We’re barraged by information—what will happen when it’s too much?
Sanjeev Khudanpur, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Center for Language and Speech Processing Information overload. That’s indeed what…
Research & Development
New Provost An Engineer at Heart
Kristina Johnson’s engineering path seems as though it was destined. Her father and grandfather were both electrical engineers for the…
Diagnosing Cancer By the Numbers
If you’re trying to create a diagnostic test for cancer, you’d expect that the more information you consider, the better….
Kudos: West Garners National Medal of Technology
In 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler revolutionized the field of sound technology when they invented the electret microphone, found…
New Paths of Excellence
On first meeting, Elliot McVeigh’s laid-back demeanor comes through immediately. But don’t be fooled. It’s a serious kind of laid-back,…
A MacArthur Fellowship for Ruth DeFries
Ruth DeFries can see the forest through the trees, or more precisely, through satellite data. DeFries, PhD ’81, has spent…
A Hospital Head Who Listens
On a recent afternoon after receiving an award for corporate leadership from the Greater Dallas Asian-American Chamber of Commerce—one of…
New “front door”
The Homewood campus debuted its new “front door” on the evening of October 27, 2007, when the Alonzo G. and…
First or Not, Maryland Hall a Gem
In the beginning, there was Gilman Hall—or was it Maryland Hall? History grants Gilman Hall status as Homewood campus’s first…