As an undergraduate student in Serbia’s capital city of Belgrade, Milan Curcic was excelling in his classes but was mostly focused on his side job as a tattoo artist. It was the early 2000s and his country had been flooded by punk rock and movies glorifying American surfer culture.
When Yelena Yesha, PhD, was hired at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) three years ago, part of her charge was to take the groundbreaking research being done at the University of Miami and translate it into private, income-generating companies.
When Ben Kirtman started researching the meteorological phenomenon known as “El Niño” in 1993, few knew what it was and even fewer foresaw what that research could lead to. Now, 30 years later, Kirtman and an ever-growing team of collaborators have not only helped make El Niño a household name, but they’re starting to use […]
