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  • Removal of Cosmic Ray Impacts on the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument

    NASA’s next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is designed to research the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astronomy. The Coronagraph Instrument on the telescope will allow astronomers to directly image planets in orbit around host stars by reducing the glare from the host star. However, with photons of light constantly…

  • Carbon Export in Drake Passage: Observations from Ocean Gliders

    Author: Taylor CasonUniversity of California, Los AngelesMentors: Professor Andrew Thompson, Mar Flexas, and Lily DoveResnick Sustainability Institute, California Institute of TechnologyEditor: Bertha Mireles Introduction The ocean plays a vital role in the climate system because of its ability to store up to sixty times the carbon present in the atmosphere, exhibiting an exchange between the…

  • Identifying Optimal Proteins by Their Structure Using Graph Neural Networks

    Proteins are the molecules of life, essential for a wide range of functions from protecting the body from viruses to building the structures of all living things. Protein engineering has been used to repurpose these machines, and proteins can be optimized for new, valuable functions for technological, scientific, and medical applications. New approaches to protein…

  • Interview with Professor Eric Mazumdar

    Interviewer: Hannah X. Chen Could you start by sharing a brief overview of your research and its applications? I work at the intersection of machine learning and economics, and the motivation is really thinking about how we use machine learning algorithms in the real world, and what happens when we actually use them. In the…

  • Interview with Professor Frances Arnold

    Interviewer: Maggie Sui Biography Professor Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at Caltech and a 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Her research focuses on using directed evolution to create new enzyme function. Prof. Arnold received a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and received a…