Security officials are tasked with preventing criminals from smuggling dangerous materials into a country, and detecting nuclear substances has been difficult and costly. Now Northwestern University researchers have developed new devices based on a low-cost material to aid in the detection and identification of radioactive isotopes.

SkySpecs, the first company to offer automated inspection of wind turbine blades which was co-founded by UM Aerospace alumni, Danny Ellis, Tony Brady, and Ben Marchionna, signed a partnership agreement with TEPCO Ventures to deliver SkySpecs’ solutions to the Japanese market.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Anhong Guo is one of Forbes 30 Under 30 for coauthoring a presentation that used Twitter to understand disability accessibility during the pandemic.

Antohony Waas, the Richard A Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Felix W Pawlowski Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, is featured in Aerospace America.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chad Jenkins is quoted in the New York Times discussing the importance of representation when designing A.I. systems.

A remark by Dr. Carlos Cesnik, the director of the Airbus-University of Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft, sparks a discussion at New Atlas about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on not just society as a whole, but especially on the aerospace industry. Will it survive the virus and efforts to combat it? What will the post-COVID aerospace sector look like?

“The iron in our blood comes from supernovae,” says plasma physicist Carolyn Kuranz of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who also studies supernovas in the laboratory. “We’re literally created from stars.”

The University of Pittsburgh highlights the contribution of Inhee Lee, an ECE alum, in the project using Michigan Micro Motes to track monarch butterfly migration.

Irving Langmuir Distinguished University Professor of Chemical Sciences and Engineering Nicholas Kotov is quoted in Wired.

Phys.org re-publishes our piece on how researchers from ECE and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are using the Michigan Micro Mote to track monarch migration in unprecedented ways.

Aerospace Engineering and Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Professor John Foster’s paper, “Plasma-based water purification: Challenges and prospects for the future,” among most highly cited, most highly downloaded articles from Physics of Plasmas

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chris Peikert is quoted in the Wall Street Journal.