NEW YORK, Sept. 10 -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * 25 Columbia Ideas and Innovations That Changed the World By David J. Craig Like its Ivy League peers, Columbia started out as a sleepy institution focused on teaching history and literature to undergraduates -- a model of higher education typical of eighteenth-century colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. But its location in New York City, the future industrial hub of America, soon pushed it to broaden its mission. more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 10 -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following Q&A on Sept. 9, 2025, by Heidi Opdyke with Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Glen de Vries dean of the Mellon College of Science: * * * AI's Role in the Future of Discovery Barbara Shinn-Cunningham on the expanding role of AI in science Carnegie Mellon University is helping define how artificial intelligence reshapes science -- from accelerating discovery to scaling up new technologies. Ahead of the AI Horizons Sum more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Sept. 10 -- The Texas A&M University College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Diodes Incorporated and Texas A&M Partner to Promote Semiconductor Skills and Industry Acumen Texas A&M University graduate students are conducting semiconductor research projects related to chip design, biomedical applications and machine learning. By Katie Satterlee A donation from the Diodes Foundation (Diodes Incorporated) is powering an educational initiative for graduat more PR

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 10 -- SUNY University at Albany issued the following news: * * * UAlbany Launches Environmental Studies Major, Climate Science Graduate Programs By Mike Nolan The University at Albany is offering new academic programs that will help shape future leaders to address the world's evolving climate and environmental challenges. UAlbany's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the College of Arts and Sciences has received approval from the New York State E more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 10 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Rana Ashkar awarded faculty fellowship By Anne Kroemer Hoffman Rana Ashkar, associate professor of physics in the College of Science, has been awarded the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship was established in 2019 with a generous gift from its namesake to advance the national and international prominence of the College of Scienc more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 10 (TNSrep) -- Yale University issued the following news release: * * * Origins of mental illness, fast gas for a black hole Yale researchers discover a gas guzzling black hole, learn that mental illness may start to develop earlier than once thought, and explore why some brain seizures cause a loss of consciousness. This month's "Insights & Outcomes" features research that either zooms in or zooms out for answers to pressing questions about life, the mind, and  more PR