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Assistant Professor Salvador Almagro-Moreno with UCF's College of Medicine is identifying the genetic and environmental triggers that lead some seemingly harmless bacteria to go rogue and become infectious and often lethal to humans. He works with the agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera as a model system and conducts extensive studies on Vibrio vulnificus, more commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria.

Assistant Professor Samik Bhattacharya with UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science focuses on the maneuvers of marine animals. His research on their mechanics can lead to improvements in the maneuverability of unmanned water vehicles used to seek underwater gas and oil deposits and explore the depths of the ocean. Such vehicles are also used in situations too dangerous for people, such as detecting or destroying underwater mines.

Assistant Professor Yanjie Fu with UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science seeks to equip machines with the intelligence needed to bridge the gap between understanding what will happen and solving how to change it in a dynamic system. Fu is making artificial intelligence systems street smart, so they can make sound real-time decisions that could avert disasters such as a national black out when the electrical grid system is overloaded.

Assistant Professor Lorraine Leon with UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science designsmaterials that mimic the properties of natural biomaterials. The new biomaterials could be useful for designing carriers for potentially life-saving drugs and nucleic acids that can help patients battling diseases such as cancer, as well as building new biomaterials used to create dynamic ecofriendly reactors.

Assistant Professor Robert Steward, Jr. with UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science and UCF's College of Medicine is dissecting cell mechanics to better understand disease. Steward looks at the cells that line inside of blood vessels to examine the mechanics at work and better understand the forces behind heart disease and diabetes.

The NSF awards recognize early-career professionals with promising research. UCF has had more than 50 awardees in the past 10 years.

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Doug Neckers| Community Columnist

One of the valuable gifts older people contribute to society is a collective memory about personalities and events that occurred in a community in the past. My own collective memory about some fascinating Toledo-area people, who tangled in an epic lawsuit, surfaced a few weeks ago. That lawsuit went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

My memory got an unexpected jog when I watched, as I usually do, Judy Woodruff's "PBS News Hour" program.

A final story from her Arts Canvas featured the classical pianist Mahani Teave, 38, who grew up on Easter Island, part of Polynesia. About 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, it is one of the most remote places on Earth. Called "Rapa Nui" in the Polynesian language, the island has a population of barely 7,000 people. It's famous for those mysterious giant stone statues, the moai, created by the ancient Rapa Nui people.

Easter Island was a veritable music desert in Teave's childhood. Music teachers came, spent a few months, and left. Pianos? Oh, they were almost "non-existent" in her recollection. Yet it can take 10-15 years of intensive study with a master pianist to become a classical pianist with hours of practice every day.

So how did Teave become the ingnue of classical piano, mastering pieces like Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor? That's the featured track on Teave'sdebut album, "Rapa Nui Odyssey." In March, it climbed to the top of Billboard's classical charts. How did that odyssey happen?

The answer involves, peripherally at least, Toledo, Bowling Green State University, and a $100 million lawsuit alleging the pilfering of intellectual property. It touches on some of northwest Ohio's most renowned personalities: Visionary inventors like the glass industrys duo of the late Harold McMaster and Norman Nitschke and the computer scientist, David L. Fulton. McMaster and Nitschke need little introduction to Toledo area folks. McMaster and Nitschke founded GlasstechInc. the glass fabrication firm and First Solar, the solar energy mega-company manufacturing glass solar panels in Perrysburg. Both were also investors in my company, Spectra Group Ltd. now part of Form Labs LLC.

Fulton may be less familiar. In 1970, he was hired by the mathematics department to bring the computer programming to Bowling Green State University. From math he began a department he called computer science and chaired it for a decade. He was there when I joined BGSU in late 1973. During that tenure, Fulton also co-founded with Sylvania, Ohio, attorney Richard LaValleySr. a company named Fox Software. It developed a widely used database management program called FoxPro. But before that came a predecessor; Fox Research.

Fox Datas 150 employees worked in a Perrysburg shopping center. It had 100,000 customers using Fox Data programs for everything from manufacturing control to accounting. Fulton sold it to Microsoft for $173 million in stock 1992, and became a Microsoft vice president, inviting selected employees to join him in Seattle, before retiring in 1994.

Like so many scientists Albert Einstein to name one Fulton was an interested, amateur musician. For more about the science-music connection check outnobelprize.org/symphony-of-science. For more about Fulton's life in music, google "Fulton violin." Teaser: With his new found wealth, Fulton amassed an astonishing collection of priceless violins, cellos, and bows by Stradivari and other masters.

PBS flashed an image of Fulton and, I think, a Stradivarius violin when detailing Teave's odyssey. It began when a visiting teacher introduced Teave to the piano. It was love at first sound and touch for her. Her natural talent for the keyboard blossomed. Teave left Rapa Nui to advance that talent in Chile, the United States, and Germany. Then she returned.

Fulton, now a Seattle arts patron, visited Easter Island three years ago. After hearing Teave play, he convinced her to come to the U.S. to record her work and helped her with the money. The result was her top-of-the-charts album, the "PBS News Hour" feature, and a new Amazon documentary on her life and home. The title: "Song of Rapa Nui."

Fulton's image on PBS made my jaw drop. And slowly those collective memories washed over me. I remembered him from BSGU. And from a major legal clash that involved my good friends and colleagues Harold and Norm. They were among a group of investors who put money into Fulton's startup business, Fox Research. Older readers may have their own collective memories about pillars of their communities, that invested in the shops of creative young person.

The Toledo investors in Fox Research, though were less than happy when LaValley and Fulton sold Fox Software to Microsoft and they were not included as part of the sale. They hit the proverbial ceiling, contending that Fulton and LaValley improperly sold knowledge the development of which they had paid for and owned. They wanted a piece of the sales largesse. So they sued both LaValley and Fulton.

Other shareholders in the original Fox Research settled for about $400,000. Mr. Delos Palmer, a Toledo attorney, persisted. A Toledo jury awarded him $22 million, which a judge reduced to $13.7 million. But in 1997, a federal appeals court reversed the original verdict.Mr. Palmer appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case. He wound up with a $3 million settlement. Fulton took his money though it doesnt appear he played the fiddle forever after.

So, to my older friends I say:Share those collective memories with others. They can become part of a larger endowment of knowledge that helps illuminate and enlighten the younger people as they march through the years.

Doug Neckers is the retired founder of the center for photochemical sciences and past president of the board of the Robert H. Jackson Center; his writings can be found on 3dsicenceblog.com. The author is indebted to science writer/collaborator Michael J. Woods for some of this story.

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By Jerry Lincecum| Special to the Herald Democrat

Wouldnt it be great if the human body could regenerate a missing limb? Michael Levin, a developmental biologist at Tufts University, believes it can be done. He studies how bodies grow, heal, and in some cases regenerate.

He has made a number of important discoveries by working on the planarian, a flatworm about two centimeters long. If you cut off its head, it grows a new one. Simultaneously, its severed head grows a new tail. In fact, researchers have discovered that no matter how many pieces you cut a planarian intothe record is 279you will get that many new worms. Somehow each part knows whats missing and builds it anew.

The most astonishing part is that Levin hasnt touched the planarians genome. Instead, hes changed the electrical signals among the worms cells. By altering this electric patterning, he revised the organisms memory of what it was supposed to look like.

This is where possible applications to humans enter the conversation. Levins work is part of a convergence between biology and computer science. In the past 50 years, scientists have come to see the brain as a kind of computer. Levin extends this thinking to the body; he believes that mastering the code of electrical charges in its tissues will give scientists unprecedented control over how and where they grow.

Levin says that regeneration is not just for so-called lower animals. Deer can regenerate antlers; humans can regrow their liver. Human children below the age of approximately seven to eleven are able to regenerate their fingertips. So why couldnt human-growth programs be activated for other body partssevered limbs, failed organs, even brain tissue damaged by stroke?

Levins work involves a conceptual shift. The computers in our heads are often contrasted with the rest of the body; most of us dont think of muscles and bones as making calculations. But how do our wounds know how to heal? How do the tissues of our unborn bodies differentiate and take shape without direction from a brain?

When a caterpillar becomes a moth, most of its brain liquefies and is rebuiltand yet researchers have discovered that memories can be preserved across the metamorphosis. That suggests that limbs and tissues besides the brain might be able, at some primitive level, to remember, think, and act.

Levins work has appeared in textbooks and he publishes between thirty and forty papers a year. His collaborators include biologists, computer scientists, and philosophers. He is convincing a growing number of biologists that it is possible to decipher, and even speak, the bioelectric code.

Grasping the bioelectric code, Levin believes, will give us a new way of interacting with our bodies. And he is not alone in thinking that we will someday be able to regrow human limbs.

He and some other developmental biologists disagree only about how long it might take us to get there, and about how, exactly, regrowth would work. Other projects explore growing body parts in labs for transplantation; or 3-D-printing them whole; or injecting stem cells into residual limbs. The solution may eventually involve a medley of techniques.

Researchers disagree about the role that bioelectricity plays in morphogenesis. The consensus is that there are many things we still need to discover about how the process

works. Our intuitions tell us that it would be bad to be a machine, or a group of machines, but Levins work suggests precisely this reality. In his world, were robots all the way down.

Jerry Lincecum is a retired Austin College professor who now teaches classes for older adults who want to write their life stories. He welcomes your reminiscences on any subject: jlincecum@me.com.

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Mechanical engineering seniors James Kok and Luis Ferrusquilla present their research on the MataMorph-3 at the 2021 CSUNposium.

Each year, CSUN students push themselves to new heights and create amazing designs and research presentations.

With COVID-19 continuing to limit activity on campus, CSUN students showed that their innovation would not be slowed down, as their work was presented at two recent events the CSUNposium research and creative works symposium and the College of Engineering and Computer Science Senior Design Project Showcase.

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From groundbreaking flight engineering to studies about the effects of COVID-19 on society, CSUN undergraduates and graduate students showed off their research through oral and poster presentations at the 25th annual Research and Creative Works Symposium, known as the CSUNposium, on April 9.

The 2021 CSUNposium on April 9 featured almost 400 undergraduate and graduate studentsand represented every CSUN college.

SomeCSUN mechanical engineering students found inspiration from the sky. For example, one group of the students tested and built MataMorph-3, also known as XM-3, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with wings and tail that morph, or slightly change shape, to allow the aircraft to adapt to a variety of flight conditions. Other students spent time researching a variety of topics including the effects of COVID-19 on society, ancient antibiotic resistance in biology, and many more.

The students are also due a significant amount of credit for working so hard to modify their research plans in order to accommodate virtual data collection,said Amy Levin, assistant vice president of graduate studies, who helped organize the event.

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2021 Senior Design Project Showcase

Photograph of the Go Gloves team together, alongside their finished project.

On May 7, 28 student teams presented their senior capstone projectsat theCollege of Engineering and Computer Sciences 2021Virtual Senior Design Project Showcase.

From proposals on improving and storing rainwater and drainage, to designing a brand new Las Vegas casino, to a human-powered vehicle, the students showcased their creativity in a virtual setting.

In the spirit of friendly competition, one winner was selected from each of five major groups represented at the showcase. However, all of the students were able to gain valuable knowledge and skills that they will undoubtedly make use of in the future.

These projects include more than just the design and building; the students become competent in skills pertaining to working with teams, oral presentations, visual display, and more soft skills, as some refer to them, said Houssam A. Toutanji, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

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