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Klotsa Group in the news

Starling flock illustrating collective behavior

• January 2021: A wonderfully-written article by Alyssa LaFaro on “Cooperation over competition” about the research in the Klotsa group is published in Endeavors magazine.

Endeavors Q and A with Daphne Klotsa

• December 2020: Q&A with Daphne on the group's research, check it out here.

• Klotsa Lab convergent science collaboration!

Daphne Klotsa profile in UNC College of Arts and Sciences

• March 2016. College of Arts and Sciences Website: Physicist Daphne Klotsa: Translating research into real-world applications by Dianne Shaw.

Highschoolers in the Klotsa Group

High-schoolers Aneesha and Adam have completed an exciting project on the collective behavior of hexbug robots, under Steini's careful supervision!

High-school students working on the Hexbug robot projectHexbug robots used in the high-school student project

Outreach

Klotsa Lab participated in Science is Awesome Day@UNC organized by the Physics Department. Three dual-language elementary schools in the Carrboro/Chapel Hill area came to UNC to spend a whole day dedicated to science! Graduate student Ian Seim helped out with hands-on activities and labs throughout the day! Daphne gave a presentation on the physics of penguin huddling, and WON best presentation voted by the students.

Science is Awesome Day at UNC outreach activityStudents participating in Science is Awesome Day at UNCKlotsa Lab presentation at Science is Awesome Day at UNC