub for mind-controlled robotics, or "neurobotics."

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Young Achiever: Jarrod Cingel

07/13/11 This week's Young Achiever Jarrod Cingel, 16, who attends Bethel Park High School where he is student government technology director and member of the tennis and fencing teams, among other things, is presenting his computer science project, "Artificial Intelligence and Skatterball," at the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid 2011 Conference, to be held Monday through July 21 in Salt Lake City.

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Honors Institute students test life as arctic field scientists

07/15/11 Six students from the Rural Alaska Honors Institute are to participate in an arctic research project in late July, hosted by scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Science Foundation's Arctic Systems Science thermokarst project.

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