3-Dec-2024 Marietta Radomska has a lively interest in death Linköping University Marietta Radomska researches death and grief but is lively and full of passion for what she does. Born in Poland, she is currently running a project on ecological grief at Linköping University, Sweden. Somewhere she nurtures a hope to change the world. “Investigating ecological grief can help us better understand how we relate to our environment and to other beings. It says something about us as humans in the world we live in,” she says.
3-Dec-2024 Cardio-oncology leader helps breast cancer patients, survivors with cardiovascular issues University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Lavanya Kondapalli, MD, leads the CU cardio-oncology program, serving as a cardiologist to patients and survivors of breast cancer and other cancer types who face cardiovascular issues like coronary artery disease, abnormal heart rhythms, and heart failure.
2-Dec-2024 ‘Pathways to citizenship’ should enable young Ukrainians to stay in UK University of Birmingham Most young Ukrainians living in the UK on temporary visas want to stay in the UK and contribute to its economy and culture, new research shows.
2-Dec-2024 Argonne contributes to next-generation electronics through new Energy Frontier Research Center DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne scientists will be part of the new APEX materials research center led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
2-Dec-2024 Risk and reward: Fuhr takes sensing technology to the next frontier… again DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL's Peter Fuhr continues pushes boundaries of optical and sensor technology in applications ranging from fighting wildfires to operating the immense floodgates protecting Venice, Italy. Fuhr’s path is marked by an oddball creativity that can’t confine itself to challenges in a single field. No idea is too far out to try out. His many inventions and start-ups before joining ORNL proved his ability to bring bold ideas to life. His influence is likely to be lasting, as his imagination and infectious zeal have driven him to mentor generations of new engineers.
2-Dec-2024 Pennington Biomedical’s Dr. Steven Heymsfield and Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk rank among the world’s most influential researchers Pennington Biomedical Research Center Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Dr. Steven Heymsfield and Dr. Peter Katzmarzyk are among the most influential researchers in the world who demonstrate significant and broad influence in their fields, according to Clarivate Analytics’ 2024 List of Highly Cited Researchers. This honor highlights researchers whose work has had significant global influence, as evidenced by their exceptional citation records in leading scientific publications. The 2024 Highly Cited Researchers hail from more than 1,200 institutions in 59 nations and regions.
2-Dec-2024 From liberal arts to leadership in nuclear physics DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Mark Kevin Jones is a true Renaissance man in nuclear physics. Throughout his career, he has garnered many accomplishments, and he’s even worn quite a few hats in his three decades at Jefferson Lab. Now, Jones has been recognized for his work by his peers by being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society “For scientific leadership in experimental studies of the fundamental nucleon electromagnetic form factors, including the surprising discovery of significant variation in the large momentum behavior of the proton electric form factor, and for developing new detection systems enabling the studies.” Funder DOE/US Department of Energy
2-Dec-2024 Rice Biotech Launch Pad hosts foundation representatives, Type 1 diabetes patients and advocates for campus tour Rice University Representatives from Breakthrough T1D, a leading global organization funding Type 1 diabetes research, visited Rice to learn about advances in diabetes treatment.
2-Dec-2024 Creating better at-home tests for viruses University of Cincinnati Chemistry researchers at the University of Cincinnati are developing better biosensors they hope will replace diagnostics such as the nearly 1 billion COVID tests distributed to homes in the United States during the pandemic. Funder NIH/National Institutes of Health
2-Dec-2024 Supercomputer “ATERUI III” opens new era of simulation astronomy National Institutes of Natural Sciences The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has introduced the HPE Cray XD2000 system as a new supercomputer to replace the current dedicated astronomy supercomputer “ATERUI II.” The operation of the new system began on December 2, 2024, at NAOJ Mizusawa Campus in Oshu City, Iwate Prefecture. The new system has been nicknamed NS-06 “ATERUI III,” inheriting the name from its predecessor.
