DENVER, Colorado, May 27 -- Metropolitan State University of Denver issued the following news: When on the first day of class Gioia Fisk's new professor told his students he was the former director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the criminal-justice student decided she had to do some Googling. Sure enough, not only was Andrew Traver the former director of NCIS, he had also appeared in an episode of "NCIS: Los Angeles." "This guy's for real," she remembered thinking to herself. Traver joined the faculty at Metropolitan State Uni more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 29 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: The MIT Corporation -- the Institute's board of trustees -- elected nine full-term members, who will each serve for five years, three partial-term members, and three life members, during its quarterly meeting yesterday. Corporation Chair Robert B. Millard '73 announced the election results; all positions are effective July 1. The nine full-term members are: Wesley G. Bush '83; R. Erich Caulfield SM '01, PhD '06; Heather Cogdell '89; Orit G more PR

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Florida, issued the following op-ed: Nearly 10 years have passed since the United States cancelled plans to send another U.S. astronaut to space from U.S. soil on an U.S. rocket. The loss of our American-launched human spaceflight program meant sliding behind in a 21st-century space race with Russia and China - but this week marks an incredible comeback vested in American perseverance and ingenuity. SpaceX and NASA will launch two astronauts from Cape Canaveral on Thursday - and for Florida, relaunc more PR