Honors, Program, & Research

Last week Zach Carr, NJ A 2011, was a recipient of the NCAA Top VIII award. The honor “recognizes current student-athletes who will have completed their athletics eligibility for their success on the fields and courts, in the classroom and in the community.”

Click here for more on this year’s recipients from the NCAA or read this article from Stevens Institute of Technology about Carr, the first Top VIII award winner in Stevens’ history.

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The Detroit Free Press recently profiled Michigan State University’s ground breaking on the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).

According to the article, the facility is already having an impact on the state’s economic activity, luring top minds in science to MSU, and creating jobs.

One scientist who has already arrived to join “the launch of the world’s most powerful research machines,” is John Weisend, FL B ’82. Weisend is a cryogenics group leader at the FRIB.

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Researchers at Brown University have successfully demonstrated a pill that can be steered and maneuvered through a gastrointestinal tract.

Experiments have moved pills through stomachs of rats. Read the full article from MIT’s Technology Review for more on the innovation and potential benefits of this research.

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