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Tips from Shriya Srinivasan-
It’s hard to know if you love engineering or science without spending some time in the lab actually doing the work. Find groups doing work that interests you, and get research experience whenever you can. Join clubs like robotics, coding clubs, or solar powered car teams. It’s very important to get real world experiences.
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Explore your interests even if they don’t immediately seem like they make sense together. The intersections of disciplines— where two interests or subjects meet — is where many of our hardest problems will be solved, so you never know how your interests could collide.
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The most creative and boundary-pushing works starts by getting the technical foundations you need. Dedicate yourself to practicing, failing, growing, and learning the basics, so you have more flexibility to apply your skills to the problems that interest you most.
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New Limbs That Amputees Can Feel
Why are only 1 in 10 people with missing limbs actually using a prosthesis? While everyone else chases the next technological advance in prosthetic performance, Shriya Srinivasan realized that amputation surgery was still being done the way it was during the U.S. Civil War. In this TED Talk, Shriya shares her research and work creating new limbs that amputees can feel.
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Integrating Man and Machine to Reinstate a Sense of Feeling
In this TED Talk, Shriya demonstrates how sensory perception traverses from the soles of her feet to the brain as she dances a south Indian classical dance form, Bharathanatyam. She also describes her research, which redesigns the surgical paradigm, reconnecting severed neural connections.
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This spotlight was created in partnership with IF/THEN and MacGillivray Freeman Films for Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels.
This cinematic partnership explores cutting edge frontiers of biotechnology and health. Superhuman Body: World of Medical Marvels takes audiences inside the wonders of the human body and the incredible breakthroughs in science and bioengineering that are changing the course of human health. The film was released in theaters in April 2024.
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