Using networks locally to make a global impact
(World News Science)

BY PATRICK KURP Special to Rice News Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio is the lone civil engineer in a research network made up of physicists, anthropologists, computer scientists and control theorists, among other disciplines. `What we all have in common is a single interest - networks - and how they work and what happens when they don`t work,` said Dueñas-Osorio, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Rice whose research has often focused on power grid failure, urban water security and the chances of homes in Houston being...