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Three professors at the University of California, Santa Cruz elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year. Lise Getoor, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Patricia Zavella are three of 250 new members elected this year and join 36 other members from UC Santa Cruz. Getoo was an early leader in the study of intersectionality for working Chicanas.
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1 year ago Read more at UC Santa Cruz

HB24-1446, sponsored by Rep. Barbara McLachlan, would make no-cost professional development programs available to science educators. The bill aims to improve K-12 science performance for Colorado students by giving teachers the tools and resources they need to foster success among the students who need the most support.
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1 year ago Read more at Colorado House Democrats

In software, frequent branching occurs as programs navigate different paths based on varying data values. This predictor anticipates future branch outcomes by referencing past histories stored within prediction tables. Previous attacks have exploited this mechanism by analyzing entries in these tables to discern recent branch tendencies at specific addresses.
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1 year ago Read more at University of California San Diego

Bonnie Fleming was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Mathematical and Physical Sciences. She pioneered a class of detectors called Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers. This technology provided a giant leap forward in how scientists may study the varying states of neutrinos and how the subatomic particles might interact with matter.
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Researchers from Virginia Tech’s Embodied Brain Lab are examining what happens inside our brains when we’re in flow. The project culminates in “Finding Flow on SURF Day: The Neurophysiology of Dancing Flow States” at 6 p.m. April 30 in Roberts Studio Theatre.
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1 year ago Read more at Today at Elon

NASA/JPL-Caltech interns from California State University, Los Angeles are interning at JPL’s Origins and Habitability Lab. Cathy Trejo shows off a tube filled with pebbles designed to mimic Martian regolith. During experiments, fluid is flushed through the tube many times, giving JPL astrobiology interns the chance to study how chemicals may have interacted with water on Mars billions of years ago.
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As of April 26, you've completed 1,024,319 acts of science, with four days to go! We’re focusing on medicine and public health, along with a big One Million Acts of Science Celebration. For the month of April, Girl Scouts Overseas is playing Stall Catchers to fight Alzheimer’s Disease.
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1 year ago Read more at DISCOVER Magazine

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s fourth-annual Giving Day April 23 was a success, raising more than $660,000 and exceeding the goal of 1,000 donors in 24 hours with more than 1,100 donors from across the country. Giving Day, which is led by the Office of Advancement, was held on the same day as Student Appreciation Day this year. To thank donors for their support, the university will hold its first-ever Day of Gratitude Wednesday, May 1.
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1 year ago Read more at UTHSC News

Professor Marina Artuso has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) She was elected by the AAAS Council for extraordinary achievements in her field and her efforts on behalf of the advancement of science. The Fellows will be honored at a ceremony later this year in Washington, D.C.
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1 year ago Read more at Syracuse University News

The Beck College of Sciences and Mathematics at Arkansas State University recognized its most outstanding graduating students in 2023-24. The Chancellor’s Scholar award is the graduating student with the highest overall grade point average in the respective academic college.
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1 year ago Read more at A-State