IRVING, Texas, June 26 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: A total of 604 student-athletes have been named to the 2024 Winter Academic All-Big 12 Team. There were 506 Big 12 athletes honored on the First Team, with 60 of those posting 4.0 grade point averages. An additional 98 student-athletes earned Second Team distinction. "We are thrilled to honor Big 12 student-athletes for their academic success," Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said. "The  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Michigan, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced that the University of Michigan will receive $21,152,599 in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for project areas including translational impacts, social and economic sciences, electrical communication and cyber systems, and more. $3,856,463 of this funding will be dedicated to the Division of Ocean Sciences to conduct research wi  more

MANOA, Hawaii, June 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: As more attention is drawn to possible severe weather around the world scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa are looking to improve planning for possible droughts, floods and other scenarios. Researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) created a new tool that will allow forecasting of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) by up to 18 months. The   more

BERKELEY, California, June 27 -- The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Energy Sciences Network issued the following news on June 25, 2024: Decades before the COVID-19 pandemic normalized remote work and turned Zoom into a global juggernaut, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) employees have been telecommuting. Back in January 1997, when Joseph Metzger joined ESnet, 60% of ESnet employees were already doing so one to three days a week from the dedicated "teleworking center" in Livermore, Calif  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has announced two new initiatives to foster innovation and growth in the engineering and technical communities of the lab. The Office of High Energy Physics, within the Department of Energy's Office of Science, has granted Fermilab, a DOE laboratory, $2 million to fund these two initiatives over the next five years. Chief Engineer  more

PERTH, Australia, June 26 -- The University of Western Australia issued the following news: Four projects to improve STEM learning in schools, design foundations for fine-grained soil, develop uncooled infrared detectors and make the lithium refining process greener have received Federal Government funding. The University of Western Australia projects received more than $3.7 million in funding in round two of the Australian Research Council's linkage project scheme. Emeritus Professor David B  more

GRONINGEN, The Netherlands, June 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Groningen issued the following news: In recognition of outstanding research in the field of Natural Sciences, Dr. Casper van der Kooi will receive the Heineken Young Scientists Award. Van der Kooi studies how flowers and animals such as butterflies get their colors and how those colors are used to attract pollinators or mates. According to the jury, his work is scientifically advanced and of great social value. The prize is an un  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, June 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Audrey Rips-Goodwin, an Overland Park senior in chemistry and mathematics, is the University of Kansas' 2024 Astronaut Scholar -- an award of up to $15,000. Rips-Goodwin was also named an Astronaut Scholar in 2023. "The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has provided me with support and guidance for my academic and research endeavors. I am extremely honored to be awarded the Astronaut Scholarship and gratef  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending May 31, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending May 31, 2024 Plutonium Facility-Radiological Control: Last Tuesday, workers attempted to move an empty fissile material transfer cart out from between two gloveboxes i  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Scientists used powerful modeling software to find patterns in the continuous seismic waveforms during a series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes * * * A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory used machine learning -- an application of artificial intelligence -- to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kilauea volcano in Hawa  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 26 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: NASA and its international partners operate several Earth-observing satellites that closely follow one another along the same, or very similar, orbital track. Here, a coordinated group of satellites is in a sun-synchronous polar orbit, crossing the equator in an ascending northbound direction at about 1:30 p.m. local solar time -- hence the name Afternoon Constellation. The UW Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, June 26 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: Oklahoma State University will honor two individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to agricultural sciences and natural resources. Ronald Elliott and Harvey Schroeder are the 2024 Champion for OSU Agriculture Award recipients. They will be recognized during the OSU Agriculture Honors ceremony on Oct. 11. "These individuals embody the ideals and mission of OSU Agriculture and support our rich tradition a  more

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, June 27 -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news: The polymer technology workforce received a boost, thanks to recent training hosted by the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Hands-On Thermoforming Workshop covered the basics of thermoforming - one of the major industrial plastics processes - for 20 participants, representing 13 companies, seven states, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago. The th  more

SYRACUSE, New York, June 26 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Eric Coughlin, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded a grant from NASA for his project entitled, "Extragalactic Outbursts and Repeating Nuclear Flares From Tidal Disruption Events." The three-year, $346,000 award will support his research on tidal disruption events (TDEs)--one of the cosmos' most extreme occurrences where a star is completely or partially destroyed by the gravi  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety released the following written testimony by Gracelin Baskaran, director of the Project on Critical Minerals Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, from a June 12, 2024, hearing entitled "Digging Deeper: Building Our Critical Minerals Workforce": * * * Chairman Hickenlooper, Ranking Member Braun, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am hono  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The Society for Science, an organization that promotes the understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement, issued the following news release on June 26, 2024: Today, Society for Science named five new members to its Honorary Board. Honorary Board members are elected by the Society's Board of Trustees to provide strategic guidance and input on scientific issues important to the Society's mission. The board members include disting  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- The American Institute of Physics issued the following news release: * * * Top prize for leadership in physics to be awarded to Stanford professor, Nobel laureate, and former Secretary of Energy for outstanding impact on our nation's physical sciences enterprise. * * * The American Institute of Physics is proud to announce Steven Chu, former Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate, as the winner of AIP's 2024 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics. Named a  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 27 (TNSres) -- Florida State University issued the following news: By Bill Wellock Quantum computers have the potential to be revolutionary tools for their ability to perform calculations that would take classical computers many years to resolve. But to make an effective quantum computer, you need a reliable quantum bit, or qubit, that can exist in a simultaneous 0 or 1 state for a sufficiently long period, known as its coherence time. One promising approach is tra  more