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    One ASU researcher’s fix for freight’s costliest miles

    Artificial intelligenceTransportation

    The middle mile is where freight gets stuck and costs pile up. This innovative approach helps logistics networks sense trouble before delays snowball.

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Explore the must-read stories shaping today’s biggest engineering and technology topics. This month we are featuring achievements of Fulton Schools faculty.

Assistant Professor Nicholas Rolston and undergraduate researcher Sidra Elsaady working together in a solar energy laboratory at ASU. Rolston, wearing a blue button-down shirt, points at a piece of equipment while Elsaady, wearing a lab coat and safety glasses, observes. The background features various scientific instruments and a yellow chemical safety cabinet used for their research on self-healing solar cells.

Self-healing solar in space

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Trenchless tech expert breaks new ground as UESI president

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2 ASU faculty elected as fellows to National Academy of Inventors

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  • ASU sunburst logo sign in front of palo verde tree

    2 engineering faculty elected NAI fellows

    Faculty members from the Fulton Schools were elected into the National Academy of Inventors for their contributions in microelectronics and bioremediation.

  • Samuel Ariaratnam, a professor of construction engineering and the Sunstate Chair of Construction Management and Engineering at the Del E. Webb School of Construction, was recently elected president and named a fellow of the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute, part of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

    Trenchless tech expert breaks new ground as UESI president

    Samuel Ariaratnam, whose research in underground construction methods preserves roads, leads a group focused on utilities and surveying while mentoring engineers.

  • Assistant Professor Nicholas Rolston and undergraduate researcher Sidra Elsaady working together in a solar energy laboratory at ASU. Rolston, wearing a blue button-down shirt, points at a piece of equipment while Elsaady, wearing a lab coat and safety glasses, observes. The background features various scientific instruments and a yellow chemical safety cabinet used for their research on self-healing solar cells.

    Self-healing solar in space

    Nick Rolston’s proposal to explore the potential of perovskite solar panels on orbiting satellites has been selected for the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award.