ITHACA, New York, May 30 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Beginning in the fall semester of 2024, the Active Learning Initiative (ALI) will support three teaching postdoctoral fellows for the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the College of Engineering and the Departments of Physics and Mathematics, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, as part of the ALI's Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant Program at Cornell. The grants support a teaching postdoctoral fellow a  more

WESTERVILLE, Ohio, May 31 -- The American Ceramic Society has announced the following event: American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS 2024) DETAILS Start: June 23 @ 4:00 pm EDT End: June 27 @ 5:00 pm EDT VENUE Crowne Plaza Knoxville Downtown University, an IHG Hotel, 401 W Summit Hill Dr SW, Knoxville, TN 37902 United States + Google Map American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS 2024) The conference will take place June 23 - 27, 2024 in Knoxville, TN, USA at the Crowne Plaza!  more

LONDON, England, May 31 -- Astronomy and Geophysics, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Astronomical Society that says it features astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, solar-terrestrial physics, global and regional geophysics, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 65, Issue 3): NEWS: * News in Astronomy & Geophysics - June 2024 FEATURES: * Comets and culture in the 19th century and beyond * Solid-Liquid Interactions in Deep   more

WEST POINT, New York, May 31 -- The U.S. Military Academy issued the following community news: Approximately 50 fifth graders from the West Point Elementary School took a field trip to Bartlett Hall May 29 to experience a science adventure with professors and instructors from the Chemistry and Life Sciences (CLS) and Physics and Nuclear Engineering (PANE) Departments. Academy professors Lt. Col. Andy Kick (CLS) and Lt. Col. Will Koch (PANE) organized the event with WPES Fifth-Grade Science Tea  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 30 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: The Big Ten Academic Alliance's (BTAA) Department Executive Officers (DEO) program has gained five additional fellows from the Penn State ranks. The BTAA is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the United States' preeminent model for effective collaboration among research universities. Through its leadership program, participants who have demonstrated exceptional ability through  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- JGR-Oceans, a journal that says it embraces the application of physics, chemistry, biology and geology to the study of the oceans and their interaction with other components of the Earth system from the American Geophysical Union, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 129, Issue 6): Research Article: * Observations of Barrier Layer Seasonal Variation in the Banda Sea * Multiple Lagrangian Jet-Core Structures in the Malvinas C  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it advances in physical chemistry, chemical physics and materials science, published research articles on the following topics in its May 30, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 21): Perspectives: * Tuning Surface Organic Structures by Small Gas Molecules through Catassembly and Coassembly Physical Insights into Quantum Phenomena and Function: * Simulation of Chemic  more

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, May 30 -- The University of Notre Dame issued the following news: Andrew Langford University of Notre Dame alumnus Andrew Langford has been named one of 18 Hertz Fellowship recipients for the 2024 application cycle. He is Notre Dame's second Hertz fellow overall and first since 2010. Presented by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, the Hertz fellowship identifies doctoral students with the extraordinary creativity and principled leadership necessary to tackle problems o  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, May 30 -- Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news: Three Air Force Institute of Technology military faculty members recently received senior military faculty (SMF) status within the Graduate School of Engineering and Management. As SMF members, Lt. Col. Robert Bettinger, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Maj. Daniel Emmons, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics; and Lt. Col. Milo Hyde, Ph.D., Professor of Optical Physics, will r  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, May 30 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: The heart of this study is a fiber microcavity. Here, one can see a small concave depression in the surface of an optical fiber. The researchers used a microcavity with two concave mirrors, but this image of a single concave microcavity makes it easier to see the fiber mirror setup. Photo by Carlos Saavedra/UW-Madison Randy Goldsmith Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have develo  more