On Campus, August 2013

The 2013 National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellows have been named. The Fellowship “is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of fifteen supported disciplines. The Department of Defense is committed to increasing the number and quality of our nation’s scientists and engineers.” There are nearly 200 awardees this year, and at least 41 are Tau Beta Pi members. Click here for the full list of NDSEG Fellows.

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Lawrence Technological University has received an anonymous gift, which is the largest cash gift ever given to the University. The funds will help complete a planned STEM center to be named after Richard E. Marburger, Ph.D., the university’s fourth president who served from 1977-1993. Dr. Marburger, MI H ’50, remains active on campus today and is approaching his 50th anniversary at Lawrence Tech. Read the article for more information on the Marburger STEM Center that will support robotics, software engineering, synthetic biology and more.

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An interdisciplinary team is working to improve the cybersecurity of the nation’s health systems. As part of the Trustworthy Health and Wellness project and with funding from the NSF, “the team will work to establish better authentication and privacy tools, trustworthy control of medical devices and effective methods to detect malware, compute trust metrics and audit medical information systems and networks.”

A news article from the University of Michigan profiles their work and focuses on two associate professors from U of M that are involved in the research.

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