EcoCar team, 5 education tech trends, treatment for brain injuries and more

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 2:15pm (updated Monday, May 9, 2016 - 1:48pm)

Ohio State's EcoCar team turning growly Camaro into almost silent hybrid

The Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 26, 2015

Ohio State University’s EcoCar 3 team, which just took delivery of a new Camaro, is turning it into a plug-in hybrid…

 

5 tech trends that could supercharge education in 2016

EdTech, Dec. 28, 2015

The technologies of tomorrow are already making headway into education, and others are poised for mass distribution in 2016…

 

UT research points to possible treatment for brain injuries

UT News, Dec. 22, 2015

University of Toledo research on a promising treatment for traumatic brain injuries coincides with the public’s growing interest in football-related injuries…

 

Newly developed liquid crystal elastomer material could enable advanced sensors, Kent State researchers say

Kent State University, Dec. 22, 2015

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of fascinating things, especially in the fields of optics, photonics, telecommunications and medicine…

 

Northwestern University engineering students fix common glitch in digitization of books published before 1700

Library Journal, Dec. 28, 2015

Digitizing books published before 1700 has created an aesthetic as well as quite pragmatic “black-dot problem” in translated texts, with the word “love,” for example, showing up as “lo•e”…