Physics Tipoffs from TNS
$2.8 Million NSF Grant Will Expand AI Education and Research Opportunities for Students
SAN DIEGO, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- San Diego State University issued the following news:
By Susanne Clara Bard
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)'s ExpandAI program last week awarded San Diego State University a $2.8 million, four-year grant to enhance the existing artificial intelligence infrastructure, education and research capacity and prepare students for careers in AI.
The project, "PARTNER: Expanding AI Capacity in San Diego: A Strategic Collaboration between San Diego S
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A Conversation: Boston University President Melissa L. Gilliam on First Impressions, Challenges, and Ambitions
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 2 -- Boston University issued the following Q&A on July 1, 2024, with President Melissa L. Gilliam:
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By Doug Most
Throughout its 185-year history, Boston University has had just 10 presidents. On Monday, July 1, 2024, Melissa L. Gilliam, a physician, a researcher in public health, medicine, and the humanities, and a higher education leader for two decades, took office as BU's 11th president.
Since being named as the next president in fall 2023, she has travel
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ACES: Shavonne Mott, 2023 Holden Diversity Fellow, is Right Where She's Supposed to Be
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Illinois, July 2 -- ACES-The Society for Editing issued the following news:
Shavonne Mott, a 2023 Holden Diversity Fellow, works for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory but she can't talk about it.
Some things she can say:
* Working with engineers is an ongoing theme in her life.
* Her professional experience as a technical writer has come in handy, as has a previous office administration job.
* Her master's degree in creative technology from Middlesex
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Applied Physics Letters Issues Research Articles in July 1, 2024 Edition
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, July 3 -- Applied Physics Letters, a journal from the American Institute of Physics, published research articles on the following topics in its July 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 125, Issue 1):
PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS:
* Interband cascade light-emitting diodes grown on silicon substrates using GaSb buffer layer
* Transient amplification due to non-Hermitian interference of dissipative supermodes
* Extending femtosecond laser superfilamentation in air with a multifocal
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Association of American Universities: Global Research-Intensive Universities Issue Joint Call for Collaboration on Shared Challenges
WASHINGTON, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Association of American Universities issued the following joint statement on July 1, 2024:
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The following is a joint statement issued by the American Association of Universities, German U15, Group of Eight (Australia), League of European Research Universities (LERU), RU11 (Japan), Russell Group (UK) and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities. The statement reaffirms the principles of the Global Research-Intensive Universities Network (GRIUN), in
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Biomolecular Condensate 'Molecular Putty' Properties Found Encoded in Protein Sequence
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 3 (TNSres) -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital issued the following news release:
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Washington University at St. Louis found how condensates behave like viscoelastic putty and age to more solid states.
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Biomolecular condensates are membraneless hubs of condensed proteins and nucleic acids within cells, which researchers are realizing are tied to an incre
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Brian Cox to Receive CFI's Richard Dawkins Award at CSICon 2024 on October 24
AMHERST, New York, July 3 -- The Center for Inquiry issued the following news release:
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is proud to announce it will honor Brian Cox with the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award on Thursday, October 24. The award is presented annually to a distinguished individual from the worlds of science, scholarship, education, or entertainment who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead.
"I am delighted to recei
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Caltech's Submillimeter Observatory Has Been Removed from Maunakea
PASADENA, California, July 2 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
The final components of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (CSO), including its foundation, silver geodesic dome, and on-site buildings, have been removed from a valley atop Maunakea in Hawai'i, and the land at the site has been restored. This officially concludes the physical decommissioning of CSO, a process that was initiated in 2015 and began in earnest in 2022 in accordance with the State o
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Cosmic Simulation Reveals How Black Holes Grow and Evolve
PASADENA, California, July 2 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
A team of astrophysicists led by Caltech has managed for the first time to simulate the journey of primordial gas dating from the early universe to the stage at which it becomes swept up in a disk of material fueling a single supermassive black hole. The new computer simulation upends ideas about such disks that astronomers have held since the 1970s and paves the way for new discoveries about how b
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DREEM Grant and UMD Partnership Has CSM Alum Kyle Nielsen Dreaming Big About His Future in Microelectronics
LA PLATA, Maryland, July 3 -- The College of Southern Maryland issued the following news:
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"Kyle's achievements are extraordinary for any student, but particularly for a second-year community college student."
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At the College of Southern Maryland (CSM) commencement ceremonies, graduates are often encouraged to dream big. But for one recent graduate, the path to success has involved dreaming tiny - specifically, on the cellular level.
Kyle Nielsen, who graduated from CSM this sprin
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Foundations of Physics Issues Research Articles in Aug. 2024 Edition
NEW YORK, July 3 -- Foundations of Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it is devoted to the conceptual bases and fundamental theories of modern physics, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 2024 edition (Vol. 54, Issue 4):
* Comment on Aurelien Drezet's Defense of Relational Quantum Mechanics
* Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy's Theorem Revisited
The Aug. 2024 edition of Foundations of Physics can be viewed at https://link.springer.com/
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Gas Stove Pollution Research by Yannai Kashtan '20 Gains National Attention
CLAREMONT, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- Pomona College issued the following news:
"When you talk stoves, people listen," says Yannai Kashtan '20.
While not the most exciting topic for a Ph.D. research project, years of studying the ubiquitous household appliance at Stanford University revealed to Kashtan and others that gas stoves may be contributing to premature deaths and cases of childhood asthma.
A study co-authored with peers at Stanford and Oakland-based research institute PSE Healthy
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Hospital Pediatric Issues Research Articles in July 2024 Edition
ITASCA, Illinois, July 3 -- Hospital Pediatric, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Academy of Pediatrics, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 14, Issue 7):
Research Articles:
* Association Between Gender and Salary Among Pediatric Hospital Medicine Physicians
* Gender Communication Differences on a Pediatric Provider Listserv
* Food Insecurity and Community-Based Food Resources Among Caregivers of Hospitalized Children
* Pediatric Vital
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Husker Projects Advance Study of Soil Moisture, Hydrology
LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 3 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release:
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is now home to a neutron monitor, a sophisticated device that provides a crucial service by enabling correct real-time soil moisture and hydrology readings in Nebraska and nationwide. The monitor is only the third such device in the United States, and the only one located outside the East Coast.
The soil moisture corrections the device enables ar
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IUCrJ Issues Research Articles in July 2024 Edition
CHESTER, England, July 3 -- IUCrJ, a peer-reviewed journal from the International Union of Crystallography that says it covers biology and medicine, chemistry and crystal engineering, physics and free electron laser science and technology, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 11, Part 4):
Editorial:
* Chemistry and crystal engineering
* Scientific Commentaries:
* Chromic and dynamic: soft crystals of platinum(II) complexes pave the way for multi-
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Develop AI-Enhanced Navigation System for Visually Impaired
LAUREL, Maryland, July 2 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release:
Researchers from two Johns Hopkins divisions -- the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and the Whiting School of Engineering in Baltimore -- have collaborated to develop a navigation system that enables blind or visually impaired users to navigate their surroundings with greater confidence and accuracy.
The system leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth Issues Research Articles in July 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, a journal that says it features solid Earth geophysics, petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, tectonophysics, natural hazards and volcanology from the American Geophysical Union, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 129, Issue 7):
Research Article:
- Seismology
* Geostatistical Inversion for Subsurface Characterization Using Stein Variational Gradient Descent With Autoencoder N
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Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics Issues Research Articles in July 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, a journal that says it features space physics, aeronomy, magnetospheric physics, planetary atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres, solar and interplanetary physics, cosmic rays and heliospheric physics from the American Geophysical Union, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 129, Issue 7):
Research Article:
* Ionosphere and Upper Atmosphere
- Lower Thermospheric Tempera
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Limited Submission Opportunity: 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 2 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
Applications due July 25
These instructions are for VU investigators. VUMC investigators should contact LSO@vanderbilt.edu for more information.
Vanderbilt University may nominate up to three tenure-track faculty per department for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships.
In keeping with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's longstanding support of underrepresented scholars in the sciences, t
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Natasha Dacic Named 2024-2025 AGI Fisher Congressional Fellow
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 2 (TNSres) -- The American Geosciences Institute issued the following news release:
Natasha Dacic is the 2024-2025 William L. Fisher Congressional Geoscience Fellow, chosen by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI). The Fisher Fellowship is a unique opportunity for a geoscientist to work as staff in a congressional office or committee for a year in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Dacic expects to earn her Ph.D. in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering in August 2024 at t
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New Journal of Physics Issues Research Articles in June 2024 Edition
BRISTOL, England, July 3 -- The New Journal of Physics, a peer-reviewed journal at a forefront of physics from the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition.
Here are excerpts:
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* Papers:
- Anomalous diffusion, prethermalization, and particle binding in an interacting flat band system
- The average transmitted wave in random particulate materials
- Inferring to cooperate: Evolutionary games with Baye
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Newell Named Los Alamos' Battelle Inventor of the Year
WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news:
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Scientist Recognized for Quantum Research Applied to Cryptosystems
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Raymond Newell, a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was recently named Battelle's Inventor of the Year for Los Alamos. The annual award recognizes inventors from Battelle and from Battelle-managed laboratories, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, the N
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Nobel Prize Museum: Exhibition About Time Will Open in September
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 3 -- The Nobel Prize Museum, a part of the Nobel Foundation, issued the following news release on July 2, 2024:
This autumn, the Nobel Prize Museum will tackle a major topic in a small exhibition. NOW AND THEN will explore how some Nobel Prize laureates in physics and literature have dealt with the subject of time and have debated its nature. Visitors will also be able to experience a video work in which the artist Marcus Coates follows the movement of a clock, second by
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Announced
HANOVER, New Hampshire, July 3 (TNSres) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news:
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Thirteen Dartmouth students and alumni win the STEM fellowships.
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The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program has awarded 13 Dartmouth students and alumni with fellowships for 2024, and another 14 have received honorable mentions.
According to the NSF program, its mission is to "help ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforc
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Nuclear Spectroscopy Breakthrough Could Rewrite the Fundamental Constants of Nature
LOS ANGELES, California, July 3 (TNSres) -- The University of California issued the following news release:
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The findings could unlock the most accurate clock ever and allow advances like deep space navigation, communication
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Key takeaways
* Raising the energy state of an atom's nucleus using a laser, or exciting it, would enable development of the most accurate atomic clocks ever to exist. This has been hard to do because electrons, which surround the nucleus, react easily with l
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Physical Review Accelerators & Beams Issues Research Articles in June 2024 Edition
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, July 3 -- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, a journal from the American Physical Society that says it covers the full spectrum of accelerator science, technology and applications, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 27, Issue 6):
HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES:
- Acceleration of uranium beam to record power of 10.4 kW and observation of new isotopes at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
- Machine-learning-based pressure-anomaly
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Physical Review Applied Issues Research Articles in Vol. 21, Issue 6
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, July 3 -- Physical Review Applied, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Physical Society that says it publishes papers that bridge the gap between engineering and physics, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 21, Issue 6).
Here are excerpts:
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* HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES:
- Space-time metallic metasurfaces for frequency conversion and beamforming
- Excitonic Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in organic semiconductors
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Physiological Measurement Issues Research Articles in May 2024 Edition
BRISTOL, England, July 3 -- Physiological Measurement, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine that says it features applied physiology in illness and health, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 45, No. 5):
Topical Review:
* Application of portable sleep monitoring devices in pregnancy: a comprehensive review
Papers:
* Real-time regurgitation estimation in percutaneous left ventricular assist device fully
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Pincer Mount Cathode
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 2 -- KIMBALL PHYSICS, INC., Wilton, New Hampshire has been assigned a patent (No. US 12027340 B2, initially filed Nov. 15, 2023) developed by Andrea Michelle Calvey, Peterborough, New Hampshire, and George Douglas Calvey, Peterborough, New Hampshire, for "Pincer mount cathode."
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Progress of Theoretical & Experimental Physics Issues Research Articles in June 2024 Edition
TOKYO, Japan, July 3 -- Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, a peer-reviewed journal from the Physical Society of Japan that says it covers nuclear physics, astrophysics and cosmology, instrumentation and mathematical physics, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 2024, Issue 6):
Papers:
* General and Mathematical Physics
- Towards Verifications of Krylov Complexity
* Theoretical Particle Physics
- Gravitational Waves from First-Ord
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Recent 'Non-Traditional' Grads Define the Changing Face of the College Classroom
COLUMBUS, Georgia, July 3 -- Columbus State University issued the following news:
The face of college classrooms across the country is changing as more "non-traditional" students return to school to finish a degree--or start a new one. Their reasons range from pursuing personal interests to changing careers, advancing in their current ones, or increasing their earning potential.
A 2023 U.S. News & World Report article defines a "non-traditional college student" as someone 23 or older and perha
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Rep. Cuellar Announces $799,853 in Federal Grant Funding for TAMIU
LAREDO, Texas, July 3 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M International University, a member of the Texas A&M University System, issued the following news release on July 1, 2024:
In ceremonies Monday, Congressman Henry Cuellar, Ph.D. (TX-28) announced $799,853 in federal grant funding for Texas A&M International University (TAMIU).
The funding consists of three separate awards for the establishment of a center for physics-based A.I. application training, enhancement of statistics curricula for A.I. develop
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Semiconductor Doping Characterization Method Using Photoneutralization Time Constant of Corona Surface Charge
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 2 -- SEMILAB SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS LABORATORY CO., LTD., Budapest, Hungary has been assigned a patent (No. US 12027430 B1, initially filed March 17, 2023) developed by five inventors Marshall D. Wilson, Tampa, Florida; Jacek Lagowski, Tampa, Florida; Carlos Almeida, Tampa, Florida; Bret Schrayer, Tampa, Florida; and Alexandre Savtchouk, Tampa, Florida, for "Semiconductor doping characterization method using photoneutralization time constant of corona surface charge."
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Thirty-One UChicago Faculty Members Receive Named, Distinguished Service Professorships in 2024
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 2 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news:
Thirty-one members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.
Profs. Clifford Ando, Curtis A. Bradley, Cathy J. Cohen, Steven Durlauf, Christopher Faraone, Ayelet Fishbach, Anthony Kaldellis, Young-Kee Kim, Sanjog Misra, Mitchell C. Posner and Alexander Todorov have been named distinguished service professors. Profs. David Archer, Daniel Bartel
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UArizona's First Satellite Built by Students is Ready for Launch
TUCSON, Arizona, July 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:
The sun barely peeks over the horizon as a suitcase-like transport box exits Steward Observatory, home to the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy. Inside, held snugly in place by foam, is precious cargo: CatSat, the university's first satellite built entirely by students.
After loading it into the back of the car, Shae Henley and Walter Rahmer, both engineering students at UArizona, stre
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VCU Breakthroughs Fund Provides Grants to 10 More Faculty-Led Projects That Pursue Transformative Innovation
RICHMOND, Virginia, July 3 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news:
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Health, equity, sustainability and the human experience are the driving forces for transdisciplinary teams that target society's grand challenges.
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By Emily Komornik
Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Faculty-led research projects ranging from reducing chronic pain in sickle cell disease patients to optimizing Black maternal health and identifying gaps in Virginia seco
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VFS Announces Winner of 2024 Alfred Gessow Best Paper Award
FAIRFAX, Virginia, July 3 -- The Vertical Flight Society issued the following news release on July 2, 2024:
Fairfax, Virginia, USA -- The Vertical Flight Society (VFS) announces today the winner of the Society's prestigious Alfred Gessow Award for the best overall technical paper presented at the 80th Annual Forum and Technology Display. This year's winning paper is from the Safety Session entitled, Scenario-Based Helicopter Flight Simulation of Accident-Prone Vortex Ring State (VRS) Encounters
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