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Release date: 15-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
RPI Researchers Awarded $1.5M To Produce Hemp-Based Insulated Siding
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) will use hemp to develop a commercially viable, durable, and low-embodied-carbon insulated siding product to address what the U.S. Green Building Council says is a “crucial need for building retrofits to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.”

Newswise: Antioch College Achieves Federal Work College Designation, Paving the Way for Ohio’s First Work College
Released: 15-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Antioch College Achieves Federal Work College Designation, Paving the Way for Ohio’s First Work College
Antioch College

Antioch College now joins a select cohort of only ten other work colleges nationwide, solidifying its commitment to experiential learning, community engagement, and preparing students for meaningful careers.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
妙佑医疗国际 (Mayo Clinic) 连续六年在《新闻周刊》“全球最佳医院”排行榜夺魁
Mayo Clinic

妙佑医疗国际罗切斯特院区连续六年在《新闻周刊》“全球最佳医院”排行榜夺魁。妙佑医疗国际佛罗里达州院区和亚利桑那州院区也在评比中名列前茅。

Released: 14-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
With NASA support, device for future lunar mission being developed at WashU
Washington University in St. Louis

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a prototype for an instrument for a future Moon mission with support from a nearly $3 million grant from NASA.

Newswise: UCLA Health Taps Dr. Priscilla Hsue as Chief of the Cardiology Division
Released: 14-Mar-2024 2:30 PM EDT
UCLA Health Taps Dr. Priscilla Hsue as Chief of the Cardiology Division
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

The UCLA Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Priscilla Hsue, MD will be joining us as the chief of the Division of Cardiology at UCLA, effective July 1, 2024.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 2:30 PM EDT
Scott Armstrong named Senior Vice President for Drug Discovery and Chief Research Strategy Officer at Dana-Farber
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, has been named senior vice president for drug discovery and chief research strategy officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In this new role, he will lead Dana-Farber's institutional research strategy with an initial focus on therapeutic discovery work.

Newswise: Adapting Particle Accelerators for Industrial Work
Released: 14-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Adapting Particle Accelerators for Industrial Work
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab accelerator physicists are partnering with Fermilab, Florida International University, General Atomics and others to further develop compact, high-power, and energy-efficient SRF accelerators for work in industrial settings.

Newswise: New Leadership Appointment for Penn Nursing Professor
Released: 14-Mar-2024 12:00 PM EDT
New Leadership Appointment for Penn Nursing Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

PHILADELPHIA (March 14, 2024) – Catherine C. McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been appointed Chair of Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health effective July 1, 2024. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of the Department and the Dr. Hildegarde Reynolds Endowed Term Chair of Primary Care Nursing.

Released: 14-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Demystifying nano-neuro interactions
Washington University in St. Louis

Nanomaterials already play a vital role in enhancing the performance of everyday products from electronics to cosmetics to food packaging.

   
Newswise: Glaucoma Research Foundation Announces $2.5 Million in Grants to Cure Glaucoma
Released: 14-Mar-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Glaucoma Research Foundation Announces $2.5 Million in Grants to Cure Glaucoma
Glaucoma Research Foundation

“This is the largest annual research budget in our 46-year history,” said Thomas M. Brunner, GRF President and CEO.

Newswise: NSF boosts SMU engineer's AI learning research
Released: 14-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EDT
NSF boosts SMU engineer's AI learning research
Southern Methodist University

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded SMU engineering professor Digvijay Boob a five-year CAREER grant to pioneer quicker, streamlined solutions that could speed up how AI learns from data to make predictions and decisions.

Newswise: Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate
Released: 14-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate. The Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe is Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 PM EDT
Cedars-Sinai Launches Singapore Office
Cedars-Sinai

In its latest global expansion, Cedars-Sinai International announced the opening of its new global office in Singapore.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
MSU drives conversation, research on the future of work
Michigan State University

Michigan State University’s College of Social Science launched the Future of Work Initiative to address how technology will shape and change the future of work. To kick start this effort, the college held a conference convening those involved in the initiative with faculty from across MSU and representatives from community organizations to engage on this subject.

 
Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
NYU Tandon study exposes failings of measures to prevent illegal content generation by text-to-image AI models
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

In a paper that will be presented at the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), taking place in Vienna on May 7 - 11, 2024, an NYU Tandon research team demonstrates how techniques that claim to "erase" the ability of models like Stable Diffusion to generate explicit, copyrighted, or otherwise unsafe visual content can be circumvented through simple attacks.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
MacNeal Hospital Recognized for Excellence in Maternity Care by Blue Cross Blue Shield
Loyola Medicine

MacNeal Hospital is proud to be recognized by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois with a Blue Distinction® Centers+ (BDC+) for Maternity Care designation, as part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program.

Newswise: Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services
Hackensack Meridian Health

Muhlenberg Foundation Announces $700,000 Grant to the City of Plainfield to Fund Emergency Medical Services

Released: 13-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Radyus Research Forges Strategic Partnership with Southern Research to Propel Life Sciences Commercialization
Radyus Research

Radyus Research partners with Southern Research for an innovative alliance in the development of new drugs.

   
Released: 13-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
DOE’s Office of Science Is Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2024 Undergraduate Internships
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Applications are currently being accepted for the Fall 2024 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program.

   
Newswise: Teachers from across US invited to teach, live and play in West Virginia
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:30 AM EDT
Teachers from across US invited to teach, live and play in West Virginia
West Virginia University

Teachers Ascend into West Virginia, a first-of-its-kind national program based at West Virginia University and designed to attract teachers to the Mountain State, is now accepting applications.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Acclaimed Clinical Geneticist Dr. Bruce Korf Honored with 2024 David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics from the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine
American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)

Renowned clinical geneticist Bruce Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG, has been named the recipient of the 2024 ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine's David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics.

Newswise: Bristol leaps ahead in record £1 billion UK investment to train next generation of leaders to tackle major global challenges
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Bristol leaps ahead in record £1 billion UK investment to train next generation of leaders to tackle major global challenges
University of Bristol

Hundreds of talented scientists and engineers are set to advance solutions for some of the world’s most pressing challenges, ranging from reaching net-zero and developing sustainable energy to improving digital security and making the latest health breakthroughs.

Newswise: Renowned Professor Jean Salençon Explores Collaborative Opportunities at CityU HKIAS
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 AM EDT
Renowned Professor Jean Salençon Explores Collaborative Opportunities at CityU HKIAS
Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) hosted our Senior Fellow Professor Jean Salençon from 29th February to 20th March 2024. This visit brought together professors from various departments at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) for meaningful discussions and potential collaborations.

Newswise: Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory
Released: 12-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory
University of Utah Health

$2 million in total funds will accelerate interdisciplinary neurobiology research and scale up a search for new rules of human biochemistry.

   
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio, a new program that accelerates the development, validation and deployment of digital health solutions and integrates them into healthcare workflows.

Newswise: SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:00 PM EDT
SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
SLAS

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is pleased to announce Lan Mi, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Newswise: PPPL unveils new laboratory space to advance quantum information science
Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
PPPL unveils new laboratory space to advance quantum information science
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

On March 11, PPPL opened its new Quantum Diamond Lab, a space devoted to studying and refining the processes involved in using plasma, the electrically charged fourth state of matter, to create high-quality diamond material for quantum information science applications.

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Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:45 AM EDT
JMIR Dermatology Invites Submissions on Diversity in Dermatology
JMIR Publications

JMIR Publications is pleased to announce a new theme issue titled “Diversity in Dermatology” in JMIR Dermatology. The premier, peer-reviewed journal is indexed in Sherpa Romeo, Scopus, DOAJ, CABI, and PubMed Central/PubMed and is the official journal of the International Society of Digital Health in Dermatology (ISDHD).

Newswise: Mercy Expands Primary & Specialty Care Network with New Community Physician site in Ellicott City
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Mercy Expands Primary & Specialty Care Network with New Community Physician site in Ellicott City
Mercy Medical Center

As part of Mercy Health Services’ ongoing efforts to expand the reach of the 149-year Sisters of Mercy tradition of quality health care, Mercy has officially opened Mercy Personal Physicians at Ellicott City.

Newswise: São Paulo State University chooses Digital Science to help realize its potential for global and regional impact
Released: 12-Mar-2024 10:00 AM EDT
São Paulo State University chooses Digital Science to help realize its potential for global and regional impact
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

São Paulo State University (UNESP) has chosen Dimensions and Altmetric from Digital Science’s flagship products to advance its world-class research program.

   
Newswise: Mount Sinai Establishes Department of Public Health
12-Mar-2024 9:30 AM EDT
Mount Sinai Establishes Department of Public Health
Mount Sinai Health System

Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH, appointed inaugural Dean for Public Health and Chair of the new Department of Public Health to spearhead a state-of-the-art curriculum in public health research, education, and practice that will systematically integrate with medicine, population health, global health, neurosciences, environmental medicine, data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) disciplines.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Invitation to Cover: Perelman School of Medicine Students Meet Their Match
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

On Friday, March 15, the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate Match Day, the annual event that reveals where graduating medical students will head for residency programs to further their training.

   
Newswise: Prize of the Leopoldina for young scientist Jingyuan Xu from KIT
Released: 12-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Prize of the Leopoldina for young scientist Jingyuan Xu from KIT
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

With the Leopoldina Prize for young scientists 2023, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honors Dr. Jingyuan Xu, who researches novel heating and cooling technologies for the energy transition at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Currently, the young engineer can boast two more significant awards: the Hector RCD Award as well as admission to the Global Young Academy, an exclusive association of international young scientists.

Newswise: New device could improve pediatric concussion recovery
Released: 11-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New device could improve pediatric concussion recovery
Ohio State University

Researchers have received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to measure cognitive workload with a wearable sensor to monitor how children recover from a brain injury.

Newswise: Mercy Medical Center Physicians to See Patients in Collaboration with Frederick Gastroenterology Associates (FGA)
Released: 11-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Mercy Medical Center Physicians to See Patients in Collaboration with Frederick Gastroenterology Associates (FGA)
Mercy Medical Center

Mercy Medical Center digestive health, liver, obesity and GI cancer specialists will see patients in collaboration with Frederick Gastroenterology Associates (FGA), Paul J. Thuluvath, M.D., Chief, Division of Gastroenterology at Mercy, has announced.

   
Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
UMD Smith Offering Free Risk Assessment for Nonprofits, Small Firms
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Smith’s Justice for Fraud Victims project is providing pro bono control risk assessments. The work is CPA-supervised including under professor and JFV director Samuel Handwerger.

   
Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Modern Hydrogen CTO Max Mankin Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Max Mankin to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Concerto Biosciences CEO Cheri Ackerman Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Cheri Ackerman to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
10x Genomics CTO Michael Schnall-Levin Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Michael Schnall-Levin to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Technology Leader Alfred Spector Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Alfred Spector to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; and Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Cybersecurity Pioneer Steven Lipner Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Steven B. Lipner to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:45 AM EDT
SLU Professor Recognized By AUPHA for Excellence in Health Education
Saint Louis University

Kimberly R. Enard, PhD, MSHA, MBA, FACHE, associate professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice (CPHSJ) at Saint Louis University, made history when she was named the 2024 John D. Thompson Prize Recipient by the Association of University Programs for Health Administration for her excellence in health education and administration, becoming the first African-American and the first SLU faculty member to receive this award.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Five Science and Technology Leaders Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of five new members to its board of directors: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; Michael Schnall-Levin, founding scientist and CTO, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Cancer researchers awarded $3.2 million grant to find better ways to treat advanced melanoma
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A team of investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute was awarded a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify new ways to prevent and overcome treatment resistance to targeted therapy in patients with all sub-types of cutaneous melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Establishes Institute for Equity and Justice in Health Sciences Education
Mount Sinai Health System

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced today the establishment of the Institute for Equity and Justice in Health Sciences Education. The Institute will expand upon Icahn Mount Sinai’s anti-racist, anti-biased learning and training environment in medical and graduate education.

   
Newswise: Bringing the Sense of Touch to Create a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Bringing the Sense of Touch to Create a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) is partnering government-funded research institutes and universities to create a hyper-realistic metaverse that can be touched.

Released: 8-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EST
SMART Global Congress Set to Meet in Namibia, March 10-14
Wildlife Conservation Society

The SMART Partnership is pleased to announce the inaugural SMART Global Congress in Windhoek, Namibia from 10-14 March 2024.

Newswise: Sylvester Cancer, NANETS Partner to Present Regional Conference on Multidisciplinary Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Released: 8-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST
Sylvester Cancer, NANETS Partner to Present Regional Conference on Multidisciplinary Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society will present a regional educational conference on April 6 focusing on neuroendocrine tumors (NET) and the latest knowledge for optimal NET management.

Newswise: ECHO Project Uncovers How the Environment Shapes Kids’ Health
Released: 8-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST
ECHO Project Uncovers How the Environment Shapes Kids’ Health
University of Utah Health

The study has led to more than a hundred scientific papers and recently received $14M in grant funding.

Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Health Breaks Ground On First In the Nation Health & Wellness Center At A Transit Hub, Bringing Comprehensive, Convenient and Easily Accessible Healthcare To New Jersey Transit’s Metropark Station
Released: 8-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EST
Hackensack Meridian Health Breaks Ground On First In the Nation Health & Wellness Center At A Transit Hub, Bringing Comprehensive, Convenient and Easily Accessible Healthcare To New Jersey Transit’s Metropark Station
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive health network, is breaking ground on a first of its kind health care facility at a mass transit hub.



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