Tag: Design
How a professor learned to bring compassion to engineering and design
Tahira Reid, Purdue University
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tahira Reid leads a lab...
Why being stuck at home – and unable to hang out...
Korydon Smith, University at Buffalo; Kelly Hayes McAlonie, University at Buffalo, and Rebecca Rotundo, University at Buffalo
While the pandemic has caused thousands of small...
A dismantled post office destroys more than mail service
Patty Heyda, Washington University in St Louis
The U.S. Postal Service is under threat of collapse and privatization. This comes after years of federal political...
Making the most of a tree epidemic
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell University and Leslie Lok, Cornell University
A large portion of North America’s 8.7 billion ash trees are now infested by a beetle...
Should architecturally significant low-income housing be preserved?
Ashima Krishna, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and Kerry Traynor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
This past...
If you’re not getting enough nature during the lockdown, try bringing...
Kevin Nute, University of Hawaii
Pandemics change everything, including the way we design buildings.
After the 1918 Spanish flu and the scourge of tuberculosis, there was...
Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions...
Margaret Birney Vickery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amid the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people see the process of restarting society...
Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar
Sam Goree, Indiana University
Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are...
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How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first...
Rodger I. Thompson, University of Arizona
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on the 24th of April, 30 years ago. It’s an impressive milestone especially as...
