{"id":754,"date":"2013-07-28T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=754"},"modified":"2017-07-28T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T13:06:21","slug":"lab-notes-summer-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2013\/07\/lab-notes-summer-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We Can Work It Out:<\/strong> Robots excel at heavy lifting, repetitive motions, and steady hands. Humans shine at fine motor skills and making decisions based on past experience. How can the two best work together? <a title=\"Gregory Hager\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/faculty\/gregory-hager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Computer scientist Gregory Hager<\/a> is part of a four-university team using a $3.5 million NSF grant to devise ways that humans and robots can colla- borate more efficiently in manufacturing and medical tasks. The project is part of the <a title=\"National Robotics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503641&amp;org=CISE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Robotics Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concussion Prevention:<\/strong> Using a new computer-based technique combined with a model of the head, <a title=\"K.T. Ramesh\" href=\"https:\/\/me.jhu.edu\/faculty\/kaliat-t-ramesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mechanical Engineering\u2019s K.T. Ramesh<\/a> and his colleagues aim to examine hockey and football players to discern damage to axons, the tiny fibers that carry information between brain cells. \u201cThis kind of injury may take weeks to manifest,\u201d Ramesh says. \u201cBut if you can tell right away, you may be able to get a crucial head start on treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understanding Tumor Growth:<\/strong> <a title=\"Rachel Karchin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.jhu.edu\/faculty_staff\/rachel-karchin-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biomedical Engineering\u2019s Rachel Karchin<\/a> uses computational modeling to identify gene mutations that drive tumor growth. Recently, she received a three-year NSF Advances in Biological Informatics Innovation Grant to develop a new method to model higher order mutation interactions using a combination of network models, evolutionary genetics, and protein sequence analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flux Flare:<\/strong> A principle known as flux freezing dictates that magnetic field lines in electrically conducting plasmas are transported by the flowing plasma. Yet researchers have noticed that in the case of solar flares that doesn\u2019t always hold true. Now they know why. Led by Applied Mathematics and Statistics Professor Gregory Eyink, a team used complex computer modeling to conclude that the long-held physics principle of flux freezing doesn\u2019t always apply when turbulence is present. His collaborators included Randal Burns, Charles Meneveau, and Alexander Szalay.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lab-notes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-755 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lab-notes.jpg\" alt=\"Lab notes\" width=\"270\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a>Fly Like a \u2026 Hawkmoth?<\/strong> When <a title=\"Noah cowan\" href=\"https:\/\/me.jhu.edu\/faculty\/noah-cowan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mechanical engineer Noah Cowan<\/a> watches a moth hovering above a blossom he sees an incredible flying machine with something to teach us about aerodynamics and flight control. He and a team from University of Washington have developed a mathematical model analyzing how the insect throws around its bullet-shaped abdomen to redirect force provided by its wings. Cowan\u2019s student Alican Demir has already used this data to improve flight and maneuverability control in a flying robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research briefs from around the Whiting School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[118,392,1638,1999],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-ideas","tag-gregory-hager","tag-noah-cowan","tag-rachel-karchin","tag-k-t-ramesh","issue-summer-2013"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lab Notes - JHU Engineering Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2013\/07\/lab-notes-summer-13\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lab Notes - JHU Engineering Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Research briefs from around the Whiting School.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2013\/07\/lab-notes-summer-13\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JHU Engineering Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-28T12:41:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-28T13:06:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/lab-notes.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"270\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"237\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abby Lattes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abby Lattes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/lab-notes-summer-13\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/lab-notes-summer-13\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abby Lattes\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0244393be370fbc3ead8ec26062e9742\"},\"headline\":\"Lab Notes\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-28T12:41:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-28T13:06:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/lab-notes-summer-13\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":374,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/2013\\\/07\\\/lab-notes-summer-13\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/engineering.jhu.edu\\\/magazine-archive\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/lab-notes.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gregory Hager\",\"Noah Cowan\",\"Rachel Karchin\",\"K.T. 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