RESTON, Virginia, April 13 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- The American Society of Civil Engineers issued the following news release: * * * ASCE Honors 2026 Class of Distinguished Members | ASCE * RESTON, Va. -The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) today announced its 2026 class of Distinguished Members, which is the highest honor the Society can bestow upon a member. This year's class includes 12 of ASCE's most distinguished and active members who have made significant contributions to civil engineering throughout t more PR

PERTH, Australia, April 13 -- Murdoch University posted the following news: * * * Can hyper-real virtual worlds make us feel better? * Virtual reality tools have untapped potential to elicit positive emotions for use in education, healthcare, architecture and psychological therapy, according to new research. The recent study from Murdoch University looked at four core visual factors and associated sub-factors and how they contribute to realism and emotional engagement in virtual reality environments. Murdoch University PhD candidate and more PR

HEMPSTEAD, New York, April 14 -- Hofstra University issued the following news: * * * Stessin Prizes Recognize Achievement in Faculty Publication Ginny Greenberg Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Charles G. Riordan has announced the 2025-2026 recipients of Hofstra's Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication, established to reward the scholarly efforts of early career faculty. Last year, Hofstra earned the distinction of a High Research Spending and Doctorate Production University (R2) by the Carneg more PR

LA JOLLA, California, April 13 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * New AI Approach Reveals Ocean Currents in Unprecedented Detail * The Gulf Stream is full of interleaving temperature gradient structures that hint at complex underlying current dynamics. GOES-East satellite observations and machine learning have, for the first time, connected this observed structure to the much more difficult problem of observing ocean currents. V Scientists have developed a new method to measure ocean surface c more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, April 13 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news: * * * The Overlooked Addiction: UConn Researcher Targets Tobacco Use in Substance Use Care * For Elizabeth "Liz" Jurczak Goldsborough, tobacco use is a social justice issue. "Although tobacco use has declined dramatically in the United States, the progress has not been shared equally across all populations," says Goldsborough, a UConn School of Social Work doctoral candidate. "People with other substance use disorders smoke at much higher rates, as d more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 13 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Prenatal opioid exposure in babies doesn't predict future classroom performance * HERSHEY, Pa. -Every 25 minutes in the United States, a baby is diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that occurs in newborns who have been exposed to opioids in the womb and develop withdrawal after birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Historically, research has focused on the impact of NAS -also know more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 14 -- The National Council on Family Relations issued the following news: * * * Read Brand New NCFR Journal Research Read New Early-View Articles Published April 5-11 * Keep up with the latest research from NCFR's three scholarly journals -- Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF), Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (FR), and Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR). Most Recent Journal Issues: FR April 2026 issue (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17413729/2026/75/2): Features more PR

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 14 (TNSjou) -- The University of Maryland School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Nuanced data needed to achieve digital health care for all SPH researcher breaks down barriers to equitable access to digital health tools * Whether renewing prescriptions online, booking a doctor's appointment or receiving test results in a health app, most people these days get at least some of their health needs met by using digital health platforms. While smartphones have, to some extent, narrowed the so-call more PR