FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Dec. 3 -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news: * * * Doctoral student wins NSF fellowship for research into synthetic elastins * Ashley Martinez was not interested in doing research. When she was an undergraduate biology student at NAU and struggling in her classes, the thought of adding more work was overwhelming. She approached research reluctantly, finally deciding to do it "just so I could say that I tried it." She found a Hispanic woman doing rese more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 3 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * Every Second Counts: Leveraging Data to Streamline Emergency Medical Services * When Audrey Olivier is staying in New York City, she likes to take advantage of the city's parks to go for an early morning run. As an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at USC, Olivier's research combines physics-based modeling, data analytics and uncerta more PR

UNION, New Jersey, Dec. 2 -- Kean University issued the following news release: * * * Kean Faculty and Student Q&A: Maria Shumskaya, Ph.D., and Madhumitha Sadhasivan Gayathri * At Kean University, Dr. Maria Shumskaya leads research on the biodiversity and metabolism of wood-inhabiting fungi, with a particular interest in discovering insecticides among fungal metabolites. Working alongside her is Madhumitha Sadhasivan Gayathri, a Biology major with an emphasis on Cellular and Molecular Biolog more PR

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Dec. 3 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: * * * MicroBooNE international collaboration rules out existence of sterile neutrino * An anomaly in the behavior of neutrinos, nearly massless particles that rarely interact with other matter, has intrigued physicists for decades. In a paper published Dec. 3 in the Journal Nature, scientists on the MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out a long-standing hypothesis - the existence of a sterile neutr more PR

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Dec. 3 -- The University of Nebraska posted the following news: * * * Nebraska in the national news: November 2025 * University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members were interviewed about the impacts of tariffs and "forever chemicals" for national and international news stories in November. The articles were among 30-plus such stories featuring Husker faculty, staff, students, centers and programs during the month. * Lia Nogueira, associate professor of agricultural econ more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Dec. 4 (TNSjou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Scientists Rule Out the Existence of a Long-Suspected Particle Rutgers researchers help close the door on a decades-old physics mystery By Kitta MacPherson After collecting and analyzing data for a decade, a group of scientists, including a team from Rutgers, have debunked a decades-old theory about a mysterious particle. Their findings, published in Nature, come from the MicroBooNE experiment more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * Scientists Close the Door on a Leading Explanation for a Neutrino Mystery * An international collaboration of scientists working on the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois announced that they have found no evidence for a fourth type of neutrino. The paper was published today in Nature. Earlier physics experiments saw neutrinos behaving i more PR

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Dec. 1 (TNSjou) -- Tulane University issued the following news release: * * * Tulane study reveals how floods drive river movement amid shifting environmental patterns BY Stacey Plaisance, splaisance@tulane.edu A new Tulane University study published in Science Advances sheds light on how floods influence the way rivers move, offering fresh insight into how changing flood patterns may reshape waterways and the communities that depend on them. The study, led by Chenli more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * MicroBooNE experiment finds no evidence for the long-sought 'sterile neutrino' There is less than a 5% chance that anomalies in earlier neutrino experiments can be explained by the existence of a single new particle * Scientists are closing the door on one explanation for a mystery that has plagued particle physics for decades. An international collaboration of scientists, which includes rese more PR