TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 17 -- The University of Arizona's Health Sciences issued the following news release: * * * $1.7M DOD grant funds virtual cancer center to support research into military health The Convergent Science Virtual Cancer Center supports researchers and strengthens expertise in cancer risks faced by military personnel, veterans and their families. * A University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher received a $1.7 million grant from the Department of Defense to c more PR

NEW YORK, Sept. 17 -- Barnard College issued the following news: * * * Nobel Laureate to Students: Not Understanding Something is the Key to Science Third Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Donna Strickland Inspires Women to Pursue Science * Speaking to a packed room of Barnard students, faculty, alumnae, and science enthusiasts, physicist Donna Strickland shared details of the research that helped her win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Strickland, a professor in the Department of Physi more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Sept. 17 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * Five Years Through the Lens of Discovery: UC San Diego Library Celebrates Art of Science Anniversary New exhibition at Geisel Library presents the 2025 Art of Science winners alongside past contest images, highlighting the transformative research driving scientific advancements at UC San Diego By Nikki Kolupailo - nkolupailo@ucsd.edu What happens when science meets art? This fall more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake * The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of underground rocks. But exactly how much energy goes into each of these three processes is exceedingly difficult, if not imposs more PR

PASADENA, California, Sept. 16 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New AI Technique Unravels Quantum Atomic Vibrations in Materials * Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of the quantum interactions that take place in materials. In new work, the group focuses on interactions among atomic vibrations, or phonons--interactions that govern a wide range of material properties, more PR

ITHACA, New York, Sept. 16 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Nozomi Ando named to Schmidt Polymaths cohort * Nozomi Ando, professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Schmidt Polymath, part of a global cohort of eight scientists and engineers who will each receive up to $2.5 million over five years. The program supports scientists with "remarkable track records, promising futures and a desire to expand their research more PR

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Sept. 16 -- Oklahoma State University posted the following news: * * * OSU Microscopy Facility hosts Atomic Force Microscopy workshop * Media Contact: Sydney Trainor | Communications and Media Relations Specialist | 405-744-9782 | sydney.trainor@okstate.edu Oklahoma State University welcomed Oxford Instruments/Asylum Research to campus Aug. 8 and 9 for a two-day Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) workshop, offering researchers hands-on experience with one of the facility's more PR

STONY BROOK, New York, Sept. 17 -- The State University of New York's Stony Brook University issued the following news release: * * * Stony Brook University Receives $13.77M NSF Grant to Deploy a National Supercomputer to Democratize Access to Artificial Intelligence and Research Computing Grant Includes Collaboration with the University at Buffalo * The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $13.77 million grant to Stony Brook University's Institute for Advanced Computational more PR

TROY, Alabama, Sept. 17 -- Troy University issued the following news: * * * Troy professor receives over $500K grant to research ways to test safety of recycled plastics Troy University Chemistry and Physics professor Dr. Shaoyang Liu has been awarded a $534,194 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support his research into developing reliable methods to test recycled plastics for toxic residues and hazardous chemicals. His research, titled "RUI: Sensitive and Rapid Detection more PR

LA JOLLA, California, Sept. 17 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * UC San Diego Plays Key Role in National Effort to Build a Fusion Research Data Platform San Diego Supercomputer Center leads UC San Diego's efforts on this project designed to accelerate development of domestic commercial fusion energy. By Kimberly Mann Bruch - kbruch@ucsd.edu Scientists at General Atomics (GA) are leading a new multi-institution initiative to create a standardiz more PR