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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. New chapters in Ecuador, Hungary, and India Several chapters have been established in recent months.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE. Akhtar originally wanted to work with people with amputations as a physician. and a Ph.D.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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You don’t have to identify the people,” says data scientist Jonathan Weber of the University of Haute-Alsace , in Mulhouse, France, and coauthor of a review of video crowd analysis. Whether this is true is unclear; the fast evolution of the technologies involved makes it a difficult question to answer.

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Why You’ll Pay More and Behave Better When You Travel This Summer

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The goal is to ensure that tourism functions smoothly for visitors and locals alike, said Megan Epler Wood, managing director of the Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program at Cornell University. All tourism is dependent on beautiful natural and cultural resources.

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150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate

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Working from Jacksons photographs allows Jeff and his collaborator, Townsend Peterson, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, to see more than 150 years of change, overlaid on top of the hundreds of millions of years buried in the landscape. Anah had been 4 years old, living in Ecuador.

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