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Sometimes the process of making and creating loses its fun streak, so why not put on a 24-hour hackathon that awarded the weird, wild, and possibly destructive nature of making and engineering?
Assistant professor Michael Rivera is one of 18 joining the 2026 RIO Faculty Fellow cohort.
Grace Leslie noted that "for people living with Alzheimers or dementia, both anecdotal and experimental evidence point to the durability of music in the brain."- Computational Foundations I teaches code as a technical and expressive skill.
- Living Matter Lab designs nanorobots for DNA production to speed biomedical research.
- ATLAS PhD student studies how brain activity syncs when musicians perform together.
Hye-Young Jo of computer science and the ATLAS Institute will be using the funding to research human-computer interactions.- ATLAS PhD candidate Casey Hunt brings STEM learning to local classrooms with Lego robotics.
ATLAS facultyled seminar challenges first-year engineering students to explore the power of language in a digital age.- Cereal-fueled celebration draws gamers of all ages to explore the frontiers of game design.