WPI Research is the research magazine of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It contains news and features about graduate research in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering, along with notes about new grants, books, and faculty achievements.
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> NEW BOOKS BY WPI FACULTY A paper by Eduardo Torres-Jara, assistant professor of computer science and robotics engineering, won the Industrial Robot Innovation Award at the International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots in Australia in July 2013. The paper, "Caminante: A Platform for Sensitive Walking," was co-authored by Vadim Chernyak, Ennio Clarretti, and Stephen Nestinger. Craig Shue, assistant professor of computer science, won the Best Paper Award at the 2013 Workshop on Research for Insider Threat, part of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco, for "Reporting Attacks via a Covert Ethernet Channel," which he co-authored with David Muchene and Klevis Luli. > INVITED LECTURES Tanja Dominko, associate professor of biology and biotechnology, delivered an invited lecture at a meeting of the board of directors of the Rosalind Franklin Society, held in Washington, D.C., in December 2012. She was also appointed director of the Center for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. Christopher Larsen, professor of mathematical sciences, gave an invited "selected lecture" at the International Workshop on "Multi-Scale Modeling and Characterization of Innovative Materials and Structures," held in Cetara, Italy, in May 2013. Reeta Rao, associate professor of biology and biotechnology, was an invited speaker at the Global Biotech Congress, held in Boston in June 2013. Her topic was "New Routes Toward the Development of Novel Antifungal Therapeutics." Rao has also been appointed to the editorial board of PLOS ONE, an international, peerreviewed, open-access journal. PRINCIPLES OF WIRELESS ACCESS AND LOCALIZATION Kaveh Pahlavan and Prashant Krishnamurthy John Wiley and Sons, 2013 Co-authored by Pahlavan, professor of electrical and computer engineering and founder of WPI's Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, the book provides a unifed treatment of issues related to all wireless access and wireless localization techniques. SOLDIER FOR CHRIST John Zeugner Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013 In this novel by Zeugner, professor emeritus of history and a recipient of a Discovery Grant for fction from the National Endowment for the Arts, a young rector's assistant's faith is tested by his discoveries of the connections his church in Kobe, Japan, has to Japanese atrocities in Manchuria during World War II. SPIRITUALITY: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT MATTERS Roger S. Gottlieb Oxford University Press, 2012 Winner of a silver medal in the 2013 Nautilus Awards and honored as one of the best books of 2012 by the website Spirituality and Practice, this volume by Gottlieb, professor of philosophy, explores spirituality from traditional religion to the present and reveals the common thread that joins people of all faiths with those who are spiritual but not religious. THE SUMMITS OF MODERN MAN Peter H. Hansen Harvard University Press, 2013 Hansen, associate professor of history, chronicles the frst ascents of the major Alpine mountain peaks and Mount Everest to demonstrate how mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for man's conquest of nature, an idea that retains its currency even as global warming creates ambivalence about our domination of the natural world. Worcester Polytechnic Institute > 47