Championed by Rep. Jim McGovern, Sen. Ed Markey, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the congressionally directed funding will be used to recruit women and underrepresented minority students, and expand our robotics program through outreach to minority-serving high schools and colleges.

In projects with Distinguished Professor Prashant Shenoy and Assistant Professor Cameron Musco, Lechowicz '22 worked to design intelligent systems that sense and manage indoor air quality, and studied how social networks cause opinion polarization.

Assistant Professor Jie Xiong has been granted an NSF CAREER funding award for the continuation of his project to revolutionize wireless sensing and enable new sensing applications, including water conservation and the detection of disaster survivors.