The Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering (PAVE) team won “rookie of the year,” third place overall out of 47 teams and first place in the design challenge portion of the 16th Annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, held May 30 to June 2 at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.
The competition required student teams to design and create […]

Ever since the birth of the internet and the discovery of Google®, the trip to the library seems ever too taxing if not out of the way in our extremely hectic lives. […]

In the year 2020, Jerry the average American worker, yawns and wakes up to a dark room as his alarm goes off.  Sitting up in bed, he hits a switch on the wall by his bed adjusting the opacity of his windows, to let in more light.  As he walks to the bathroom, he taps […]

The 2008 Pi Mile Run generated more than $4,000, which will benefit a clean-water project in three communities in El Salvador. (large image)
As 255 Madison students and community members thundered down the Lakeshore Path on the first warm Saturday morning in April, they dodged muddy puddles and happy pedestrians out for a weekend walk along […]

Tokyo sits on a tectonic plate boundary, making it particularly vulnerable to earthquakes. So, for the capital and largest city of Japan, a seismic monitoring system to predict earthquakes is critical.
However, current technology can give residents only a few tens of seconds of warning that an earthquake is about to strike.
More than 6,000 miles away […]

By: Patryk Garlinski, Ben Jabbawy, Matt Gleason, and Yeounoh Chung
 
Imagine a world where instead of paying $40 or more to fill up your car with gas just to make it through the week, you could plug your car in overnight, get thousands of miles out of a full charge, and even help free […]