Steinberg receives Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award
BIOS Trustee, Professor Deborah Steinberg, has been selected as one of the Commonwealth’s outstanding faculty members by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Photos/Video: School Underwater Robot Contest
Some of the island’s brightest young minds showcased their technical skills yesterday [Mar 8], taking their self-built underwater robots to compete in a series of manoeuvrability and speed challenges at the National Sports Centre pool in Devonshire.
Students test their underwater robots
Students put their technical skills to the test yesterday as part of an island-wide competition to design the best underwater robot.
Monster hurricanes reached U.S. during prehistoric periods of ocean warming
New research on coastal sediments, funded in part by BIOS’s Risk Prediction Initiative, shows that prehistoric hurricanes along the northern East Coast of the United States were likely more frequent and intense than those that have hit within recorded history.