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9-Apr-2025

Computing Breakthrough Award goes to key figure in microchip revolution

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Jingsheng Jason Cong, the holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2024 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Cong is recognized for fundamental contributions to the design and automation of field-programmable systems and customizable computing.

9-Apr-2025

Building better bioadhesives for long-term medical implants

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher is developing a new class of medical adhesives by bringing together hydrogels and glue-like polymers to safely and reliably connect human tissues to therapeutic devices implanted in the body, such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, and artificial joints.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

9-Apr-2025

The Women’s National Football Conference supports women’s health

American Heart Association
Business Announcement

The American Heart Association and the Women’s National Football Conference celebrate season opening with player ambassador unveil

9-Apr-2025

Tree rings track atmospheric mercury cheaply

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ITHACA, N.Y. – Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new Cornell University study.

Journal: Frontiers in Environmental Science

9-Apr-2025

Potable water happy byproduct of low-cost green hydrogen technology

Cornell University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University-led collaboration has hit the trifecta of sustainability technology: The group has developed a low-cost method to produce carbon-free “green” hydrogen via solar-powered electrolysis of seawater. A happy byproduct of the process? Potable water.

Journal: Energy & Environmental Science

9-Apr-2025

AI-powered smart clothing logs posture, exercises

Cornell University
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new type of smart clothing that can track a person’s posture and exercise routine but looks, wears – and washes – just like a regular shirt.

9-Apr-2025

Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A new multimodal tool combines a large language model with powerful graph-based AI models to efficiently find new, synthesizable molecules with desired properties, based on a user’s queries in plain language.

Funder: MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research