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  • image of soundwaves over crocheted objects
    Unstable Design Lab researchers Jordan Wirfs-Brock, a PhD candidate, and Mikhaila Friske, a PhD student, both in information science, will present their interactive, hands-on, textile-based experience, Murmuring Yarnscapes, in the ATLAS Black Box, beginning Dec. 2.
  • Two arms showing a Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØtattoo on one arm and numbers on another, illuminated by UV light.
    Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and his research team are collaborating with the Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØAnschutz Medical Campus to test a tattoo ink that’s completely invisible—and could lower the risk of skin cancer, much like a “permanent sunscreen."
  • Logo for ACORN
    Shaz Zamore is the faculty director of ATLAS Community Outreach and Resource Network (ACORN), a new outreach group  that connects ATLAS research and STEM education to those who can’t easily access it.
  • Animated view of a castle with trees around it, as well as showing where variables are chosen in the VR world of Popo.
    Julia Uhr, an ATLAS PhD student and researcher in the ACME Lab, has created a fun 3D visual programming language that empowers novice coders to create customized VR environments while inside those environments.
  • Two high school students look up from their computers at the T9hacks event for high school students.
    T9Hacks partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify from groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.
  • Aileen Pierce and Jules Pierce
    Aileen Pierce, associate director of undergraduate programs and teaching associate professor, and Jules Pierce, a software engineer at Facebook, share their perspective and experiences as women in tech spanning two generations.
  • hapticbots
    In virtual reality, when you reach out and try to touch a visible surface, it normally isn't there. Using a swarm of Rubik's Cube-sized, shape-changing robots, the illusion becomes physical.
  • Two women at T9Hacks smiling and looking at computer screen
    T9Hacks has partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify as female, non-binary or from other groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.
  • Future textile heirlooms hanging on a line
    Sasha de Koninck, a member of ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design Lab, presented her future heirloom project, The Research Lab of Ambiguous Futurology, at the "Making and Doing" exhibition at the 4S hybrid conference, held Oct. 6-9, both in Toronto and virtually.

  • Andrea Fautheree Marquz project with three screens all on their own loops and framed by Coors beer cans
    Andrea Fautheree Márquez's thesis project, "Chicana Light," explores the Chicano civil rights movement in Colorado. Fautheree Márquez used projection mapping to create the installation of three videos playing on their own loops.
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