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Scientists at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University have developed a new material that can undulate and therefore propel itself forward under the influence of light. To achieve this, the scientists clamp a strip of this polymer material in a rectangular frame. When illuminated, it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world’s first machine to convert light directly into walking, simply using one fixed light source. The researchers, including Professor Robin Selinger of Á½ÐÔÉ«Îçҹ’s Liquid Crystal Institute® ...

Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ University at Trumbull officially announced the reinstatement of its campus athletic programs.  This fall, Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Trumbull will be home to women’s and men’s cross country teams. It is the first competitive sport the school has offered since 1992 when it had basketball, volleyball and golf teams. The teams will compete against area colleges as a student organization under the leadership of volunteer head coach Bill Hess.  Lance Grahn, Ph.D., dean and chief administrative officer of Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Trumbull, hopes cross country and other sports teams will soon compete a...

While hundreds of applicants hoped to be selected to participate in the Sirenland Writers Conference, only a handful of them were chosen to attend the week-long event in Positano, Italy. James Winter, an English lecturer on the Á½ÐÔÉ«ÎçÒ¹ Salem Campus, was one of 10 applicants selected for the fiction writing workshop last spring. To apply for the conference, Winter had to submit qualifying fiction writing. The conference limited its selection to 10 writers for each of three workshops in mixed-genre, fiction and memoir writing.   “In submitting work to my peers, I was doing ex...