Dr. Daiga Helmeste—Associate Adjunct Professor (R) at the University of California, Irvine and science news editor for the Institute of Brain Medicine (Read part one here.) The George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award ($75,000) winner was Kaitlyn Wang (CA) for her project “PHYS056: Ultra-Short-Period Planets Discovered by ExoScout”. She developed “an efficient way to identify certain exoplanets that orbit very … Continue reading Waves of Change (part two): From Exoplanets to Robots and Electroactive Bandages