• 3-D Models of Urban Environments to Aid Military Efforts

    An Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded team at the University of California, Berkeley has built 3-D models of urban environments for the first time in a fast, scalable and automated way. Dr. Avideh Zakhor, professor of electrical engineering at the university, leads a team that has

  • Computer Science Researcher Earns Honor

    An Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported professor has been awarded the 2007 Knuth Prize for Theoretical Computer Science for creative and influential contributions to the theory of distributed computing. The recipient is Dr. Nancy Lynch, the eighth awardee and the first female to be

  • Ghost Hunters to track down the unexplained at Wright-Patterson

    It has been suspected for years, now workers here finally have the opportunity to find out if Buildings 70, 219 and the Arnold House are inhabited by more than government employees. The Atlantic Paranormal Society, known as TAPS, visits the base this week to investigate three buildings where workers

  • AFRL’s Top Civilian Executive Retires

    The executive director for the Air Force Research Laboratory headquartered here retired from federal service Wednesday in a formal ceremony conducted at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. A member of the Senior Executive Service, Les McFawn retired after a 38 years in both the active-duty

  • Medical capacity grows in Zabul Province

    In an area where Taliban attacks and improvised explosive devices are commonplace, a joint U.S. Air Force and Army team continues to build capacity for local civilians to treat injured people here. During a graduation ceremony Jan. 8, five young Afghan men from Zabul Province received certificates

  • Wright-Patt to co-sponsor FIRST LEGO League Ohio State Championship

    Forty-eight teams representing some of the best and brightest students from across the state will compete at the FIRST LEGO® League Ohio State Championship Tournament at the Ervin J. Nutter Center, on the campus of Wright State University, January 12 -13. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

  • AFRL student researcher named to ESPN Academic All-America Soccer team

    Shauna Stapleton, a student researcher with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate, was recently named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Soccer first team. Ms. Stapleton, a senior at Purdue University majoring in entomology, works as a laboratory