If it wasn’t for a typo, Dr. William Schpero, a health economist and an assistant professor in population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, may have taken a very different career path.

When University of Pittsburgh students Sebastian Shaffer and Jacob Wendt joined the Panther Amateur Radio Club, they were excited to fix ham radios, work on the antenna atop Benedum Hall, and connect with operators from as far away as Australia. This year, they had the unique opportunity to track the Orion space capsule during the Artemis II mission. 

After nearly 40 years of service and 4,726 firings, called “shots,” Sandia National Laboratories’ Saturn accelerator, one of the nation’s brightest X-ray generators, received redesigned switches, a new core section and a reengineered X-ray source.

University of Texas at Arlington President Jennifer Cowley highlighted workforce development, community collaboration and research excellence during the annual State of Higher Education luncheon last Thursday at College Park Center.

A husband and wife will walk across the graduation stage at Globe Life Field on Sunday, each receiving a doctoral degree from The University of Texas at Arlington. Their achievement caps a journey that included adapting to a new culture, navigating the COVID 19 pandemic, welcoming their first child and supporting each other every step of the way.

AI tools that recreate the voices and personalities of deceased loved ones are emerging as a new form of “grief technology.” Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Data Science say these systems may offer comfort for some users but also risk disrupting the grieving process by blurring the line between memory and simulation. The work highlights growing concerns around emotional well-being, posthumous consent, and the ownership of personal data in an era where digital identity can persist and interact, even after death.

While, historically, men in the United States have tended to drink more than women, that trend has reversed over the last decade, prompting a University of Rhode Island behavioral science psychology student to study the implications of the shift, and examine how emotion and craving are impacting alcohol use among women.

HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Siniša Hrvatin studies how animals hibernate — and what that state reveals about the biology of survival and aging.

Bernhard Palsson builds computer models that help scientists make biology easier to predict — and easier to engineer. His work has influenced everything from microbe-made chemicals to cells used to produce many therapeutic proteins and new “digital twin” efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance.

On a clear April day in 2006, a team of engineers and scientists erupted with excitement from the control room of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), a newly built user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A pulse of protons — racing at nearly the speed of light — shot from the accelerator and struck liquid mercury at the facility’s first target station, freeing tens of millions of neutrons. That moment launched a new era of discovery science that continues to shape technologies we use every day, from spacecraft to smartphones. As the challenges we currently face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project, ORNL once again stands at the ready to answer the nation’s need for AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery.