Science Corner
Featured Columns by Faculty in the Roanoke Times
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Webster Santos: Exercise in a pill , redirectTweaking the molecules by adding and removing pieces like a Lego, we can plug the enzyme or transporter to block its signal. We have been successful in demonstrating that our strategy works in both cells and animal models of kidney disease.
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Patrick Huber: Neutrinos and nuclear weapons , redirectIn addition to the title of a horror movie in the 1980s, Poltergeist was the name of the first experiment trying to prove the existence of neutrinos.
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Ryan M. Pollyea: Reaching for net zero with underground CO2 storage , redirectClimate change is melting glaciers, increasing sea level, extending hurricane season, and intensifying wildfires.
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Michael A. Robert: Mosquito-borne diseases, climate, and mathematics , redirectFor those of us in Southwest Virginia, mosquitoes are a nuisance to outdoor activities and only rarely cause greater concern.
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Sue Ge: The Groundwork of Cooperation , redirectA little bit of competition, especially if it’s healthy, never hurts anybody. However, the secret sauce that makes the world go around is cooperation.
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Jungmeen Kim-Spoon: Children can learn to overcome adversity, neglect, or worse , redirectWhen it comes to “human resilience” people often perceive it as something that someone is born with. However, this perception is not the full story.
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Chinmay Katke and Nadir Kaplan: Unlocking the potential of hydrogels for flexible robots , redirectThe future holds promise for robots to actively collaborate in diverse aspects of human endeavor, transforming industries.
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Tina Dura: Revealing clues of Earth's turbulent past , redirectThe detective work required to reconstruct the history of past earthquakes is conducted by coastal paleoseismologists. Cascadia’s coastlines act as natural seismographs, recording the footprints of past earthquakes and tsunamis through various geological clues.
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Dimitrios Nikolopoulos: A way to democratize AI , redirectDoing AI in the small is valuable to many people who do not have the means to use and benefit from Big Tech AI. It might also be safer if people do not have to share their data with Big Tech companies for the sake of building new AI models that benefit only a few. Miniaturizing AI can be about rural communities that do not have good broadband internet access or the latest personal devices.
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Sudipta Sarangi: A little bit of game theory for decision-making , redirectGame theory, a branch of applied mathematics, has its origins in parlor games, but is widely used today in many disciplines such as economics and computer science. It is the systematic study of any rule-governed situation, where the outcome depends on the actions of multiple people. Examples range from simple games like Tic-Tac-Toe and Rock, Paper, Scissors all the way to mega-companies like Coke and Pepsi competing to sell their products.
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