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By Jason Maderer Apr 16, 2021 A snake-like robot can now slither its way through water, allowing it to inspect ships, submarines, and underwater infrastructure for damage. Researchers from the Biorobotics Lab in the School of Computer Science’s Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University tested the hardened underwater modular robot snake (HUMRS) last month in the pool, diving the robot through underwater hoops, showing off its precise and smooth swimming, and demonstrating its ease of control. “We can go places that other robots cannot,” says Howie Choset, professor of computer science. “It can snake around and squeeze into hard-to-reach underwater spaces.” Choset and Matt Travers, co-directors of the Biorobotics Lab, led the work. ....
Percent of women among top earners at 130 top research universities Women are 60 percent of all professionals in higher education and have been earning the majority of master’s and doctoral degrees for decades. Yet women represent just 24 percent of the highest-paid faculty members and administrators at 130 leading research universities, according to a new study from Eos Foundation’s Women’s Power Gap Initiative, the American Association of University Women and the WAGE project. Women of color are even more grossly underrepresented, at just 2 percent of top core academic earners. No Excuses “Schools struggling to ‘find’ women and people of color for leadership positions should deeply examine their institutional cultures and seek to systematically change their hiring, retention and advancement practices to more quickly and urgently close the power and pay gaps,” the report says. ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Carnegie Mellon University officials announced Tuesday that the school will delay the start of in-person instruction for the spring semester until Feb. 15. “As part of our continuing (covid-19) mitigation efforts, we have decided to delay the start of in-person instruction by one additional week,” CMU spokesman Jason Maderer said. University officials said the decision was tied to the prevalence of the virus in the region. It marked the second time the Oakland-based research university has adjusted its calendar in an attempt to limit the spread of covid-19. The university originally delayed the start of the spring semester from Jan. 11 to Feb. 1, hoping to avoid the flu season and a winter surge of covid-19 infections. ....
TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Carnegie Mellon University officials on Tuesday issued a harsh statement condemning speech that may have incited last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, as debate over comments by some of its leading scholars raised eyebrows in academic circles across the country. In a letter issued to the university community, a long list of administrators and deans joined CMU President Farnam Jahanian and Provost James Garrett in expressing horror at the deadly attack that left a Capitol Police officer and four rioters, including one who was shot, dead as an angry mob stormed through Washington, seeking to halt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. ....
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