Inventing Tomorrow| Spring
1999
Cover story
Aurora
4: Racing with the sun
The starting gun for the 1999 World
Solar Challenge is months away, but a team of Institute
of Technology students is already gearing-up—minus
an internal combustion engine—to race a solar-powered
car clear across the Australian desert. Full
story
Features
Rethinking
mathematics
Contrary to popular opinion, the School of
Mathematics is home to some of the University's most innovative
programs, colorful personalities, and perplexing research
problems. Full story
Rock
of ages
The story behind Plumb Bob's Blarney Stone.
Full story
Management
material
IT's MOT program prepares engineers and
scientists for management. Full story Chi-U-Mah!
Chicago
alumni reach out with Minnesota spirit. Full story
Pollution
prevention pioneer
Joseph Ling revolutionized industrial
environmental practices around the globe. Full story
Sharper
imagery
Associate Professor Guillermo Sapiro is developing
new image processing technologies that may revolutionize
processes from military tactics to magnetic resonance
imaging to moviemaking. Full story
Shrinking
circuits and expanding horizons
Associate Professor
Rhonda Franklin Drayton is one of the first two University
faculty members to earn the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers, a top national honor.
Full story
Regular columns
From
the dean
Regents Professor H. Ted Davis
Full story
Investing
in IT
Opportunities and impact Full
story
Retrospect
People
and events that shaped our world Full story
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