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Water for Refugees: BiomimicryTX Brings Student Design Challenge to SMU
Fourteen diverse student teams at Southern Methodist University recently took part in an immersive biomimicry design experience inspired by the Biomimicry Institute’s Student Design Challenge. SMU’s two-day design challenge was part of the third annual Engineering and...Materials in Nature
A recent Wired article is an excellent collection of stories for teaching how nature uses chemical processes to make materials. With colorful photos and links to abstracts, science stories, and researchers, “Strange Biology Inspires the Best New Materials”...Geomimicry vs Biomimicry
Sometimes, people suggest that biomimicry should include all of nature, including abiotic or non-living things. While we recognize that “nature” does include water, stars, air, and rocks, focusing on life is where the important lessons lie for surviving...Biomimicry Fellow Awarded Fulbright Grant
Congratulations to our friend, Anamarija Frankic, a Biomimicry Fellow teaching at UMass Boston, who was recently awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to help the University of Zadar in Croatia develop an academic program in coastal ecosystem management and...The History of Earth as a 24-hour Day
Continuing on the theme of compressing large timescales into shorter, more comprehensible units, here’s a nice 2-minute animated video by AsapSCIENCE. It illustrates life’s evolution as if it happened in a single 24 hour day and does a great job of...Support nature-inspired problem-solvers
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