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- ATLAS PhD Student Ruhan Yang passed her preliminary exam on August 4. Her work on her dissertation,聽"Paper Robot Building Kits: Present and Future," is overseen by聽Professor聽Ellen Do,聽 Professor聽Mark Gross聽and聽Assistant Professor Daniel Leithinger.聽
- ATLAS researchers will present six published works and two workshops at the 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the world鈥檚 preeminent forum for the field of human-computer interaction. The conference, commonly referred to as 鈥淐HI,鈥 will be held hybrid-onsite April 30-May 6, 2022 in New Orleans.
- First-place New Venture Challenge winner, Chembotix, was awarded $45,000 for its work on speeding up the pace of chemistry research聽and development. Making molecules in current laboratory settings is typically time-consuming and dangerous; Kailey Shara's automation makes the process faster and safer.
- Kailey Shara, ATLAS PhD student and a member of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab,聽won two top prizes within several days to fund her company, Chembotix, taking home a total of $17,500.聽聽
Shara won first place at the NVC 14 Female Founder Pitch ($5000) and the NVC Finals Audience Choice Award ($1000), as well as two first-place wins with 麻豆免费版下载Boulder's New Venture Launch program ($11,500).
- Darren Sholes, an ATLAS PhD student and a member of the ACME Lab, won first place in NVC's newcomer competition and walking away with $5,000 for LoopSketch, a program that makes it possible for musicians to remotely collaborate.
- The article by Simone Hyater-Adams PhD '19, "Deconstructing Black physics identity: Linking individual and social constructs using the critical physics identity framework," published in this month's Physical Review Physics Education