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A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by compression or twisting. By adding a magnetic layer, they achieved remote control of the shape-shifting process, allowing the lanterns to act as grippers, filters, or expandable mechanisms.

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Synopsis

NSF is committed to securing the nation’s research enterprise as part of its core mission. The Research on Research Security (RoRS) program will advance the understanding of the full scope, potential, challenges, and nature of the research on research security field through scholarly evidence.

Background

The following activities provide background and context for developing proposals to submit to the RoRS program.

Program Description

Collectively, the research that RoRS funds will foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, and proposers should address how they will leverage the range of expertise, theories, and methods of the team to engage in evidence-based research on research security. Proposers are encouraged to identify collaborators across a wide range of sectors, and to consider projects in collaboration with international partners that share U.S.

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Tenured Senior Position (Associate/Full Professor) in Innovative Construction Engineering

Location: Notre Dame, IN
Open Date: Sep 12, 2025
Deadline: Dec 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description: The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a full-time, tenured senior position in innovative construction engineering to complement the existing faculty. The position is anticipated to commence in the Fall of 2026 and is expected to be at the Endowed Full or Associate Professor level.

The CEEES faculty boasts substantial expertise in various areas, including natural-hazard infrastructure resilience, sustainable materials, life-cycle assessment of the built environment, monitoring and optimization of built infrastructure, digital twins applications and AI-enabled infrastructure performance assessment. The University of Notre Dame also has a number of relevant ongoing initiatives in the domains of construction and real-estate, environmental sustainability and scientific artificial

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