Clips
URSI Alumnae/i and Mentors in the Media
- A robot to test techniques swimming animals
P3 and ASIMO blog
http://honda-p3.com/html/3/a-robot-to-test-techniques-swimming-animals.html - Robot Spotlight: CoroBots and Microsoft Robotics Studio at Vassar
Robot magazine, Spring 2008
http://www.botmag.com - Forum to look at saving stream By Michael Mayfield
Multidisciplinary URSI study of the Casper Kill, a 21-mile stream that flows through Dutchess County, is presented at a public forum.
Poughkeepsie Journal, December 21, 2006
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com - Robots' Swimming Test By Laura Blackburn
Professor John Long and his student research team evolved a population of Tadros (tadpole robots) over 10 generations in order to test some ideas about adaptation in vertebrates.
First published online November 17, 2006
Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 0i (2006)
http://jeb.biologists.org - Chemicals stir health concerns By Janet Gray
Professor Janet Gray and her student research team seek to educate the public about the link between environmental chemicals and breast cancer.
Poughkeepsie Journal, October 29, 2006
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com - Swimming Robot Tests Theories About Locomotion in Existing and Extinct Animals By Randy Vines
Professor John Long’s underwater robot Madeleine offers insights into the evolution of swimming vertebrates.
National Science Foundation, May 30, 2006
http://www.nsf.gov - Galaxies Don Mask of Stars in New Spitzer Image
Professor of astronomy Debra Elmegreen is the lead author of a paper describing the new Spitzer image.
NASA press release, April 26, 2006
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu - Seeing the Edge of the Universe based on ESA Hubble report
URSI alum Mike Santos, a postdoc at the Space Telescope Institute, was a member of the international team of astronomers that discovered the most distant known galaxy in the universe, 13 billion light years away.
Astrobiology Magazine, February 17, 2006
http://www.astrobio.net - Multidisciplinary Collaboration By Emery Bernhard
Professor of anthropology Lucy Johnson and “the bone gang” analyzed thousands of bones from an archeological site in Alaska to gain a better understanding of prehistoric Aleutian hunters.
Vassar Quarterly, Fall 2005
http://www.aavc.vassar.edu/vq/ - Walking on Water By Robert B. Suter
Charlotte isn't the only spider who performs miracles. Fishing spiders walk on water. Professor of biology Robert Suter explains how.
American Scientist Online, March-April 1999
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/15641
