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Invisibility through 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, is the process of producing solid objects from digital blueprints. 3D printing has proliferated since the start of the twenty-first…

Jones Seminar: “How to Counter the Counterfeiter”

What do an off-colored Coach bag and a sugar pill have in common? They are part of the hundreds of billion dollar counterfeiting industry that innovators such as…

Mutation Makes the H5N1 Flu Lose Its Grip

In 2011, in an attempt to evaluate whether H5N1, also known as the bird flu, has the potential to become highly transmissible among humans, scientists in both the…

Wind Energy and Resistance in New England

James Manwell, director of the Wind Energy Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, presented the third part of the “Leading Voices in Energy, Sustainability, and Security” lecture…

In a World with Free Information, He with the Biggest Computer Wins

Jaron Lanier, introduced as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, presented on his book, Who Owns the Future?, in Spanos Auditoriuim on Friday,…