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When learning informs teaching

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Professor Sachin Sapatnekar receives 2026 ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award

Award recognizes Sapatnekar's groundbreaking contributions to EDA that have significantly advanced the ability to design high-performance integrated systems.

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Hangyu Zhang and Zaifu Zhan awarded doctoral dissertation fellowships

Zhang is working on developing high performance placement methods for chip design, and Zhan is working on developing large language model methods for accurate natural language processing in biomedical settings

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Professor Mehmet Akçakaya elevated to Fellow of the ISMRM

Akçakaya's research has consistently focused on improving patients' MRI experience while providing precise results.

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Dystrophin and utrophin handle muscle stress in different ways with implications for a leading Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy

Fundamentally differing responses by dystrophin and utrophin to mechanical stress complicates treatment strategies.

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Professor Jian-Ping Wang to lead center for spintronics innovation

The new spin technology center will focus on developing new magnetics-based technologies

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Spotlight: Navametha Ramkumar

Ramkumar, winner of an ECE teaching assistant award shares her experience as a graduate student and TA, and her academic and professional interests.

 

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