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Derek Smith

Derek Smith

@djsmitty156.bsky.social

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PIO at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering Sometimes freelance writer; amateur nature photographer All thoughts my own.

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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Apr 15

NEW PRESS RELEASE - Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste🧪💧

Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.

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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 23

UMich researchers are working with UWash, UPenn, LBNL, Google, HPE, Microsoft, and Nvidia on a platform that transfers data between chips with light instead of electricity.

They say it could topple the memory wall limiting #AI model growth today. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/boos...

Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips

AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.

news.engin.umich.edu

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hi! Could you please add me to the feed? I'm a PIO at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering covering several departments.

Here's my author page on the Michigan Engineering news site:
news.engin.umich.edu/author/smitd...

news.engin.umich.edu

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hi! Could you please add me to the feed? I'm a PIO at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering covering Chemical Engineering.

Here's my author page on the Michigan Engineering news site:
news.engin.umich.edu/author/smitd...

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hi Manuel! Could you please add me to this feed? I'm a PIO at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering covering Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering.

Here's my author page on the Michigan Engineering news site:
news.engin.umich.edu/author/smitd...

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 21

Hi Henning! Could you please add me to the feed? I'm a PIO at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering covering Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering.

Here's my author page on the Michigan Engineering news site:
news.engin.umich.edu/author/smitd...

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 21

PRESS RELEASE: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals and extra reverse osmosis steps. 💧🧪news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-...

New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals

Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.

news.engin.umich.edu

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Jan 20

New press release: New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals. news.engin.umich.edu/2025/01/new-...

DM if you are a journalist and want to be connected with our researchers!

New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals

Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.

news.engin.umich.edu

Derek Smith @djsmitty156.bsky.social · Dec 18

@ SCIENCE WRITERS. Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, a U-M research scientists is will to chat about Parker Solar Probe's closest approach with the sun on December 24th. He will use the data to help solve the long-standing coronal heating problem—why the sun's atmosphere is 200X hotter than its surface.