## MME researchers recognized with Ig Nobel Physics Prize for innovative urinal design Research led by PhD student Kaveeshan Thurairaj and Dr. Zhao Pan has won an Ig Nobel Physics Prize for their splash-free urinal designs. The Ig Nobels are a fun parody of the Nobel Prize and celebrate some of the most unusual, fun, and imaginative research in academia. The awards took place in Zurich, Switzerland, where the team wore yellow raincoats as couture at the ceremony and collected their strange but memorable foot-mushroom statue and a ten-trillion-dollar bill from Zimbabwe, which is worth 15 to 30…