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McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston reached a funding landmark with 15 faculty members awarded 16 different grants totaling more than $31 million between August and October 2023. Each grant has a focus on medical artificial intelligence (AI) innovations and advancements in research or health care.

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Five researchers and professors from Michigan State University have been recognized in the “2023 Highly Cited Researchers” list, a ranking organized annually by Clarivate Analytics.

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Stony Brook University Professor Kevin Reed has been appointed Associate Provost for Climate and Sustainability Programming, as announced by Executive Vice President and Provost Carl Lejuez.

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As part of a five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Adriana Pérez, PhD, professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science with UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, received a $1.9 million subcontract to determine the scope and drivers of low-value and unequal care for patients with Parkinson’s disease and Parkinson’s disease dementia.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two Sandia National Laboratories employees will soon join the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics class of 2024 as associate fellows.

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SLU’s sensory room, located in the Busch Student Center, is a safe space designed to provide room for individuals with a sensory processing disorder to decompress and cope with sensory issues in a productive way.

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A new NIH award to Wayne State University aims to understand the early events around critical cell death that cause motor deficits, and ultimately, provide understanding for the development of much-needed therapies for prevention of motor deficits from congenital BH4 deficiency and CP.

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Beginning in July 2024, pediatric interns will begin ACGME-accredited residency training at Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans, with newborn nursery and neonatology rotations at Ochsner Baptist.

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Irvine, Calif., Nov. 15, 2023 — A $5 million gift from University of California, Irvine Foundation trustee Stacey Nicholas to The Henry Samueli School of Engineering will endow and rename a campus program that supports the recruitment, retention and graduation of students to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math.

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Twelve current investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University are on this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited the most frequently by other researchers.

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To help mitigate the world’s biodiversity crisis, Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory has recruited Harris Lewin, a prominent genome scientist currently spearheading one of biology’s most ambitious ‘moonshot’ goals, a complete DNA catalog of the genetic code for life on Earth by the end of this decade.

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The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2023 honor by Chicago Tribune Top Workplaces. This is the second time since 2021 AANA has received this honor.

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University Hospitals (UH) and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) extended the reach of their July 2022 major affiliation agreement. The organizations aim to build on their early successes through their major affiliation and have identified significant opportunities to collaborate throughout this year and beyond.

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Anthony Atala, MD, FACS, a distinguished pediatric urologist from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been named the new Chair of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Board of Regents. The announcement of his election to a one-year term came following the ACS Clinical Congress 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Zymo Research receives FDA clearance for DNA/RNA Shield™ SafeCollect™ Saliva Collection Kit.

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The Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy and the Icahn Genomics Institute (IGI) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health to establish a state-of-the-art center dedicated to the discovery and development of cutting-edge targets for cancer therapy.

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Sarosh Rana, MD, MPH has been named the inaugural Chief Obstetrical Transformation Officer for the University of Chicago Medicine health system.

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AIP Publishing and the Journal of Rheology congratulate Norman J. Wagner, Julie B. Hipp, and Jeffrey J. Richards, winners of the 2023 Journal of Rheology Publication Award for their paper, “Direct measurements of the microstructural origin of shear-thinning in carbon black suspensions.” The winning paper demonstrates how shearing forces impact the microstructure responsible for viscosity in suspensions containing carbon black, a material used in energy storage. The paper also provides a quantitative master curve which relates the material’s properties to how it may behave under stress.

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The nationally ranked Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Binghamton University, State University of New York's School of Management recently earned a STEM designation, reflecting the increased importance of data analytics and technology in all facets of the business curriculum.

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Georgetown University Medical Center’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announces the launch of a first-of-its-kind wildlife disease database -- a system for collecting records of viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, etc. -- designed to support an early warning system for potential viral emergence.

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Iowa State received the top Innovation and Economic Prosperity University Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. The university also ranked first in Iowa in The Princeton Review’s 2024 annual survey of undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies.

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Talk on the Filangieri-Franklin Correspondence will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on November 16, 2023.

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American University recognized its most generous donors this evening at the President’s Circle event for their leadership giving and unwavering commitment to AU. As is tradition, the event included a presentation of AU’s highest honor, the Cyrus A. Ansary Medal.

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The academic medical center joins Hackensack University Medical Center as one of few hospitals in the country to provide MRI-guided focused ultrasound to treat essential tremors, Parkinson’s disease related tremor and Parkinson’s disease that has not responded to medications

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Recognizing the challenges of running sophisticated applications including complex simulations, data analytics, artificial intelligence and heterogenous workflows at scale in hybrid computing environments, multiple institutions are forming an open-source community -- OCHAMI -- to develop and support a framework for better systems management.

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This year, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses,awarded three AACN Impact Research Grants up to $50,000 each and the AACN-Sigma Critical Care Grant with up to $10,000 in funding. Since launching the grants program in 2011, AACN has awarded more than $1.4 million in funding and 33 Impact Research Grants.

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The James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson hosted its inaugural scientific symposium on Nov. 10, bringing together more than 400 leading scientists in immunotherapy and immunobiology.

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Led by internationally renowned experts in pregnancy health, the U.S.-based study seeks to understand how RNA messages found in expectant mothers’ blood can predict life-threatening pregnancy complications.

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The American Physical Society welcomed three new Fellows from Argonne — Dillon Fong, Katrin Heitmann and Ahren Jasper.

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IU School of Medicine researchers are taking steps to improve the accessibility and quality of care for adolescents experiencing opioid use disorder (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUDs), thanks to a new $5 million grant from the National Institute of Health's Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Initiative.

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UWF Center for Cybersecurity received a $1.5 million contract from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to expand the CyberSkills2Work program, an intensive cybersecurity training program designed to help individuals launch or advance cybersecurity careers.

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Kimberly Glassman, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL, FAAN, has been appointed as the new Dean of the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing.

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The Sine Institute of Policy & Politics at American University 2024 class of Spring Fellows and Distinguished Lecturers brings together changemakers from government, business, space exploration, foreign policy, advocacy, and the media.

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Irvine, Calif., Nov. 13, 2023 — The Basic Needs Center at the University of California, Irvine will unveil its new mobile food pantry, a 22-foot-long customized delivery van, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Pereira Drive roundabout in front of the Aldrich Hall flagpoles. The first 200 attendees will receive collapsible Tupperware products.

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Matt Walsh has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer for RUSH. Walsh was selected following a national search and will assume his new position in January 2024. He currently serves as the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Geisinger in Pennsylvania.

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Representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) have signed a "Statement of Interest" to launch what both agencies hope will be a significant collaboration on the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) is proud to announce three innovative investigators as the recipients of this year’s Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research.

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Learn more about the 13 recommendations developed by the CSU’s Black Student Success Workgroup.

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The biennial prize recognizes a new generation of leaders in cancer research

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Nikhil Koratkar, Ph.D., John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Koratkar was recognized for his pioneering contributions to the field of nanoscale science and technology and the use of nanoscale materials in composites and energy storage devices.

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The American Association of Physicists in Medicine is pleased to announce C. David Gammel as its incoming Executive Director.

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Tuesday, November 14, is Diabetes Alert Day.

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Smith College Physics Department has earned a Bronze Award from the Physics and Astronomy SEA Change Committee for their work to create a more inclusive and diverse physics department.

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The National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) are joining efforts to expand the capabilities of the world’s most powerful millimeter/ submillimeter telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

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Demand is growing for organic cotton in the U.S., but imports continue to pick up the slack of inadequate domestic production. A new project led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research aims to turn the situation around by identifying the challenges to and opportunities for U.S. organic cotton growers.

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Globus, the de facto standard platform for research IT, announced today the general availability of Globus for Dropbox. The new premium connector allows users to access Dropbox cloud storage, thereby enabling a unified interface for data transfer, sharing, task automation and publication across all of the organization’s storage systems.