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Penn State University Launches Free Self-Guided Digital Entrepreneurship Education Program
Invent Penn State’s LaunchBox & Innovation Network has launched a free, online, self-guided entrepreneurship education resource available to all.
This digital curriculum, titled Customer Discovery 101, is for people with business…
Tracy Langkilde Named Interim Executive Vice President and Provost at Penn State University
Tracy Langkilde, the Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science, has been named interim executive vice president and provost of Penn State, effective April 15.
Langkilde succeeds Executive Vice President and Provost Justin…
UC Irvine Researchers Uncover New Origin of Deep Brain Waves
University of California, Irvine biomedical engineering researchers have uncovered a previously unknown source of two key brain waves crucial for deep sleep: slow waves and sleep spindles. Traditionally believed to originate from one brain…
New Discoveries Offer Enhanced Understanding of Expanding Universe
An astrophysicist from The University of Texas at Dallas and his colleagues from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration are at the forefront of an ambitious experiment to study the expansion of the universe and its…
UMD Geologist Contributes to Development of Moonquake Detector for Astronauts’ Surface Mission
An instrument to detect “moonquakes” developed in part by a University of Maryland geologist is among the scientific equipment recently selected by NASA for its planned return of astronauts to the moon.
Once installed near the lunar…
Changing Rainfall Patterns Due to Climate Change Impact Plants Globally, Study Finds
April showers are increasingly becoming deluges due to climate change, and May flowers will never be the same.
And it’s not just April; the warming of the planet is causing a year-round, worldwide trend toward more intense but less…
Research Shows Grieving Pet Owners Find Comfort in ‘Supernatural’ Interactions
Less than a week after her golden retriever Riley died, information studies Professor Jen Golbeck found him napping in her living room, “curled up like a croissant like he always was,” on his red and gray-fleece dog bed.
“It took me…
Local Teens Reach New Musical Heights with Affordable Lessons
The steady, percussive clacking reverberating from a classroom in The Clarice has the drive and precision of a full drumline, with just a tiny fraction of the volume. “Give me one!” a voice calls out. “Give me two! Give me three! Break…
University of Maryland Program Aids Rural Counties in Maryland to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Federal grant money available for emissions-cutting projects could be a windfall for local governments looking to go green—if the applications didn’t look so much to municipal staffers like billows of red tape.
“Federal grants are no fun…
William & Mary Lab Partners Awarded Highly Competitive Goldwater Scholarships
With the addition of Jeffrey Gu ’25 and Marco Stettler ’25 to its list of students who have won Goldwater Scholarships, William & Mary confirms the strength of its STEM programs and the importance of its emphasis on undergraduate…