Earthquakes are avalanches. So are crackling fires, Rice Krispies in a bowl of milk and crumpling pieces of paper. The sounds we hear as crackling are a result of avalanche behavior. Avalanches, as physicists understand them, aren’t made of snow: they are responses to stress.

This Peer Review examines three project teams from the engineering program, each striving to construct an autonomous, independent robot.  By land, by air, and by sea, the robots of this Peer Review display the deligent efforts of dedicated, undergraduate teams.

The painful impact of arthritis caused by a lifetime of wear and tear eventually affects every human body. With no discernable cure, arthritis costs the American economy an estimated annual $128 billion, according to the National Arthritis Foundation. Prof.