Shab celebrated her recent publication in Soft Matter by connecting with the community for a day through Paper2Tree. First she worked with a class at Booker T Washington Elementary School to demonstrate a bit about the science of wear. Then she helped plant a tree to recognize that academic publications have used extensive resources, and […]
Prof. Dunn worked with high school girls attending the Girls Building Awesome Machines (GBAM) camp here at Illinois last week to define tribo-corrosive wear using a system we can all enjoy: the Tootsie Pop! The last line of the classic commercial says that the world may never know “how many licks” it takes to get […]
All the graduate students took turns describing to groups of high school students how a record player works. Then the students were challenged to listen to a song from the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack and match up sound signatures with micrographs of the grooves on the record surface. A groovy time was had! A […]