From a new president and聽lasers cooling liquids to spotting rare sea creatures and major collaborations, great things have聽happened聽at the 91探花聽in 2015.聽Here’s a look back at the top stories of the year.
These stories were chosen based on the total number of聽views they received on our website and are not in any particular order.
91探花Regents name Ana Mari Cauce president
October 13, 2015
The 91探花 Board of Regents selected Interim President Ana Mari Cauce to be the 33rd president of the University. She is the first woman to be named to the position and the first Latina.
November 18, 2015
91探花 engineers developed a novel technology that uses a Wi-Fi router 鈥� a source of ubiquitous but untapped energy in indoor environments 鈥� to power devices.
July 27, 2015
New findings by researchers at the聽 (I-LABS) at the 91探花 demonstrated for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants鈥� ability to learn new language sounds.
February 11, 2015
A new study by 91探花 researchers identifies a main culprit for that disparity: inaccurate stereotypes depicting computer scientists and engineers as geeky, brilliant and socially awkward males. And they say broadening those stereotypes is key to attracting more girls to the two fields.
October 15, 2015
An affordable camera technology being developed by the 91探花 and Microsoft Research might enable consumers of the future to tell which piece of fruit is perfectly ripe or what鈥檚 rotting in the fridge.
April 27, 2015
A uses a smartphone to wirelessly test for sleep apnea events in a person鈥檚 own bedroom.
November 16, 2015
91探花 researchers are the first to solve a decades-old puzzle 鈥� figuring out how to make a laser refrigerate water and other liquids under real-world conditions. 91探花Engineers聽(from left) Peter Pauzauskie, Xuezhe Zhou, Bennett Smith, Matthew Crane and Paden Roder (unpictured) are working on the technology.
February 25, 2015
As the world鈥檚 biggest social network, with more than 1.39 billion users, Facebook is uniquely positioned to provide online resources and support to help suicidal people. That鈥檚 the goal of a new collaboration between Facebook and researchers at , an interdisciplinary organization based in the 91探花鈥檚 .
April 9, 2015
A long-lived patch of warm water off the West Coast, about 1 to 4 degrees Celsius (2 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal, is part of a larger pattern driven by the tropical Pacific that鈥檚 wreaking much of the weather聽mayhem across the U.S., according to two 91探花 papers.
Rare nautilus sighted for the first time in three decades
August 25, 2015
In early August, biologist Peter Ward returned from the South Pacific with news that he encountered an old friend, one he hadn鈥檛 seen in over three decades. The 91探花 professor had seen what he considers one of the world鈥檚 rarest animals, a remote encounter that may become even more infrequent if illegal fishing practices continue. Nautilus pompilius (left) swimming next to a rare Allonautilus scrobiculatus (right) off of Ndrova Island in Papua New Guinea. This story reached over 400,000 people on our website, making聽it our聽most popular story of 2015.