BINGHAMTON, New York, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Binghamton University issued the following news: * * * Research, education will be key elements of collaboration * * * WMG, at The University of Warwick in the U.K., and Binghamton University have entered an agreement to explore collaboration in the fields of science, technology and education with the aim of fueling vital battery manufacturing capability in both countries. The new five-year memorandum of understanding sets the foundation to encourage more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Clark University issued the following news: * * * An expert in environmental humanities, new Leir Chair champions climate solutions, not despair * * * By Meredith Woodward King Christina Gerhardt, Clark's new Henry J. Leir Endowed Chair of Comparative Literature, recognizes that today's college students face what a colleague has termed a "polycrisis," the confluence of systemic tipping points in historical and economic inequities, and climate ch more PR

PERTH, Australia, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Curtin University issued the following news release: New research from Curtin University has revealed increasing cigarette prices over the past several years have seen more older Australians turn to cannabis use as an alternative. Researchers from Curtin's School of Accounting, Economics and Finance investigated the buying habits of nearly 100,000 Australians from 2001 to 2019 by analysing data from the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey.  more PR

OLD ELVET, England, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- Durham University issued the following news: * * * Whether it's Santa Claus, Father Christmas, or St Nicholas that he goes by, at this time of year children everywhere are excited for his arrival. But, does the promise of presents from 'the man in red' make children behave better? * * * Dr Rohan Katipany from our Psychology department led a study looking at just this. The surprising result - it's not believing in Santa that encourages good behaviour.  more PR

OLD ELVET, England, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Durham University issued the following news: Scientists from our Geography department have made a major breakthrough in understanding one of the most powerful forces shaping the ocean floor: turbidity currents. These dense, fast-moving underwater flows of sediment and water carve out deep-sea canyons and transport vast amounts of sediment, organic carbon, and nutrients across the ocean floor to the deep-sea. Until now, it has been difficult to study the more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative will bring together researchers from across the Institute to deliver health care solutions at scale. * * * By Anne Trafton, MIT News At MIT, collaboration between researchers working in the life sciences and engineering is a frequent occurrence. Under a new initiative launched last week, the Institute plans to strengthen and e more PR

TOWNSVILLE, Australia, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- James Cook University issued the following news release: James Cook University scientists will be part of a study to discover which trees will do best as carbon levels in the atmosphere increase and which won't - so land managers know where to concentrate their efforts. JCU's Professor Lucas Cernusak will lead the study, funded by a more than $700,000 grant from the federal government's Australian Research Council. He said atmospheric carbon dioxide  more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Carolisa Watson, doctoral student in geography at the University of Kansas, has earned the distinguished Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship from the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College. The institute awards the fellowship to doctoral students from select institutions who are studying topics related to the role of government in a free society, public service, public policy and more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The team's detection method, which identified 138 space rocks ranging from bus- to stadium-sized, could aid in tracking potential asteroid impactors. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT NewsThe asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as Brooklyn, New York. Such a massive impactor is predicted to hit Earth ra more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Chronic diseases like diabetes are prevalent, costly, and challenging to treat. A common denominator driving them may be a promising new therapeutic target. * * * By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute Chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and inflammatory disorders have a huge impact on humanity. They are a leading cause of disease burden and deaths around  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be. * * * By Rachel Gordon, MIT CSAIL Daniela Rus, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was recently named a co-reci more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders' motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices. * * * By CK Taylor, Climate and Sustainability Consortium The amount of waste generated by the construction sector underscores an urgent need for embracing circularity -- a sustainable model that aims to minimize waste and maximize material efficie more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Using LLMs to convert machine-learning explanations into readable narratives could help users make better decisions about when to trust a model. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Machine-learning models can make mistakes and be difficult to use, so scientists have developed explanation methods to help users understand when and how they should trust a model's predictions. Thes more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * Using high-powered lasers, this new method could help biologists study the body's immune responses and develop new medicines. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Metabolic imaging is a noninvasive method that enables clinicians and scientists to study living cells using laser light, which can help them assess disease progression and treatment responses. But lig more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Longtime MIT faculty member used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. * * * By Sandi Miller, Department of Physics MIT Professor Emeritus Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD '61 of Peabody, Massachusetts, formerly of Salem and Belmont, beloved husband of Dorothy A. (Haughey) Bradt, passed a more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A new technique identifies and removes the training examples that contribute most to a machine-learning model's failures. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Machine-learning models can fail when they try to make predictions for individuals who were underrepresented in the datasets they were trained on. For instance, a model that predicts the best treatment option for someone w more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * A detailed new look at dopamine signaling suggests neuroscientists' model of reinforcement learning may need to be revised. * * * By Jennifer Michalowski, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a fu more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds this effect occurs even when reward models are trained on factual data. * * * By Ellen Hoffman, Center for Constructive Communication Large language models (LLMs) that drive generative artificial intelligence apps, such as ChatGPT, have been proliferating at lightning speed and have improve more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Driven to solve hard problems, Associate Professor Zachary Hartwig is advancing a new approach to commercial fusion energy. * * * By Zach Winn, MIT News If you're looking for hard problems, building a nuclear fusion power plant is a pretty good place to start. Fusion -- the process that powers the sun -- has proven to be a difficult thing to recreate here on Earth despite more PR

GUELPH, Ontario, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Guelph issued the following news release: The University of Guelph and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health have partnered to support the continuation of wastewater monitoring of COVID-19, influenza and more in the city of Guelph. This new agreement will see a team of U of G researchers under the direction of Dr. Lawrence Goodridge and Dr. Marc Habash provide sampling and analysis of city of Guelph wastewater three times a week. Goo more PR

CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Canberra issued the following news release: The University of Canberra's (UC) Global Research Centre for Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) has received a $5 million funding boost from Wellcome to develop climate and health impact assessment tools through the new project, Climate Attribution of Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Priority Population Health in Southeast Asia and Australia (CANBREATHE). The new project will effectively engage,  more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * New initiative called "EcoViz" enables clear and compelling visualizations of environmental data from fire to floods * * * A team of scientists and science communicators affiliated with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz hav more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * Using data from a large nationwide network of community-based health organizations, new study highlights critical shortfalls in cancer prevention care among patients who experience social and economic risks * * * Researchers at University of California San Diego and collaborating institutions have shed light on the ways that social risks, such as housing or food insecurity more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: The essence of schooling has changed little since the 19th century, even amid calls for change and attempts at reform. A new analysis from a University of Kansas education expert calls for a paradigm shift to a "school within a school" model that looks to ecology to make transformative changes. No Child Left Behind was a landmark piece of legislation in the early 21st century that claimed it would ensure  more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Construction will begin next month on a 5,500-square-foot addition to the Kansas Geological Survey Drill Core Library in the West District of the University of Kansas Lawrence campus. The new building will almost triple the amount of storage space for the extensive collection of core -- rock samples collected when drilling a well -- maintained by KGS, and it will more than double the laboratory space scien more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Phoenix issued the following news release: * * * Concurrent surveys of HR managers in financial services, healthcare and manufacturing industries and workers also explored perceptions of credit for prior learning as a retention tactic * * * In a new survey conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of University of Phoenix, majorities of human resource (HR) managers across financial services, healthcare and manufacturing cite higher quality more PR

WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- University of Windsor issued the following news: Engineering professor Jeff Defoe has been interested in human flight for a long time, looking for ways to make airplanes more efficient while still allowing people to travel and experience the world. The design of aircraft hasn't changed much over a century of commercial flight, and most engineering advances have focused on small gains, which Dr. Defoe believes are close to the limit: "Aviation engineers thr more PR

WOLLONGONG, Australia, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Wollongong issued the following news release: UOW and FivepHusion announce exclusive option agreement for development and commercialisation of Resectassist(TM) Drug Delivery Platform The University of Wollongong (UOW) has secured a partnership with advanced clinical-stage biotechnology company FivepHusion to bring the innovative ResectAssist(TM) Drug Delivery Platform closer to clinical application. The agreement allows FivepHusion  more PR

RICHMOND, Virginia, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * As vice president, the innovator of pharmaceutical and medical technologies has fostered dramatic growth in VCU's renowned research enterprise. * * * By David Oglethorpe Srirama Rao, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University's vice president for research and innovation, has been named as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors' 2024 class. This prestigious distinction recognizes Rao more PR