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Professor emerita of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, the number one ranked ceramic art Master’s program in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Currier was recently named first-place recipient of a 2017 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Her sculptures are represented in numerous private and public collections, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Sedalia, Missouri; Musée des Arts Decoratifs de Montréal; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyung-ju, South Korea; and Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Beginning in 2009, Currier has collaborated with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create unique ceramic tiles for interior walls. Her first commission, La Stanza di Linea, is a 14 x 40-foot wall in the Choral Room in the Miller Performing Arts Center at Alfred University. Incorporating three different tiles to create the pattern, the tiles were mounted to the wall utilizing Boston Valley’s unique clip system. Next, BKSK, the architectural firm that designed 688 Broadway, a 14-unit luxury apartment building in New York City’s NOHO neighborhood, chose one of Currier’s Boston Valley Terra Cotta tiles for installation in the entryway.

Italian Elon Musk's run was short, though — Arbuckle changed his name and profile photo after just five glorious days. 

Quarter to four in the morning. There’s nobody in the shuk—the Mahaneh Yehudah market in Jerusalem—nobody, that is, except Russell, a Zionist who has his ovens up and running nice and hot.

Building on our previous work using optical tracking technologies to interactively steer real-time molecular simulations (31), Fig. 1 (bottom) shows the framework that we have developed to interface the HTC Vive with rigorous real-time molecular simulation algorithms, which we henceforth refer to as the “iMD VR app.” Two optically tracked researchers are shown [each wearing a VR head-mounted display (HMD) and holding two small wireless controllers that function as atomic “tweezers”] manipulating the real-time MD of a C60 molecule. As shown in movie S1, the researchers can easily “grab” individual C60 atoms and manipulate their real-time dynamics to pass the C60 back and forth between each other. This is possible and immediately intuitive because the real-time C60 simulation and its associated ball-and-stick visual representation are perfectly co-located—that is, the interaction site in 3D physical space is exactly the interaction site in 3D simulation space. The cloud architecture provides further benefits: Because each VR client has access to global position data of all other users, any user can see through his/her headset a co-located visual representation of all other users at the same time. To date, our available resources have allowed us to simultaneously co-locate six users in the same room within the same simulation. The interaction shown in movie S1, in which multiple users in the same room are able to easily pass a simulated molecule between themselves (or, for example, collaboratively tie a knot in a protein) as if it were a tangible object, represents a class of simulated virtual experience which is not possible within the large-scale immersive stereoscopic CAVE environments that have become popular within academic and industrial research institutions around the world (32). The cloud-mounted framework shown in Fig. 1 also makes it straightforward to enable remotely located workers to occupy the same virtual space.

Reg Urschler of Bellevue, a retired brigadier general and reconnaissance pilot who once commanded the 55th Wing, was furious when he reviewed a list of in-flight incidents and emergencies.

I know the pressure is always on the consultant to say "It is Okay, we don't make mistakes" , but surely he could have blamed a construction defect as a reason to halt the job for more investigation? The difference between the February photographs, and these ones implies that something serious was going on.

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The exhibition is fittingly presented in the Sylvia L. Rosen Gallery for Fine Art in Craft Media, named for the Burchfield Penney’s patron whose generous support makes the biennial exhibition possible, as well as collection development. Past recipients of the Langley H. Kenzie Award include Bethany Krull (2010), Karen Donnellan (2012), Jesse Walp (2014), and Jozef Bajus (2016), who respectively work with ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber with recycled materials.

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We describe a framework for interactive molecular dynamics in a multiuser virtual reality (VR) environment, combining rigorous cloud-mounted atomistic physics simulations with commodity VR hardware, which we have made accessible to readers (see isci.itch.io/nsb-imd). It allows users to visualize and sample, with atomic-level precision, the structures and dynamics of complex molecular structures “on the fly” and to interact with other users in the same virtual environment. A series of controlled studies, in which participants were tasked with a range of molecular manipulation goals (threading methane through a nanotube, changing helical screw sense, and tying a protein knot), quantitatively demonstrate that users within the interactive VR environment can complete sophisticated molecular modeling tasks more quickly than they can using conventional interfaces, especially for molecular pathways and structural transitions whose conformational choreographies are intrinsically three-dimensional. This framework should accelerate progress in nanoscale molecular engineering areas including conformational mapping, drug development, synthetic biology, and catalyst design. More broadly, our findings highlight the potential of VR in scientific domains where three-dimensional dynamics matter, spanning research and education.