Envisioning Excellence

Envisioning a transdisciplinary university.

Achieving social and economic growth requires collaboration, especially in global health. If universities are to improve health globally, they will need to train students and to support faculty who can effectively collaborate with those from other disciplines and cultures.

Envisioning the Material World

Efforts to understand human vision have largely focused on our abilities to perceive the geometric properties of objects and have neglected the perception of materials. However correctly perceiving materials is at least as important as perceiving object geometry, and human vision allows us to tell if objects are hard or soft, smooth or rough, clean or dirty, fresh or spoiled, and dead or alive....

Design Envisions Envisioning Design

Envisioning Smart Building Botnets

A building automation system (BAS) is the IT equipment within a building that monitors and controls the building (e.g., measuring temperature in a room to configure the heating level within the same room). We discuss the potential and the use of botnets in the context of BAS. Our botnet concept and scenario is novel in the sense that it takes advantage of the phyiscal capabilities of a building...

Envisioning the Invisible

To Be the Remainder “What is it like to be the remainder?” I answer this question with a mime sketch in a performance created specifically to motivate thinking about mathematics. I play the part of a clown who, almost compulsively, divides objects into two groups as they emerge from a suitcase. Repeatedly, one object is left: the remainder of the division. The pantomime touches on a universal h...