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Machine Learning Predicts Food Crisis from News Articles

April
2023
A new machine-learning algorithm can predict looming food insecurity more accurately than experts or traditional models alone.

East Palestine Derailment Prompts Independent Testing

April
2023
After the Norfolk Southern train derailment, citizens are seeking out independent testing to determine what kind of contamination they may be facing.

Want to be an Entrepreneur? Personal Stories From Three Successful Entrepreneurs Who Have Traveled This Path.

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, May 10, 2023,
2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Part of the Diversity and Equity Accelerator through Learning for Startups (DEALS) Initiative. Diving into entrepreneurship from chemical engineering may sound daunting, but it can also be exciting...

Nyah Zarate

Dr. Zarate is the CEO and Program Manager at Continuous Solutions labs, she has over a decade of leadership experience in R&D and engineering. She was a senior R&D engineer at Intel, Abbott and Purdue University where she led a group of researchers in project development, lab organization, equipment allocation and funding.

Nyah is an expert in organizational processes, modeling, simulation, experimentation, and hardware in the areas of control and system level integration. She is the Principal Investigator on a number of projects under SBIR/STTR awards in Phases I, II...Read more

Carmen Pacheco

Carmen immigrated from Mexico as a teenager and was the first in her family to attend college. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees of science in chemical engineering at the University of Arizona in 1999 and 2001, respectively. After working as a process engineer at ExxonMobile and Valero Energy Corporations, in Montana and California, respectively, Carmen started teaching chemistry and engineering courses at the University of California Davis, Sacramento City College, Los Rios Community College and Pima Community College. 

She then went on to teach chemical...Read more

Emeka Nwankwo

Dr. Emeka Nwankwo is the Chairman of Aquada Development Corporation, and the President of Vertical Optimization,  LLC., a business development & technology deployment firm based in the Washington, D.C. area. He is a trained engineer and business development specialist. Emeka has a Doctorate Degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University in New York as well as a Master’s Degree in enterprise development from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, England (Churchill College).

Previously, he worked in the Central Research & Development Division...Read more

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