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2013 Press Coverage
July 2013
NPR Morning Edition: All Charged Up: Engineers Create A Battery Made Of Wood
Fox 5 TV: Summer fun at the University of Maryland: Women in Engineering
Wall Street Journal: Tavis Smiley and UMD Announce $75000 Social Innovation Challenge
The New Yorker: The Flying Man: Human Powered Helicopter
Popular Mechanics: Finally! A Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize
ASEE First Bell Headlines: University Of Maryland Engineers Create Battery Made Of Wood
Fire Engineering: Resensys' Technology Prevents Bridge and Building Collapses
June 2013
UPI: U.S. researchers create 'green' battery using wood
ACS: An environmentally friendly battery made from wood
Science Daily: Environmentally Friendly Battery Made from Wood
Design & Trend: Green Battery: Wood-Origin Nanobatteries Breakthrough
WUSA TV 9: Surviving Hurricane Force Winds At UMd Wind Tunnel
NBC TV 4: Storm Team 4 Faces Hurricane Strength Winds at UMd
WBAL TV 11: Kim Dacey Braves Wind Tunnel
The Times of India: Soon, battery made of wood
The Morning Call: Cyclist Colleen Gulick races on her path to med school
CBS Evening News, "On the Road": Students defy gravity in human-powered helicopter
Baltimore Sun: Robo Raven makes aviation history
MSN Now: New Robot Bird So Realistic, Other Birds Attack It
The Daily Mail: The Ultimate Bird of Prey? Robo Raven
Live Science: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's... Robo Raven!
May 2013
IEEE Spectrum: UMD's Robo Raven Attacked by a Hawk
Gizmag: Robo Raven gets in a flap with real-life hawk
NBC News: See the Robotic Raven Dive and Flip
Huffington Post: 'Robo Raven' Is So Realistic It Got Attacked By A Real Hawk
In the Capital: UMD Engineering Students Take the Coolest Final Exam Ever
Voice of America: Students Aim for Aviation History with Human-Powered Helicopter
Helicopters Magazine: Smithsonian Beckons for Helicopter Development Teams
April 2013
Wall Street Journal: Flight of Fancy: The Sky's the Limit for Team That Rises to the Occasion - UMD's Gamera Human-Powered Helicopter Team
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Popular Mechanics: Two Teams, One Dream: The Human-Powered Helicopter
Wired Magazine: How to Fly a Human-Powered Helicopter
Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Prizing Success in Aerospace Innovation
Associated Press: University of Maryland students vie for $250K prize for human-powered helicopter flight
CBS News: 25 State Schools with the Happiest Freshmen – UMD #9 in Freshmen Retention
Washington Post: Could an immigration overhaul keep more STEM graduates in the Washington area?
Medical Xpress: Study finds analysis of many species required to better understand the brain
CTV News: Terps Racing Formula SAE Team
March 2013
Mercury News: The Clark School's James Green and his UMD Coursera course featured
Baltimore Sun: UMD students fly human-powered helicopter, try for $250,000 prize
Washington Post: U-Md. students try to win $250,000 prize for hovering in a man-powered helicopter
Wired: Human-Powered Helicopter Attempts Prize-Winning Flight Today
NBC News: Human-powered helicopter closes on Sikorsky Prize
Sky News: Pedal-Power Helicopter Heads For $250k Prize
February 2013
Korean-American Jeong Kim Tapped to Lead Future Creation & Science Ministry in South Korea
Quantum Dot Enables Nanoprecision Imaging, featured in EE Times India
January 2013
Clark School's Advanced Distance Learning Technologies Featured in Higher Ed Tech Decisions Magazine
Alumnus George Laurer, Inventor of the UPC Bar Code, Featured in NY Times Magazine
Gamera is featured in the January issue of Air & Space Magazine.
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