VILLANOVA, Pennsylvania, May 29 (TNSres) -- Villanova University issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced the Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for 2024-25, with 18 Villanova University students and alumni receiving the competitive grant. In addition to the 18 award recipients, six Villanovans were selected as alternates and 10 earned recognition as semi-finalists. The Fulbright Program is the U.S.  more

OAK BROOK, Illinois, May 29 -- Ace Hardware, a retailer-owned hardware cooperative, issued the following news: Ace Hardware Corporation, the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the world, announced changes to the company's Board of Directors following its 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Following the annual shareholder meeting on May 14, shareholders elected member directors Megan Hamilton and James (Jimmy) Nichols to their first term on the company's Board of Directors. "I am  more

NEW YORK, May 29 -- ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, a peer-reviewed journal from the Association for Computing Machinery that says it features interactions of information processing, networking and physical processes, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 8, Issue 2): Research-Article: * Introduction to the Special Issue on Automotive CPS Safety & Security: Part 2 * EVScout2.0: Electric Vehicle Profiling through Charging Profile * Con  more

PASADENA, California, May 28 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Caltech honored 213 staff members on May 22 at the 69th Staff Service & Impact Awards ceremony held in Beckman Auditorium. Julia McCallin, associate vice president for human resources and chief human resources officer--who was herself among the 20-year honorees--served as emcee for the event, which honored staff members for their contributions to Caltech's research and education mission. McCallin   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 28 -- HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC., Houston, Texas has been assigned a patent (No. US 11994647 B2, initially filed Dec. 14, 2021) developed by three inventors Mayir Mamtimin, Spring, Texas; Jeffrey James Crawford, Katy, Texas; and Weijun Guo, Houston, Texas, for "Compensated formation saturation using assisted physics and neural networks."  more

BASEL, Switzerland, May 29 -- Environmental Chemistry Letters, a peer-reviewed journal from the Association of Chemistry and the Environment that says it covers the interfaces of geology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 22, Issue 3): * Ozone poisoning in research laboratories and in the industry * Predicted tenfold increase of hydrogen solubility in water under pore confinement * Species-specific deformation of  more

KENNESAW, Georgia, May 29 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release: Growing up with an interest in space exploration, Casey Hampson knew physics would take him a long way. The Kennesaw State University rising junior has fulfilled that promise, accepting a research opportunity this summer at CERN in Switzerland, one of 15 students from the United States. "I'm really quite astonished I made it in," Hampson said. "Being around all those really smart people, studying all tho  more

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, May 29 (TNSres) -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: * * * Scientists have come a step closer to identifying the mysterious origins of the 'slow' solar wind, using data collected during the Solar Orbiter spacecraft's first close journey to the Sun. * * * Solar wind, which can travel at hundreds of kilometres per second, has fascinated scientists for years, and new research published in Nature Astronomy, is finally shedding light on how it  more

NEW YORK, May 29 (TNSres) -- New York University issued the following news release: * * * Collaboration aims to enhance performance of electronics, sensors, and computing capabilities * * * New York University's Center for Quantum Information Physics and the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have established a collaboration to develop superconductor and semiconductor materials, which could be used to enhance performance of electronics, quantum sensors, and computing capabilitie  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Harnessing energy from plasma requires a precise understanding of its behavior during fusion to keep it hot, dense and stable. A new theoretical model about a plasma's edge, which can become unstable and bulge, brings the prospect of commercial fusion power closer to reality. "The model refines the thinking on stabilizing the edge of the plasma for different tokamak sha  more

BRISBANE, Australia, May 29 (TNSres) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: Professor Hongxia Wang has received a prestigious $3,023,860 ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship for a project to make next-generation perovskite-based solar cells more durable using molecular engineering. The research project, entitled 'Molecular engineering and doping for efficient and affordable solar cells', aims to develop a process for the ultra-low-cost production of perovskite sola  more

PASADENA, California, May 28 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Materials scientists and engineers would like to know precisely how electrons interact and move in new materials and how the devices made with them will behave. Will the electrical current flow easily within the material? Is there a temperature at which the material will become superconducting, enabling current to flow without a power source? How long will the quantum state of an electron spin be p  more

BOULDER, Colorado, May 29 -- Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Today at CU Boulder's JILA Research Institute, Governor Polis signed historic legislation that supports and strengthens Colorado's nation-leading quantum industry. Governor Polis signed HB24-1325 - Tax Credits for Quantum Industry Support, sponsored by Representatives Alex Valdez and Matt Soper, and Senators Jeff Bridges and Mark Baisley which provides $74 million dollars for fully refu  more

HONG KONG, May 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has received funding for three research projects under the Research, Academic, and Industry Sectors One-plus Scheme (RAISe+), as announced by the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) today (May 28). The awarded projects focus on developing immunotherapeutic drugs and innovative light-emitting materials. Launched in October 2023, the RAISe+ scheme aims to unlock t  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 29 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Amanda Rubalcava Two University of California San Diego professors have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. Nigel Goldenfeld, a Chancellor's distinguished professor of physics, and Mark H. Thiemens, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, were among the more than 90 exception  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 29 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Story by: Debra Bass UC San Diego celebrated a significant milestone with the opening of its new Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve Field Station and Community Learning Center. The facility, located at the heart of the marsh, represents a major step forward in the university's commitment to environmental research, education, and community engagement. It will include two bedrooms for researchers c  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 29 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: As embryos grow from conception to birth, cells multiply rapidly and move in a highly organized manner to create the skeleton, organs and other crucial systems. But how do cells know to move in precisely the right direction at the right time to create a fully formed, complex living organism? This is a deeply challenging question for scientists. To help uncover the answer, Universit  more

BRISTOL, England, May 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * Researchers at the University of Bristol have made an important breakthrough in scaling quantum technology by integrating the world's tiniest quantum light detector onto a silicon chip. * * * A critical moment in unlocking the information age was when scientists and engineers were first able to miniaturise transistors onto cheap micro-chips in the 1960s. Now, for the first time, Universit  more

BRISTOL, England, May 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * Ten ambitious academics have been named as the University of Bristol's first cohort of Early Career Enterprise Fellowships (ECEF). * * * The ECEF award aims to support early career researchers to gain the skills necessary to make progress in commercialising University intellectual property, providing training, dedicated support and funds. The new initiative has been spearheaded by Associa  more