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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Nov-2025 04:11 ET (23-Nov-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)

Wijesekera receives funding for operational technology digital twin & scanning support

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Duminda Wijesekera, Professor, Cyber Security Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for: “Operational Technology Digital Twin and Scanning Support.”

Funder: Datalytica, LLC

Mohebbi & Hieb – Drone as a first responder (DFR) feasibility study for Northern Virginia

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Shima Mohebbi, Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), and Michael Hieb, Research Associate Professor, C5I Center, CEC, received funding for: “Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) Drone as a First Responder Feasibility Study project.”

Funder: Northern Virginia Emergency Response System (NVERS) as part of a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Grant Programs Directorate (FEMA/GPD) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

New single-dose, temperature-stable rabies vaccines could expand global access

University of Colorado at Boulder
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require refrigeration.

Journal: Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

UCLA to lead $16 million national study on artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Grant and Award Announcement

UCLA and UC Davis will co-lead a newly funded, multi-institutional clinical trial to evaluate whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help support radiologists in interpreting mammograms more accurately, with the goal of improving breast cancer screening and reducing unnecessary callbacks and anxiety for patients.

Boston College physicist Qiong Ma named a 2025 Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Boston College
Grant and Award Announcement

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation selected Boston College Assistant Professor of Physics Qiong Ma as one of five creative scientists in the tenth cohort of Moore Inventor Fellows. Professor Ma’s invention of “twistronic” artificial synapses is connecting discoveries in advanced materials directly with neuroscience-inspired computing. The fellowship was launched in 2016 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, the groundbreaking prediction by Gordon Moore of exponential growth in computing power. The 2025 awards mark the fulfillment of a ten-year $35 million commitment to support “50 inventors to shape the next 50 years.” In that time, the program has been supporting breakthrough tools and technologies that accelerate progress in scientific discovery, environmental conservation, and patient care.

Funder: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Running dry – a new study warns of extreme water scarcity in the coming decades

Institute for Basic Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea reveals that Global Warming is accelerating the risk of multi-year droughts that can lead to extreme water scarcity, threatening water demands in cities, agriculture, and livelihoods worldwide, already within the coming decades.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Institute for Basic Science

International team publishes framework for study of ‘Earth engineers’

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s S. Kathleen Lyons, is providing a new framework — Earth system engineering — for examining how organisms, especially humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale. The framework builds on ecosystem engineering, but Earth system engineering is a novel approach that distinguishes between engineering behaviors that have transformed the planet and those that have only local effects.

Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation