Emily Maroni Receives XSEDE EMPOWER Summer Research Funding
Rising junior Emily Maroni was funded by the XSEDE EMPOWER program to complete the research project "Improved Force Microscopy Image Reconstruction through Numerical Simulations and Modeling" this summer!
Solartron Potentiostat Donation Enables Solar Labs and Research
Through the Department of Energy Laboratory Equipment Donation Program, we were donated a Solartron 1287A Potentiostat (original cost $16,500!). The instrument will be used to introduce interdisciplinary solar cell design/characterization activities into undergraduate chemistry and physics labs and undergraduate research. The instrument performs a variety of advanced electrochemical experiments that will help students better characterize solar cells and biosensors they design and fabricate in lab and research.
Machine learning and artificial intelligence tools for undergraduate education
We received a startup allocation of computational resources (estimated market value $1000!) from XSEDE to build AI and machine learning tools for education on the Jetstream Cloud!
This will build on our work last year for the First Year Seminar class AI for Everyone, where we wrote the Wekinator Machine program to connect Wekinator to Google's Teachable Machine.