Minecraft: Survival Games! Ep. 322 - Space Station Suffocation
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September 26 -- TDIPH#7 -- Space Capsule Emergency Separation Device
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The Soyuz TMA-14M crew (left to right): Shuttle veteran Barry "Butch" Wilmore, Soyuz commander and space station veteran Alexander Samokutyaev and rookie flight engineer Elena Serova, the first female cosmonaut assigned to a long-duration stay aboard the station. NASA
An experienced Russian cosmonaut, a NASA shuttle veteran and the first female cosmonaut to be assigned to the International Space Station geared up for launch Thursday aboard a Soyuz ferry craft for a four-orbit flight to the orbiting lab complex.
With commander Alexander Samokutyaev at the controls, flanked on the left by board engineer Elena Serova and on the right by Barry "Butch" Wilmore, the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft was scheduled for blastoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:25 p.m. EDT (GMT-4; 2:25 a.m. local time). The timing allows the Soyuz to launch directly into the plane of the station's orbit for a fast-track six-hour rendezvous.
If all goes well, Samokutyaev and Serova will oversee an automated sequence of rocket firings to catch up with the space station, moving in for docking at the upper Poisk module around 10:15 p.m. Standing by to welcome them aboard will be Expedition 41 commander Maxim Suraev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA flight engineer Reid Wiseman.
Suraev, Gerst and Wiseman have had the station to themselves since Sept. 10, when outgoing commander Steven Swanson, Soyuz commander Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev returned to Earth aboard the TMA-12M ferry craft.
Samokutyaev is a veteran of a previous station flight, logging 164 days in space in 2011. Wilmore has a shuttle flight to his credit, serving as pilot of the Atlantis for an 11-day station visit in 2009. Serova, the fourth female cosmonaut and the first to visit the space station, is making her first flight.
"There were a number of women on the ISS before me, but I will be the first Russian woman cosmonaut," she said in a NASA interview. "I never thought about it too much because space is what I do for work, and that's what I think about it: It's my work. But obviously for Russian women it might be a breakthrough in this area."
Married to an aerospace engineer and the mother of an 11-year-old child, Serova is firmly focused on the job at hand, dismissing questions about the greater significance of her mission.
"There have been quite a few female astronauts before me, and I don't see my flying as such an outstanding event," said said in a later interview. "Each of us is first and foremost governed by his or her primary tasks aboard the station. So, I would say this is a regular and nominal occurrence. Nothing special."
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Media are invited to the third annual Racin' the Station duathlon Sept. 27 at NASA'sMarshall Space Flight Centerin Huntsville, Alabama.
More than 200 athletes of all ages will try to finish a specially designed course in the same amount of time a little over 90 minutes that it takes the International Space Station, traveling about 17,000 mph, to complete one circuit around Earth.
The timed course for adults begins at 8:30 a.m. CDT with a 3.14 km run, followed by a 23 km bicycle ride, and finishes with another 3.14 km run, with the start and finish line at Marshall's Wellness Center Building 4315. The length of the running portion of the race is not a coincidence. Race organizers arranged the distance to coincide with the number pi or , approximately equal to 3.14159.
The race is designed for participants of any ability. If the event seems too strenuous, adult participants can form two-person relay teams, in which one does the running portions and a partner handles the cycling.
After a successful inaugural race in 2012, race organizers introduced a youth "anti-duathlon" in 2013 where participants reverse the activities and bike, run and bike again on the shorter courses -- also based on pi. The youth event begins immediately following the main event. There are two different overall lengths based on the self-assessed ability of the youth. The short course starts and finishes with a two-mile bike ride (approximately 3.14 km) with a half-mile run in between. The youth long course is twice the length of the short: four-mile rides with a one-mile run separating them.
Racers will travel by many Marshall Center facilities including the Payload Operations Integration Center, the command post of space station science. At race headquarters, they will have the opportunity to learn about NASA programs, including the International Space Station, the Space Launch System, Mighty Eagle, the United Launch Alliance Atlas IV and Delta V rockets and exhibits of the Patriot missile and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from the U.S. Army. Prizes will be awarded at a ceremony following the end of the race.
The event is organized by theTeam Rocket Triathlon Clubin Huntsville and by the Marshall Association, a professional employee service organization at the Marshall Center whose members include civil service employees, retirees and contractors. It provides informal networking and community-building opportunities for its members. Proceeds from the registration fee for the event go to the Marshall Association scholarship fund.
News media interested in covering the event should contact the Marshall Center Office of Public & Employee Communications at 256-544-0034 no later than 2 p.m. Sept. 26.
For details on the race, including course maps and distances, visit the Racin' the Station Duathlon website:
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September 25, 2014
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Karen C. Fox, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Two main types of explosions occur on the sun: solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Unlike the energy and X-rays produced in a solar flare which can reach Earth at the speed of light in eight minutes coronal mass ejections are giant clouds of solar material that take one to three days to reach Earth. Once at Earth, these ejections, also called CMEs, can impact satellites in space or interfere with radio communications. During CME Week from Sept. 22 to 26, 2014, we explore different aspects of these giant eruptions that surge out from our closest star.
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On July 23, 2012, a massive cloud of solar material erupted off the suns right side, zooming out into space. It soon passed one of NASAs Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft, which clocked the CME as traveling between 1,800 and 2,200 miles per second as it left the sun. This was the fastest CME ever observed by STEREO.
Two other observatories NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory and the joint European Space Agency/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory witnessed the eruption as well. The July 2012 CME didnt move toward Earth, but watching an unusually strong CME like this gives scientists an opportunity to observe how these events originate and travel through space.
STEREOs unique viewpoint from the sides of the sun combined with the other two observatories watching from closer to Earth. Together they helped scientists create models of the entire July 2012 event. They learned that an earlier, smaller CME helped clear the path for the larger event, thus contributing to its unusual speed.
Such data helps advance our understanding of what causes CMEs and improves modeling of similar CMEs that could be Earth-directed.
Watch the movie to see how NASAs solar-observing missions worked together to track this CME.
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We don't know for sure if Derek Jeter is going to play this weekend at Fenway Park to finish out his storied career, but we do know that the Red Sox plan to celebrate the Yankee captain's achievements on Sunday.
And we've got some details on one of the gifts the Yankee great will receive from his team's greatest rival that was made in a Brunswick, Maine clothing factory.
Jeter remained non-committal on his plans for the weekend following the Yankees 9-5 loss to the Orioles Wednesday night.
"We just lost, man," Jeter told reporters. "Respect the fact that we just lost, we are not going to the playoffs. I cant think about Boston right now. Right now I am disappointed, I cant tell you about Boston because I am not thinking about Boston."
Now that the Yankees have been eliminated from postseason play, New York manager Joe Girardi has hedged on his plan to pencil Jeter into the lineup for all remaining games.
"I will leave that up to [Jeter], very similar with what I did for Mo [Rivera]," Girardi said of Jeter's final days. "In my mind, I really thought Mo would want to play an inning in center field and it never happened. I will leave it up to Derek, I dont see why I would do it any different."
As far as honoring Jeter at Fenway this weekend, fans should expect the ceremony to be understated.
"It's going to be a one day ceremony, on Sunday," Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said on WEEI's Dennis and Callahan show Thursday. "We hope he's going to play this weekend. I think it's likely that he will. I would describe it as low-key. It's more respect and admiration for him as a ballplayer. I don't think you'll see too many talking heads but there will be plenty of gestures of respect for him.
"In terms of tangible gifts for him, we're not giving him a red convertible or something like that. What he cares most about these days is his Turn 2 Foundation, and we intend to make a sizable contribution to that, and to give a little piece of Fenway Park to take with him along with some musical gestures."
One of the gifts the Red Sox will present to Jeter on Sunday will be a pair of Yankee-themed duck boots made by L.L. Bean. The boots are similar to those the Red Sox wore in the parade following their 2013 World Series win, except they are Yankee blue and the lining is made from a Yankee uniform.
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NASA SDO - Lunar Transit, September 24, 2014
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Space Station Crew Member Discusses the Future with Former President Clinton
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Here #39;s Why India #39;s Mars Mission Is Cheaper Than NASA #39;s
India sent an orbiter to Mars, and much has been made of the shoestring budget it did it on. Why exactly is its mission so much cheaper than NASA #39;s? Follow Sebastian Martinez: http://www.twitter.c...
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft isn't wasting any time at Mars.
MAVEN sent home itsfirst images of Mars' upper atmosphereearly Monday morning (Sept. 22), just eight hours after entering orbit around the Red Planet.
The false-color images, which NASA released Wednesday (Sept. 24), were captured by MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument when the probe was 22,680 miles (36,500 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, agency officials said.
"Blue shows the ultraviolet light from the sun scattered from atomic hydrogen gas in an extended cloud that goes to thousands of kilometers above the planets surface," NASA officials wrote in anonline description of the image.
"Green shows a different wavelength of ultraviolet light that is primarily sunlight reflected off of atomic oxygen, showing the smaller oxygen cloud," they added. "Red shows ultraviolet sunlight reflected from the planets surface; the bright spot in the lower right is light reflected either from polar ice or clouds."
The $671 millionMAVEN mission, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is NASA's first effort to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. MAVEN will use its three onboard instrument suites to measure the rate of gas escape into space, in an attempt to better understand why Mars lost most of its atmosphere over the eons. (The planet's air was relatively thick in the ancient past but is now just 1 percent as dense as that of Earth.)
MAVEN's observations should shed light on how and why Mars transitioned from a warm and wet world billions of years ago to the cold, dry planet we know today, mission scientists have said.
The spacecraft is now in a commissioning phase, during which mission team members will lower MAVEN to its final orbit and check out its science gear. The probe's one-year science mission is scheduled to start in early November.
MAVEN isn't the only new arrival at Mars. On Tuesday night (Sept. 23), just two days after MAVEN's orbital insertion, India's first-ever Red Planet effort, the $74 million Mars Orbiter Mission, was captured by the planet's gravity as well.
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft isn't wasting any time at Mars.
MAVEN sent home itsfirst images of Mars' upper atmosphereearly Monday morning (Sept. 22), just eight hours after entering orbit around the Red Planet.
The false-color images, which NASA released Wednesday (Sept. 24), were captured by MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument when the probe was 22,680 miles (36,500 kilometers) above the surface of Mars, agency officials said.
"Blue shows the ultraviolet light from the sun scattered from atomic hydrogen gas in an extended cloud that goes to thousands of kilometers above the planets surface," NASA officials wrote in anonline description of the image.
"Green shows a different wavelength of ultraviolet light that is primarily sunlight reflected off of atomic oxygen, showing the smaller oxygen cloud," they added. "Red shows ultraviolet sunlight reflected from the planets surface; the bright spot in the lower right is light reflected either from polar ice or clouds."
The $671 millionMAVEN mission, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is NASA's first effort to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. MAVEN will use its three onboard instrument suites to measure the rate of gas escape into space, in an attempt to better understand why Mars lost most of its atmosphere over the eons. (The planet's air was relatively thick in the ancient past but is now just 1 percent as dense as that of Earth.)
MAVEN's observations should shed light on how and why Mars transitioned from a warm and wet world billions of years ago to the cold, dry planet we know today, mission scientists have said.
The spacecraft is now in a commissioning phase, during which mission team members will lower MAVEN to its final orbit and check out its science gear. The probe's one-year science mission is scheduled to start in early November.
MAVEN isn't the only new arrival at Mars. On Tuesday night (Sept. 23), just two days after MAVEN's orbital insertion, India's first-ever Red Planet effort, the $74 million Mars Orbiter Mission, was captured by the planet's gravity as well.
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NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will supply images of the future to brighten the fun and boost the learning at the first-ever Virginia Science Festival.Set to take place Oct. 4-11 at locations across the commonwealth, the festival has been organized by the Science Museum of Western Virginia and Virginia Tech. It brings together the worlds of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) with hands-on experiences, live performances, interactive demonstrations, and family-oriented entertainment.During the Oct. 4 festival kickoff event at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, NASA Langley Center Director Steve Jurczyk will lend a hand at an opening ceremony and give a talk at noon about NASA's future as part of a "Meet the Scientists" program. Also, staff from NASA Langley will present exhibits about vehicles that will one day carry NASA astronauts into deep space."One of NASA's key roles for the nation is to inspire the next generation of explorers," Jurczyk said. "This is an outstanding opportunity for our scientists, engineers and technologists to engage the public throughout the state in Langleys research, development and education activities."In Blacksburg, NASA's displays and interactive activities will offer a close-up look at the Space Launch System and Orion, the new launch vehicle and spacecraft now under development. Together, the Space Launch System and Orion vehicles will allow astronauts to travel beyond low Earth orbit all the way to an asteroid or Mars. A 30-foot-tall, inflatable model of the Space Launch System will make NASA's presence at the festival hard to miss.Other NASA displays at Virginia Tech will focus on unmanned aerial systems as well as partnerships that connect NASA Langley with NASA Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Displays will also explain the challenges and rewards of working and living in space.On Sunday, Oct. 5, the NASA Langley team will head up Interstate 81 to the city of Lexington to be part of a related science celebration. NASA representatives will also support the festival through mid-week presentations at several public schools in Mecklenburg County before traveling to the festivals finale in downtown Roanoke Oct. 10-11.The festival will touch the Hampton Roads region, too. NASA Langley will join with the Virginia Air & Space Center in Hampton and the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News to generate STEAM excitement. A gathering at the Hampton restaurant Marker 20 is also planned.NASA's contributions throughout the commonwealth are intended to help the festival make a strong first impression."As soon as we heard that NASA Langley would be a part of the Virginia Science Festival, we knew we were on the way to a successful public event," said Jim Rollings, executive director for the Science Museum of Western Virginia. "No one else generates excitement like NASA, and the work done at NASA Langley deserves as much public exposure as we can get."Here are highlights of NASA Langley's participation in the Virginia Science Festival:Oct. 4-- Festival kickoff ceremony at Moss Arts Center/Ruth C. Horton Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. 9:45 a.m.-- Festival events and displays on the campus Drillfield, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.-- "Meet the Scientists" presentation at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, Virginia Tech. NASA Langley Director Steve Jurczyk speaks on "The Future of NASA." Noon.-- "Cool Science Saturday" program at Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton. The event will feature activities and presentations from NASA representatives on subjects ranging from space radiation on the International Space Station to the physics behind the northern lights and similar phenomena. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.-- Air quality activities at Virginia Living Museum, Newport News. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Oct. 5-- Virginia Science Festival @ Lexington. This free one-day, interactive science fair for children and families is designed to spark interest and introduce people of all ages to the wonders of science and math. The event will take place in two locations in downtown Lexington: Dunlap Auditorium in Lexington Presbyterian Church, and at 18 E. Nelson (corner of Nelson and Randolph). 2-5 p.m.Oct. 6-- Science Caf event on the subject of big data at Marker 20 restaurant, 21 E. Queens Way, Hampton. NASA Langley scientists will discuss how they process the flood of data collected by NASAs CERES experiment measuring Earth's energy budget. 5:30 p.m.Oct. 11-- Festival finale at various locations in downtown Roanoke. NASA exhibits will be presented at Elmwood Park. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A festival school preview will be held in Roanoke on Oct. 10.-- "Explosions of Our Closest Star" program at Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton. The sun that we see every day is capable of producing extreme "space weather" events that can knock out the power grid and cause major satellite failures. In a series of talks starting at 11:30 a.m., experts from NASA Langley and NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center share insights into these solar storms. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.-- Talk: "Where Outer Space Meets the Air We Breathe: How the Atmosphere Affects Studies of Our Universe and Our Earth," by NASA Langley researcher Ann Martin at the Virginia Living Museum, Newport News. 6 p.m.To learn more about the Virginia Science Festival, visit the event website atvirginiasciencefestival.org. To learn more about NASAs Langley Research Center, visitwww.nasa.gov/centers/langley/
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Registration is open for the 2015 NASA Centennial Challenges Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Prize, which will take place April 7-12, 2015. The competition carries a prize purse of $50,000 and will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, in conjunction with theNASA Student Launchevent, an academic engineering design challenge that provides resources and experiences for students and faculty.
The Mars Ascent Vehicle Prize will aid NASA in advancing technologies that could be used to return samples from Mars in the future. The challenge focuses on simulating the collection of samples from the Martian surface, placing them into Mars orbit for collection and returning them to Earth. This new challenge is open to both academic and non-academic teams to demonstrate technologies that may be relevant to potential future NASA Science Mission Directorate Mars missions. This challenge has no relation to NASA missions currently in development such as the Mars 2020.
The MAV Prize is an opportunity for us to team up with an established academic competition and invite teams of all kinds to work in parallel on technologies that will aid in future Mars exploration, said Sam Ortega, Centennial Challenges program manager.
The Challenge requires reliable, autonomous sample insertion into the rocket, launch from the surface, and deployment of the sample container. Innovative technology from this competition could be considered in future planning for a Mars exploration mission.
Centennial Challenges will award prizes for successful demonstration of an end-to-end autonomous operation to sequentially accomplish the following tasks: picking up the sample, inserting the sample into a single stage solid-propellant rocket in a horizontal position, erecting the rocket, launching the rocket to an altitude of 3,000 feet, deploying a sample container, and landing the container safely while following the National Association of Rocketry guidelines.
The first-place award is $25,000; second-place is $15,000; and third-place is $10,000. Competing teams will be eligible for prize money only after the successful completion of all the required tasks.
Interested teams may apply for the challenge by submitting a registration proposal to the Student Launch project office. Details for submitting the proposal and complete rules may be found in thehandbook.
The Centennial Challenges program is part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions. It is managed out of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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NJIT Distinguished Professor Somenath Mitra, Ph.D., whose pioneering research has spanned a spectrum of applications for carbon nanotechnology that address critical quality-of-life issues, will receive the seventh annual Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal on Oct. 2, 2014. Dr. Mitra has been instrumental in developing technology for photovoltaic cells solar cells that can be output on home-based inkjet printers to provide household power when exposed to the sun. Through nanotube technology, he has also advanced the development of sensors that could be used for continuous real-time monitoring of organic contaminants in air and water. For more information on Dr. Mitra's research, visit: http://www.njit.edu/about/boards/overseers/awards/prizeandmedal/2014/index.php.
Yeheskel Bar-Ness, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will receive the second annual Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his long and distinguished career and for his substantial and notable research contributions to industry and academe. A prominent expert in wireless communications and signal processing for more than four decades, Dr. Bar-Ness directs The Elisha Yegal Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research at NJIT, which has long been in the forefront of wireless technology. For more information on Dr. Bar-Ness, visit: http://www.njit.edu/about/boards/overseers/awards/lifetime-achievement/2014/bar-ness.php
"The purpose of the Excellence in Research Prize and Medal is to elevate the image of research on campus and in the community," said Philip Rinaldi, chief executive officer of Philadelphia Energy Solutions and chair of the NJIT Board of Overseers. "As an alumnus and chair of the NJIT Board of Overseers, I am deeply honored to share in special recognition of the talent and dedication that continues to build our university's stature worldwide."
The award ceremony and premiere of research video profiles of Dr. Mitra and Dr. Bar-Ness will be streamed live Oct. 2, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. ET. For a live streaming link, visit: http://www.njit.edu/excellenceinresearch.
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The NJIT Board of Overseers is composed of prominent volunteer alumni and friends of the university, as well as key administrators, including President Joel S. Bloom. It is the governing body for the Foundation at NJIT the university's fundraising arm and has a joint fiduciary responsibility with the Board of Trustees for stewarding and developing NJIT's endowment. Additionally, the board has initiated activities and events that increase NJIT's visibility and prestige. These initiatives include establishing the Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal, which was first presented in 2008.
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Nanotechnology expert Somenath Mitra to receive NJIT Excellence in Research award
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NJIT Distinguished Professor Somenath Mitra, Ph.D., whose pioneering research has spanned a spectrum of applications for carbon nanotechnology that address critical quality-of-life issues, will receive the seventh annual Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal on Oct. 2, 2014. Dr. Mitra has been instrumental in developing technology for photovoltaic cells solar cells that can be output on home-based inkjet printers to provide household power when exposed to the sun. Through nanotube technology, he has also advanced the development of sensors that could be used for continuous real-time monitoring of organic contaminants in air and water. For more information on Dr. Mitras research, visit: http://www.njit.edu/about/boards/overseers/awards/prizeandmedal/2014/index.php.
Yeheskel Bar-Ness, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will receive the second annual Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his long and distinguished career and for his substantial and notable research contributions to industry and academe. A prominent expert in wireless communications and signal processing for more than four decades, Dr. Bar-Ness directs The Elisha Yegal Bar-Ness Center for Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Research at NJIT, which has long been in the forefront of wireless technology. For more information on Dr. Bar-Ness, visit: http://www.njit.edu/about/boards/overseers/awards/lifetime-achievement/2014/bar-ness.php.
The purpose of the Excellence in Research Prize and Medal is to elevate the image of research on campus and in the community, said Philip Rinaldi, chief executive officer of Philadelphia Energy Solutions and chair of the NJIT Board of Overseers. As an alumnus and chair of the NJIT Board of Overseers, I am deeply honored to share in special recognition of the talent and dedication that continues to build our universitys stature worldwide.
The award ceremony and premiere of research video profiles of Dr. Mitra and Dr. Bar-Ness will be streamed live Oct. 2, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. ET. For a live streaming link, visit: http://www.njit.edu/excellenceinresearch.
The NJIT Board of Overseers is composed of prominent volunteer alumni and friends of the university, as well as key administrators, including President Joel S. Bloom. It is the governing body for the Foundation at NJIT the universitys fundraising arm and has a joint fiduciary responsibility with the Board of Trustees for stewarding and developing NJITs endowment. Additionally, the board has initiated activities and events that increase NJITs visibility and prestige. These initiatives include establishing the Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal, which was first presented in 2008.
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One of the nations leading public technological universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a top-tier research university that prepares students to become leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. NJITs multidisciplinary curriculum and computing-intensive approach to education provide technological proficiency, business acumen and leadership skills. With an enrollment of more than 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students, NJIT offers small-campus intimacy with the resources of a major public research university. NJIT is a global leader in such fields as solar research, nanotechnology, resilient design, tissue engineering, and cyber-security, in addition to others. NJIT ranks fifth among U.S. polytechnic universities in research expenditures, topping $110 million, and is among the top 1 percent of public colleges and universities in return on educational investment, according to Payscale.com.
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September 25, 2014 // Paul Buckley
Princeton University researchers have developed a new method of increasing the brightness, efficiency and clarity of LEDs used on smartphones and portable electronics as well as for lighting applications.
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The method also claims to improve the picture clarity of LED displays by 400 percent, compared with conventional approaches. In an article published online in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, the researchers described how they accomplished the performance improvements by inventing a technique that manipulates light on a scale smaller than a single wavelength.
"New nanotechnology can change the rules of the ways we manipulate light," said Chou, who has been working in the field for 30 years. "We can use this to make devices with unprecedented performance."
Current LEDs have design challenges; foremost among them is to reduce the amount of light that gets trapped inside the LED's structure. Although they are known for their efficiency, only a small amount of light generated inside an LED actually escapes.
"It is exactly the same reason that lighting installed inside a swimming pool seems dim from outside because the water traps the light," said Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering. "The solid structure of a LED traps far more light than the pool's water."
In fact, a rudimentary LED emits only about two to four percent of the light it generates. The trapped light not only makes the LEDs dim and energy inefficient, it also makes them short-lived because the trapped light heats the LED, which greatly reduces its lifespan.
"A holy grail in today's LED manufacturing is light extraction," Chou said.
Engineers have been working on this problem. By adding metal reflectors, lenses or other structures, they can increase the light extraction of LEDs. For conventional high-end, organic LEDs, these techniques can increase light extraction to about 38 percent. But these light-extraction techniques cause the display to reflect ambient light, which reduces contrast and makes the image seem hazy.
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The hottest new ideas applying nanotechnology to the real world are developing right here at Penn.
On Wednesday night, the Wharton and Engineering schools, the Mack Institute for Innovation Management,and the Penn Center for Innovation held a kickoff event for the third-annual Y-Prize competition . The evening centered around the presentation of this year's Penn faculty-developed technologies. Students competing in Y-Prize will work in teams to choose one of the three technologies to market as a product. They willpresent their ideas to a panel of judges and the winners of the contest willreceive a $5,000 prize as well as an exclusive opportunity to market their technology.
Each year, the contest focuses on a different area of technology this year, nanotechnology.The recent opening of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology has brought this new and exciting field into the spotlight at Penn. With Y-Prize, three Penn professors will have the opportunity to see their ideas take off through student innovation.
Engineering professor Vijay Kumar , a founder of the competition, introduced the event by welcoming students and discussing the goal of the program: innovative cooperation between the brightest mindsof science and business.
Several contributors to the program also made remarks. Engineering professor Kathleen Stebe emphasized the importance of learning through hands-on work, calling the competition a beautiful union of everything that were supposed to be about at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wharton professor Saikat Chaudhuri also spoke about the necessity of integrating ideas from various academic areas. Interdisciplinary application between fields is most necessary to solve the most pressing problems, he said.
The event proceeded with detailed presentations of the three technologies that will be the focus of the competition. This year, students plans will feature ultra-strong material that is only one atom in thickness, batteries that charge in minutes but last for hours and a special adhesive surface that sticks and unsticks on command.
Wharton and Engineeringsenior Bahram Banisadr is competing in Y-Prize for the second time. He believes that the contest fits well with the Penn entrepreneurial mindset.
According to Banisadr, many Penn students tend to pursue only a few specific career paths. The Y-Prize program, he said, allows students to think and learn in a new, original way. Its just one of many very cool opportunities out there.
Student proposals for Y-Prize are due in early November. Finalists will be announced in late November and the winners will be determined in January.
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Whether you like it or not, a lot of your data is probably being stored in the cloud, and that's a trend that's not going to stop. While it is convenient to have your data available from virtually everywhere, it's also prone to security vulnerabilities. Here are some tips on how to keep your cloud-based data private and secure.
If you have a modern smartphone, it's likely any photos and videos you take are backed up to the platform's respective cloud service iCloud, OneDrive, etc. This is meant as a convenience, but at the same time, you might not want the embarrassing photos you take while drunk at the bar saving to the cloud.
If you don't want your photos going to the cloud at all, disable the backup feature on your phone. Each platform is different, and you'll want to consult with the manufacturer's support to find where to toggle off your phone's automatic photo upload feature. Also keep in mind that other photo apps like Instagram might have their own settings you need to toggle off as well.
It's also worth noting that deleting a photo from your phone doesn't mean it's deleted from the cloud, too. In fact, you could find photos that you took years ago backed up to the cloud even if you delete them from your phone's photo gallery. Make sure to log in to your cloud account and delete anything you don't want stored there. This might be tricky with some services, like Facebook, so make sure to read the terms of service to ensure nothing is still backed up even after you delete it
If you have devices on different platforms, keeping tack of all of your photos and videos can be a hassle. To make it easier, set your devices to backup them up to a central location like OneDrive or Dropbox. That way you don't have to bounce between services and make changes individually.
This is important as two-factor authentication (2FA), which is sometimes called two-step verification or multi-factor authentication, adds an extra layer of protection to your online accounts. We covered 2FA previously in this article about alternatives to passwords. What 2FA does is require you to input a second code for the account you're accessing. Typically the second authorization code is texted to your phone or sent to your email address. Google even has the ability to send your second code to a standard land line. Without the second form of authorization, the account cannot be accessed.
Most of the popular cloud services like Google, Dropbox, iCloud, and many others have the ability to set up 2FA. However, it's up to you to enable it as it's not required by default. It's not as convenient as a single password, but it's much more effective for maintaining your privacy and security.
If you're not sure if the site you're accessing has two-factor authorization, check out twofactorauth.org. It displays the sites and services that provide 2FA and is updated regularly.
Setting up two-factor authentication does take a bit of time to get used to and set up, but once you get used to it you'll have the peace of mind knowing your data is much more secure.
A best practice since the beginning of the web is to have strong and complex passwords, or pass phrases. Never use the same password or phrase twice or share them with anyone. A strong password or phrase consists of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters, and the longer the password or phrase, the more secure it is. Also, mark it on your calendar to go through and change passwords every six months or so.
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