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School of Physics Professor Ignacio Taboada has been awarded over $1.5 million in funding to build P-ONE’s sensor trigger system.

Ignacio Taboada has been awarded an NSF grant to build a sensor trigger system for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment — a powerful neutrino detector that will be built more than 2,600 meters under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, providing a new window into neutrino astrophysics.

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Researchers combine deep learning with advanced sequencing techniques to predict how antibodies interact with antigens.

New College of Sciences ARCS Scholars (from left to right): Alivia Eng, Marrissa Izykowicz, Zach Mobille, and John Pederson.

Highlighting their potential to make significant contributions to science and technology, four College of Sciences Ph.D. candidates have earned the prestigious Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Scholar Award. The new scholars join three returning College of Sciences ARCS recipients.

D2B2 was created almost entirely by artificial intelligence.

The School of Psychology, led by Chair Tansu Celikel, has launched Deep Dive into Brain and Behavior (D2B2), an AI-generated podcast that distills the School's latest research in psychology and neuroscience into engaging, easy-to-understand episodes. Using Google's NotebookLM, the podcast aims to make complex scientific findings accessible to a wide audience, from students to experts, while maintaining accuracy through author reviews.

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Dana Randall, a professor in the School of Computer Science, and Jacob Calvert, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, have formulated a theory of rattling that answers these fundamental questions. 

Alexander Dunn (Credit: Caltech)

School of Mathematics Assistant Professor Alexander Dunn has been honored for his contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly his work solving the Kummer-Patterson Conjecture on the distribution of cubic Gauss sums.