GARDEN CITY, New York, Aug. 19 -- Adelphi University issued the following statement on Aug. 18, 2026, by President Michael Balboni: * * * Appointment of University Counsel Elizabeth Cheung-Gaffney and Establishment of the Office of Legal Affairs Dear Adelphi Community, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Cheung-Gaffney, JD, as Adelphi University's general counsel, as well as the formal establishment of the Office of Legal Affairs. This strategic shift to internal legal counsel was one of my first priorities after taking o more PR

DELAWARE, Ohio, Aug. 18 -- Ohio Wesleyan University issued the following news release: * * * Campus Happenings * DELAWARE, Ohio - Ohio Wesleyan University, including its Richard M. Ross Art Museum and Perkins Observatory, announced its public events for August and September 2026 today. Unless otherwise noted, admission is free. 9 p.m. Aug. 21 and 28 and 8 p.m. Sept. 11, 18, and 25 - Friday night skywatches, at Ohio Wesleyan's Perkins Observatory, 3199 Columbus Pike (U.S. 23), Delaware. Content varies based on weather conditions, but may in more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 17 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * DNA shaper steers nervous system development * A functional nervous system depends on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. So as developing organisms build their nervous systems, their neurons must take on different forms and functions to fulfill their designated roles. That carefully orchestrated process gives rise to thousands of different cell types in the human brain. In the tiny worm known as C. elegans, the nervous syste more PR

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Aug. 18 -- Eckerd College posted the following news: * * * Eckerd College Students Co-Author Gopher Tortoise Research in Prominent Scientific Journals * Jeffrey Goessling, Ph.D. examines a tortoise on Egmont Key. Photo by Penh Alicandro '22 New technology is allowing the Eckerd community to tackle old questions. Associate Professor of Biology Jeffrey Goessling, Ph.D., operates a herpetology lab where students across disciplines collaborate to study gopher tortoises. Since last summer alone, Goessling has co-author more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 18 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Edo Banach Co-Authors Article on Insurance and End-of-Life Care in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management * Partner Edo Banach co-authored an article titled "Insurance Type and Quality of End-of-Life Care in Adults <65 Years With Hematologic Malignancies" in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. The article, a collaboration with researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Merative, analyzed 2,669 adults ages 18  more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, Aug. 18 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Emotion-regulation training reduces distress, changes the brain, team reports * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -A five-week training intervention taught college students to better regulate their emotions in response to negative events, a new study finds. After the training, the students reported less emotional distress when viewing negative images or thinking about difficult events from their own lives, and brain scans revealed corresponding more PR

ITHACA, New York, Aug. 18 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Existing drug could treat invasive canine oral tumors * A benign but invasive canine oral cancer is often mistaken for a very similar malignant one, leading to misdiagnoses in close to a third of cases, but a new diagnostic tool can now distinguish between the two, according to a new study that also identified a promising FDA-approved drug ready for clinical trials. Canine acanthomatous ameloblastoma (CAA) is benign but also a locally aggressive, destructive a more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety released the following written testimony by Liya Palagashvili, director of the Labor Policy Project and senior research fellow at the George Mason University Mercatus Center, from a July 29, 2026, hearing entitled "The Impact of AI on the Workforce": * * * Good morning, Chairman Banks, Ranking Member Hickenlooper, and members of the Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety. It is an honor to testify before you. My na more PR

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Aug. 19 (TNSjou) -- Heidelberg University issued the following news release: * * * Light-Based 3D Printing: Innovative "Ink" Enables a Closed-Loop Material Cycle Heidelberg research team develops a polymer material that can be broken down into its individual components and reused - Polymers used for light-based 3D printing are very stable due to their chemical structure, but they are typically hard to recycle. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Eva Blasco, a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering a more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 -- Rockefeller University posted the following news: * * * How studying RNA regulation in the brain illuminates mysteries ranging from the birth of language to treating Parkinsons * When Robert Darnell, MD, PhD, was launching his research career more than thirty years ago, he became fascinated by paraneoplastic neurological disorders (PNDs), a group of syndromes so rare that most doctors had never heard of them. Patients with lung, ovarian, or breast cancer would suddenly show signs of severe brain disease. They would lose more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 [Category: BizMedia] -- Dow Jones, a provider of news and business information, posted the following news release: * * * Journalism Meets the Classroom: Inside the Dow Jones News Foundation and NGPF Partnership * What do you get when trusted financial journalism meets the classroom? A partnership designed to help students make sense of how finance, markets and economics shape our world. The Dow Jones Foundation recently hit a new milestone in its partnership with Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF) with the launch of a co-b more PR

LONDON, England, Aug. 19 (TNSjou) -- The Institute of Cancer Research issued the following news: * * * Scientists use Light and AI to measure DNA fragment length for the first time Scientists have shown that the length of DNA molecules can be measured using light and artificial intelligence (AI), opening up a potential new way to analyse genetic material. In the future, this could make important cancer screening tests more accessible around the world. Led by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the Optoelectronics Re more PR

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Aug. 18 -- Marshall University posted the following news release: * * * Marshall professor's research highlighted in leading astrophysics journal * Dr. Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton, a professor of physics in Marshall University's College of Science, has teamed up with Dr. Axel Gross of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and student Owen Odney of Purdue University to conduct research that has been published by The Astrophysical Journal. It can be found here. The publication is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed  more PR

PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand, Aug. 18 -- Massey University issued the following news release: * * * Massey Professor elected President of leading mathematics education research group Professor Jodie Hunter has been elected President of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). She is the first academic outside of Australia to lead the organisation in its 50-year history. - Professor Hunter, from the Institute of Education, will take up the role in early 2027. The appointment is a significant milestone for her as she more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Aug. 17 -- Montana State University issued the following news: * * * Montana State researchers reconstruct environmental history of Yellowstone's geyser basins * BOZEMAN - A study led by a Montana State University research professor reveals how climate and hydrothermal activity have shaped the vegetation, wildfire and aquatic ecosystem history of the Yellowstone Plateau over the past 15,000 years. The results of the National Science Foundation-funded project were published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Natio more PR

JERUSALEM, Israel, Aug. 19 -- The government of Israel issued the following news release: * * * NASA Seeks Medical Solutions for a Moon Base and Opens the Door (Also) to the Israeli Industry The call for proposals for medical monitoring and treatment of astronauts at a permanent lunar base represents an opportunity for Israeli researchers and start-ups to participate in the Artemis Program. - Ahead of the establishment of a permanent crewed base on the Moon as part of the Artemis Program, the U.S. space agency (NASA) has published an inter more PR

JERUSALEM, Israel, Aug. 18 (TNSjou) -- The government of Israel issued the following news release: * * * Now It's Scientific: The Israeli Development That Could Significantly Reduce Astronauts' Exposure to Radiation on the Way to the Moon and Mars A scientific paper published this evening on the cover of the prestigious journal Science Advances (https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/news/space-radiation26/en/MARE_AstroRad_Manuscript_Preprint.pdf) shows that the AstroRad vest developed by Israeli company StemRad and tested on NASA's Artemis I mission more PR

HONG KONG, Aug. 18 -- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University issued the following news release: * * * PolyU research team develops trustworthy AI framework TRUECAM to enhance reliability of pathology AI in cancer diagnosis * Cancer diagnoses directly affect treatment decisions and prognosis and can even have life-altering consequences. Traditional pathological diagnosis primarily relies on pathologists examining and analysing tissue slides under a microscope and making judgements based on their professional experience. In recent years, the ap more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 19 (TNSjou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Students Who View More Social Media Use More Products That Often Harbor Hormone-Disrupting Ingredients By Andrew Smith Personal care products are among the largest everyday sources of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and high schoolers who follow social media influencers or watch beauty tutorials seem to use considerably more of them, according to Rutgers researchers. In a Rutgers-led study published in the Journal of Exposure Scie more PR

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug. 19 -- Gettysburg College issued the following news: * * * Six Gettysburg faculty earn honors for mentorship, teaching excellence With passion and purpose, Gettysburg College professors remain committed to supporting students through mentorship and excellence in and out of the classroom. - Inspiring and empowering students to Do Great Work are hallmarks of Gettysburg College's first-class faculty. During the Spring 2026 semester, six faculty members were recognized for mentorship and teaching excellence. Lear more PR

EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin, Aug. 18 -- The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire campus posted the following news: * * * Six UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff recognized with excellence awards * The 2026 excellence awards, sponsored each year by Markquart Motors, were presented to: * Dr. Seungbin Oh, associate professor of accounting * Brian Drollinger, director of risk management, safety and sustainability * Dr. Pedro Sottile, professor and chair of accounting and finance * Dr. Dorothy Chan, associate professor of English * Nicole Owen, ac more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18 -- The University of Pennsylvania posted the following news: * * * Supersonic whale calls and special relativity * Standing on the sandy, windswept shores of Provincetown, Massachusetts, people may find themselves squinting at the horizon, waiting for a whale to make its grand entrance with a spectacular breach. On a good day, they might spot a couple. But for a more precise and consistent way to detect the presence of whales, oceanographers like John Spiesberger, a visiting scholar in the Department of  more PR

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Aug. 19 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * Search in Strange Quark Sector Reveals New Particle Possibilities Despite science's best efforts to classify the vast menagerie of subatomic particles discovered over the past few decades, some exotic varieties defy explanation. Now, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have found evidence of two unexpected structures that could help better more PR

LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Aug. 18 -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news: * * * UK graduate researcher leads landmark methamphetamine treatment systematic review * Publishing a paper in a top-tier journal is a major accomplishment for faculty members. For first-year graduate students, it's almost unheard of. Alexandra N. Johansen, a psychology Ph.D. student in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences, has done exactly that, serving as the lead author of a comprehensive systematic review recently published in Phar more PR

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 17 -- The University of Nebraska Omaha Campus posted the following news: * * * UNO Honorees Earn 2026 President's Excellence Awards * The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Department of Computer Science and Sajda Qureshi, Ph.D., have earned 2026 President's Excellence Awards, the University of Nebraska (NU) System's most prestigious faculty awards for teaching, research, engagement, and commercialization. The annual, systemwide President's Excellence Awards celebrate individuals and teams whose contributions have  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: * * * WTAS: HHS Releases Report Exposing Fraudulent Insurance Coding For Sex-rejecting Procedures On Minors * WASHINGTON, D.C. -August 18, 2026 -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday released a report Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of "Gender Medicine," a commissioned report examining insurance coding practices, perverse financial incentives, and the prov more PR