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From Cleaning Offices to Designing EV Charging Stations

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Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university. she says. “So

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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During COVID-19, companies, volunteers, universities, and concerned citizens (including me) began to create a system for networking. It turns out the COVID-19 epidemic played an important role in resolving many of the issues associated with 3D printing before the war.

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A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

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William Clarke/University of Virginia. In 2007, our group at the University of Virginia proposed using computer-simulation experiments instead. Together with our colleagues at the University of Padua, in Italy, we created a computer model of glucose-insulin dynamics that operated on 300 virtual subjects with type 1 diabetes.

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