SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb. 17 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Ashesh Chattopadhyay wins Sloan Fellowship to build advanced AI for Earth-system modeling * University of California, Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events with the support of the highly competitive 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship. Chattopadhyay's research group at the Baskin School more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 17 -- The University of Chicago posted the following news: * * * Eight UChicago scholars awarded prestigious Sloan Fellowships in 2026 * Eight University of Chicago scholars have earned Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize early-career scholars' potential to make substantial contributions to their fields. Awarded since 1955 to the brightest young scientists across the United States and Canada, the two-year Sloan Fellowships are one of the most competitive and more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 17 -- Carnegie Mellon University posted the following news: * * * Five CMU Faculty Members Named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows * Five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members from the School of Computer Science (opens in new window), Mellon College of Science (opens in new window) and Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences (opens in new window) are among the 126 recipients of 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose a more PR

ITHACA, New York, Feb. 17 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Five from Cornell named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows * Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Cornell recipients are: danah boyd, the Geri Gay Professor of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Abe Davis, assistant professor of computer science in the C more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Feb. 17 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * Four UC San Diego Faculty Earn Prestigious 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships * Valentina Di Santo Assistant Professor, Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Valentina Di Santo is a fish ecophysiologist and biomechanist, whose research examines how fishes move through complex and changing environments. Since joining Scripps Institution of Oceanograp more PR

HIGH POINT, North Carolina, Feb. 17 -- High Point University issued the following news release: * * * HPU Students Make Career Connections with Employers at Life Skills Career Summit * High Point University students learned about a variety of jobs and internships as they met with recruiters from nearly 100 national, regional and local employers during HPU's annual Life Skills Career Summit at the Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center on Feb. 10. HIGH POINT, N.C., Feb. 17, 202 more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 17 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2026 * Seven MIT researchers are among the 130 new members and 28 international members recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2026. Twelve additional MIT alumni were also elected as new members. One of the highest professional distinctions for engineers, membership in the NAE is g more PR

NEWARK, New Jersey, Feb. 18 -- The New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * NJIT Secures Nearly $20 Million to Modernize Tiernan Hall New Jersey Institute of Technology has secured nearly $20 million in state funding to support the comprehensive renewal and improvement of Tiernan Hall, a central academic and research building on campus since its construction in 1972. The funding -- $12,150,000 from the State's Capital Improvement Fund (CIF) and $7,750,000 from the  more PR

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Feb. 16 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: * * * NMSU student's cardboard creation detects rotation of galaxy * Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned recycled materials into a backyard radio telescope capable of detecting the rotation of the Milky Way. "This is just something under 200 dollars, using average materials that anyone would find around the more PR

ROCHESTER, New York, Feb. 18 (TNSjou) -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: * * * RIT researchers formulate a new "recipe" for 3D bioprinting stronger, human-like tissues Breakthrough work ensures bio-printed tissue keeps its shape and decreases damage to cells * RIT researchers have developed an ideal recipe that could advance how bio-tissues are produced. Ahasan Habib, and Christopher Lewis, both professors in RIT's College of Engineering Technology, and more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Feb. 17 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * Safer Railroads Through Ultrasound * This latest advance is the result of more than two decades of research by a team of structural engineers in the lab of Francesco Lanza di Scalea, a professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He also serves on two key rail engineering committees of the Transportation Research Board of t more PR

STONY BROOK, New York, Feb. 17 -- The State University of New York Stony Brook University posted the following news: * * * Stony Brook University Assistant Professor Tara Smiley Named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow * Fellowship Honors Exceptional Early-Career Researchers STONY BROOK, NY-February 17, 2026- The State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University) Department of Ecology & Evolution in the College of Arts & Sciences and Turkana Basin Institute Assistant Professor  more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 17 -- The University of California posted the following news release: * * * The home of next-gen genius: 3 UCLA professors named Sloan Research Fellows * Three UCLA faculty members -David Clewett, Pradip Gatkine and Juliana Londono-Velez -are among 126 scientists and scholars from 44 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada selected today to receive 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships. The Sloan Fellowships are among the most competitive and p more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, Feb. 17 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Three Illinois faculty named Sloan Foundation Fellows * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -Three scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have received Sloan Foundation Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Mathematics professor Benjamin Castle, physics professor Jacob Covey and microbiology professor Wei Qin are among the 126 early-career research scientists whose "c more PR

PASADENA, California, Feb. 17 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Three Professors Named 2026 Sloan Fellows * A trio of Caltech faculty members have been selected to receive the 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship: Elias Most, assistant professor of theoretical astrophysics; Huy Tuan Pham, assistant professor of mathematics and Rosenberg Scholar; and Lingfu Zhang, assistant professor of mathematics. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor "early more PR

AMHERST, Massachusetts, Feb. 18 -- The University of Massachusetts issued the following news: * * * Physicist Andrea Thamm Wins Sloan Research Fellowship UMass Amherst Assistant Professor of Physics Andrea Thamm has won a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship--only the 19th UMass professor to win the award in its 71-year history. "It is wonderful news, though not surprising, to see Andrea Thamm recognized with a Sloan Fellowship," says Andrea Pocar, professor of physics at UMass Amherst and the de more PR

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 18 -- The University of Iowa College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Iowa research engineer invents physics-based approach for measuring river flow A University of Iowa research engineer has invented a custom physics-based approach for measuring the flow in rivers and streams, which could benefit applications ranging from design of structures to flood warnings to resource management. The vast majority--about 95%--of flood monitoring systems operated by t more PR