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The University of Houston is pleased to welcome seven new members to its Board of Visitors for the 2024-25 academic year. These new additions, appointed by UH President Renu Khator to terms that began on Sept. 1, join an established…

A team of engineers at the University of Houston has published a study in the journal Nature on how international air travel has influenced the spread of COVID-19 around the world.By using a newly developed AI tool, the team identified…

As the clock winds down on a deadly and destructive 2024 hurricane season, a new study from geologists at the University of Houston reveals extensive erosion and shoreline retreat caused by Hurricane Beryl, a category one hurricane that…

Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity and the Department of Physics at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from Intellectual Ventures, a global leader in the business of invention, to continue their…

New giving by Dave Meehl, a retired financial officer who worked at accounting firms, food companies and at Lakeshore Community Services, will provide $5 million to Penn State Behrend’s schools of engineering and science. A $3 million…

Medical imaging is no longer in Kansas, Toto, as a team led by Penn State researchers brings traditional black and white diagnostic images of X-rays and traditional CT scans into technicolor. The researchers developed novel contrast agents…

Immunotherapies that mobilize a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer have become a treatment pillar. These therapies, including CAR T-cell therapy, have performed well in cancers like leukemias and lymphomas, but the…

A $6.5 million state grant has positioned Penn State Behrend to begin construction of the Center for Manufacturing Competitiveness, an industry-facing research facility and the centerpiece of the college’s Project RESOLVE. The grant was…

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other international institutions have for the first time achieved atomic-scale observations of grain rotation in polycrystalline materials. Widely used in electronic devices, aerospace…

In the chaos of a wildfire, heat, wind, flames and fuel interact to produce embers that are lofted into surrounding areas, starting new spot fires and spreading destruction and property loss in California’s wildland-urban interface.…