“URM Candidates Are Encouraged to Apply”

Models and Experiments in Bioengineering: Why Synergies Are Encouraged

Does the future of bioengineering lie in models or experiments? The long-standing debate on how and how much experimental and theoretical research in our field should cooperate can shape the future. This debate means often a choice, early in the bioengineer’s career. A bioengineer may prefer to address scientific questions based on experimental tests, or on computational and theoretical analyse...

Are Judges Morally Obligated to Apply the Law?

Drift Capacity of Urm Walls: Are Analytical Models an Alternative to Empirical Approaches?

Code design of unreinforced masonry (URM) brick buildings is based on elastic analysis, which requires as input, among others, estimates of the in-plane drift capacity at the considered limit states. Current approaches assess the drift capacity of URM walls by means of empirical models with most codes relating the drift capacity to the failure mode and wall slenderness. Comparisons with experim...

Seniors encouraged to explore service options

A fair show casing d ifferen t v o lu n te e r p ro g ra m s w ill be held at the LaFortune Ballroom on T h u rsd ay b eg in n in g a t 7 p.m. All students are encouraged to attend and explore different possib ilities of p o st-g rad u a te service, according to Mary Ann Roemer, coordinator of senior v o lu n te e r p ro g ra m s fo r th e C e n te r fo r S ocia l C o n ce rn s (C.S.C.). More t...

Are Peer Reviewers Encouraged to Use Reporting Guidelines? A Survey of 116 Health Research Journals

BACKGROUND Pre-publication peer review of manuscripts should enhance the value of research publications to readers who may wish to utilize findings in clinical care or health policy-making. Much published research across all medical specialties is not useful, may be misleading, wasteful and even harmful. Reporting guidelines are tools that in addition to helping authors prepare better manuscrip...