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...Ridge National Laboratory wasn't exactly a glamorous start. When Thundat arrived in 1991, fresh from postdoctoral training, he was put to work in a dank bomb shelter that had been converted into a lab. His task was to use an atomic force microscope to get a "snapshot" of the DNA molecule. All he seemed to be getting, though, was a headache. The microscope, which detects the con-tours of molecules by dragging a flexible sliver of coated silicon over them, was malfunctioning. After puzzling through his problem for months, Thundat realized one rainy day during a rare midday foray...
...headquarters.) Teradyne delivers Imagen technology to manufacturing companies in Asia and the U.S. by integrating it into Teradyne test equipment that scans circuit boards for flaws. Simply stated, a Teradyne machine takes pictures of the circuit board and hands over the image to Imagen software, which scours the snapshot for imperfections. This business allows Imagen to make a profit, though for Lipson, there have been other rewards. She met her future husband and Imagen co-founder Pawan Singha during their graduate days at M.I.T. Today he serves on Imagen's scientific advisory board while working as an M.I.T. professor...
...Assessment data is only a snapshot. Information from a variety of sources, including student surveys and data collected from mental health service providers, also indicates that the number of college students experiencing mental health problems has increased substantially over the last decade to the point that Harvard, like other universities, must struggle to keep up with the needs of students...
...week later, the Harvard defense is still grappling with the fact that those numbers were not the product of the Crimson offensive juggernaut that has made mincemeat of opposing squads but a snapshot of the damage Princeton inflicted last Saturday...
...Floridian. Asked a woman from New Jersey: "Was that a picture of Cash or of another musical icon, Ludwig van Beethoven?" And a Rhode Islander offered her thanks "for the wonderful cover portrait of Cash. It is as beautiful as a Rembrandt etching and as welcome as a snapshot from a friend...