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“Are behavioral biometrics systems biased toward different demographics? Are they robust enough to withstand sophisticated attacks and secure private information? These are the questions I am attempting to answer with my students here at Bucknell.” Technology is such a ubiquitous part of modern life that our devices often serve as extensions of our physical selves.…

Getting students to buy into a class, getting them to buy into the content, pushing them beyond what they think they’re capable of — that is what drives my work. Professor Sam Gutekunst, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Data Science, greets everyone who enters his office with the same cheerful…

Getting an early start on college-level research usually means joining a lab after a few weeks on campus. But Sean O’Connor ’26 was invited to join a Bucknell research team while still in high school. While visiting campus on Admitted Student Day as a high school senior from Miller Place, N.Y., O’Connor attended a mock…

This summer, Bucknell engineering students are researching the health of nearby waterways, creating gel shoe inserts from polymers and developing robots that can make firefighting safer, among other topics, but Ryan Koes ’26, computer science and engineering, might have the most envious research subject of them all: coffee. 

“When I came to campus, I really liked the size of it. I liked having all the green spaces everywhere and the brick buildings. I always joke that I wanted to find a school that looked like Monsters University — it’s how you picture a college campus, and that’s what I saw when I came…