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19-May-2025

Rice’s Mikos elected to the European Academy of Sciences

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice bioengineer Antonios Mikos has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences, an international body that recognizes excellence in scientific research and technological innovation.

19-May-2025

Novel data streaming software chases light speed from accelerator to supercomputer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Analyzing massive datasets from nuclear physics experiments can take hours or days to process, but researchers are working to radically reduce that time to mere seconds using special software being developed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories.

19-May-2025

Hari Kalva, Ph.D., inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame

Florida Atlantic University
Business Announcement

With 73 U.S. patents and 70 international patents to his name, FAU engineering’s Hari Kalva, Ph.D., a pioneering innovator in video technology, is one of 10 inventors selected for the 2025 class of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.

19-May-2025

Researchers identify key social vulnerability factors relating flood risks to buildings and crops

Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards, causing billions of dollars in economic loss each year. By 2050, flood-related losses in the United States are expected to increase by 26%, with the share of properties facing at least a 1% annual chance of moderate to major flooding rising from 9% to 10%.

Though flooding is a widespread and relatively common hazard in the U.S., not all communities experience flood risks in the same way. In a study published in Natural Hazards, a Princeton-led research team examined the relationship between social vulnerability and flood risk, providing valuable insights into how flood impacts vary across different social and economic contexts.

Journal: Natural Hazards

19-May-2025

Empowering robots with human-like perception to navigate unwieldy terrain

Duke University
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers from Duke University have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to “sense” and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans do.

Funder: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Army Research Laboratory
Meeting: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

19-May-2025

R. Rex and Carrol Parris make $10 million gift to launch USC Longevity Research Accelerator at Keck School of Medicine

Keck School of Medicine of USC
Grant and Award Announcement

Keck School of Medicine of USC will launch a new research initiative focused on extending the human health span with a $10 million transformative gift from R. Rex Parris and his wife Carrol Parris. The USC Parris Longevity Accelerator, to be led by Denis Evseenko, MD, PhD, professor of orthopedic surgery and regenerative medicine, will bring together experts from engineering, stem cell research and gerontology to uncover predictive biomarkers of aging and develop early interventions for age-related diseases. The USC Parris Longevity Accelerator aims to create treatments for major age-associated conditions like osteoarthritis, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders, with the goal of bringing them to clinical trials within a few years.

Funder: R. Rex and Carrol Parris

19-May-2025

Team creates light-activated therapy to target hard-to-treat cancer

University of Texas at Dallas
Grant and Award Announcement

University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers, in collaboration with UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, are developing an enhanced light-activated immunotherapy approach that could one day treat patients with stomach cancer that has spread throughout the abdomen.

The approach uses lab-designed molecules and far-red or near-infrared light to “prime” the immune system to help it attack stubborn cancer cells, said Dr. Girgis Obaid, assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science.