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On defunding science and engineering in Wisconsin

December 12, 2024Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspolitics

I have worked for UWM since 2009 and I have seen different times. When I came here, the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) had 84 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, many of them quite young, active, and ambitious…. Read More

Crystal-Inspired metamaterials based on Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS)

April 15, 2024Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related mattersmechanics, politics

Another interesting topic that I learned during my sabbatical in Russia is Metamaterials based on Triply periodic minimal surfaces. For metamaterials, their properties are dependent on their structure rather than on their chemistry. Arsentev, M.; Topalov, E.; Balabanov, S.; Sysoev,… Read More

Nanotechnology and foreign grants

February 4, 2020Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspolitics

One of the founding fathers of the Nanotechnology, Professor Charles Lieber from Harvard University, got arrested last week in Boston for his international scientific collaboration. Dr. Lieber is the Chair of the Chemistry Department at Harvard. He was awarded (together… Read More

Again about the role of money in science

August 25, 2019Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspolitics

A message from our college’s research support team about an NSF report on its programs supporting scientific buisnesses and the commercialization of science caused me to read other NSF reports including the NSF Office of Inspector General latest report (https://www.nsf.gov/oig/_pdf/NSF_OIG_SAR_60.pdf)…. Read More

Do we need an “epistemological bang for the buck”?

August 21, 2018Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspolitics

The intellectual life of every nation is shaped by its national philosophical tradition. Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger for the Germans. Descartes, Pascal, and Derrida for the French. Dostoevsky and Berdyaev for the Russians. In America, the original local branch of… Read More

A review paper about cultural and political implications of Biomimetics

July 13, 2018Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspapers, politics

My another unusual article has been published in an open access journal. Nosonovsky M. Cultural implications of biomimetics: changing the perception of living and non-living. MOJ Appl. Bionics Biomech. 2018;2(4):230‒236. http://medcraveonline.com/MOJABB/MOJABB-02-00072.pdf I am cautious with open access journals, since many… Read More

Tuition well spent

August 27, 2017Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspolitics

Now I can look at the educational process from the two sides of the aisle: as a faculty member and as a parent. My son Mark became a new freshman in the department of Civil Engineering (congratulations, Mark!). I pay… Read More

Is fundraising a scientific activity?

May 28, 2017Friction, wetting, mechanics, and related matterspolitics

There is a very old question, when it comes to faculty evaluations and promotions: whether we measure scientific accomplishments by the quality of publications or by the amount of money raised? The question may sound weird, but there is a… Read More

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