…much of this shared work doesn’t amount to much more than new LOLCats, but even this, he argues is an important step: any contribution moves a person from consuming to…
…the helm again, Mojica, Finzer, Casey, and Hudson are Co-PIs for a new $2.5 million award from NSF to extend this pivotal work to ensure that prospective teachers are comfortable…
Fig. 1: Swirling flows form between two opposite fans. A new type of object, “fan”, has been added to Energy2D to create and control fluid flows. This fan replaces the…
…systems, and he set out to develop computer software that could model this. This was the start of a brand new discipline known as system dynamics Forrester’s pioneering work led…
…lost energy, which is often converted into thermal energy that spreads out through heat transfer. With the new multiphysics modeling capabilities, the Energy2D software can show the complete picture of…
…traces left by fireballs of different sizes. Figure 3: Thermophoresis (Soret’s effect) With this new capacity, we can simulate phenomena such as thermophoresis, in which the different particle types in…
…arose? A new 3-D model of early Earth suggests that the planet underwent significant changes–from very warm to very cold. Past models were one-dimensional–holding constant the amount of cloud cover…
…with the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University, has developed a new curriculum unit called “Why do I feel colder when I am wet than when I am…
…technologies. One of the major take-aways from the talk (though there were many) was her profile of the new learner that they’re seeing emerge. They call this student the “free-agent…
Congratulations to Siubhan F. of Cork, Ireland! She’s the winner of a new iPad for participating in our website survey. Siubhan told us how she learned of the Concord Consortium…