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Feature articles & personal essays.

My research writing starts with a question: why would someone outside this field care? I wrote 32 features for ASU Engineering News, connecting research to everyday life and showing the people behind it. From my newsletter, A little something for you, I've selected 21 essays about marketing, communications and storytelling.

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Selected articles

Sui Yang (right), an assistant professor of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, in his lab with graduate students (right to left), JaeWoo Park, Abhishek Saji Kumar and Jahan Bruce. Yang received the 2026 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to pioneer a new way to develop optical materials. Photographer: Roger Ndayisaba/ASU

ASU Engineering News · 2026

What comes after silicon?

Assistant Professor Sui Yang receives 2026 CAREER Award to develop materials that could surpass classical capabilities by controlling light at the molecular level.

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Konrad Rykaczewski, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, works with a soldering iron in his lab. In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, he recently revealed new insights into sweating mechanisms. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

ASU Engineering News · 2025

The real reason we sweat

ASU Assistant Professor Rykaczewski reveals the key to optimizing cooling in extreme heat in a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

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Left to right: ASU first-year students, Katelyn Flores, Handan Aksoy, Priscilla Munoz and Adam Fowler. The team won the Best-In-Destruction Award at the 2025 ASM International DomesDay competition in Detroit, Michigan. Photo courtesy of Hamed Arami

ASU Engineering News · 2026

Engineering failure

A team of first-year ASU students won an award for building a dome that failed less destructively at the 2025 ASM International DomesDay competition.

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All writing

53 pieces

2025-11-08

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