How fire ants use their bodies to build wriggling Eiffel Tower-like columns

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New research focusing on the remarkable tower-building abilities of fire ants continues to attract attention from top media outlets, such as this story from the Washington Post. Also, study co-author Craig Tovey, a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, takes us behind the scenes of the research in this post for The Conversation. David Hu also worked on the study. Hu is an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the School of Physics. 

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College of Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, School of Physics

Categories
Life Sciences and Biology
Keywords
College of Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, David Hu, Craig Tovey, Fire Ants, tower building
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  • Created By: Renay San Miguel
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Jul 14, 2017 - 10:34am
  • Last Updated: Jul 14, 2017 - 6:18pm