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Michigan Tech is one of eight universities selected to participate in a competition to design, build and test a fully autonomous passenger vehicle.
The AutoDrive Challenge is hosted by General Motors and SAE International.
The students will take a Chevy Bolt, outfit it with self-driving technology and test it on an urban driving course.
They have three years to complete the project. Read more here.
Another Michigan Tech student will be reaching for the stars in a much different way.
Physics PhD student Chad Brisbois is one of 53 graduate students in the U.S. to earn a place in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.
Brisbois is heading to the Los Alamos National Laboratory for several months later this year as part of the DOE program.
He will be collaborating with researchers who run a specialized gamma-ray observatory called the High Altitude Water Cherenkov in Mexico. Read more here.
