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The Approach — The Approach — Discovery, Innovation, and Imagination at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
( Civil Engineering senior Elizabeth Wroe wrote this excellent post for The Approach . It’s about an engineering competition last month in Oakland, Calif., where she and her teammates won second place.Founded 20 years ago by Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research , the Ig Nobel awards recognise genuine academic research and "honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". At 7.30pm EDT on Thursday (12.30am on Friday, British Summer Time), this year's crop of winners will collect their awards in front of a 1,200-strong crowd who will throw paper planes onto the stage as the newly minted laureates make their 60-second acceptance speeches. Last year, psychologists Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest at the University of Amsterdam shared the medicine Ig Nobel for their discovery that breathing difficulties brought on by asthma can be alleviated by repeated rollercoaster rides .
Ig Nobel Prize ceremony 2011 – live webcast | Science | guardian.co.uk
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