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Service at every milestone: UTC to celebrate staff and faculty achievements
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (123+ words) The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga annually celebrates staff and faculty who have reached notable career milestones. This year, 183 employees will be honored during the UTC Service Awards Annual Luncheon on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The luncheon, a signature event of Founder’s…...
Honoring the Best and Brightest
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (151+ words) Timothy White, Director, Army Manufacturing Technology, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, speaks at Department of War Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Program's Personnel Honor Awards at the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes, August 10, 2026. The ceremony…...
Founders & Guardians: Katherine Johnson — Johnson’s American dream was to work as a research mathematician
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (154+ words) Meadville Tribune Katherine Johnsonâs 2019 autobiography is titled âReaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson.â Editorâs note: Founders & Guardians is a series The Meadville Tribune is publishing as America celebrates the 250th anniversary of…...
Werner Heisenberg nearly failed his 1923 PhD oral because he could not explain the resolving power of a microscope—or even how a storage battery worked. Experimental physicist Wilhelm Wien wanted to fail him, but his mentor Arnold Sommerfeld defended his brilliance as a theorist, securing a mediocre cum laude—four years before Heisenberg used a microscope thought experiment to explain the uncertainty principle.
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (921+ words) Heisenberg's near-failed 1923 doctorate exposed his weakness in experimental physics, then the microscope returned in his 1927 explanation of quantum uncertainty....
Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (107+ words) The Washington Post Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due. When she became a programmer at the birthplace of the atomic bomb…...
URI-led consortium awarded $4.6 million NSF grant to expand STEM education and workforce opportunities
1+ week, 5+ day ago (213+ words) The grant, titled Collaborative Research: Advancing Pathways through a Multi-Institutional Consortium for Engineering Education and Workforce Development, will support efforts to recruit and retain talented students with financial need to pursue degrees in engineering and related fields. Through the initiative,…...
FAU receives $400,000 NSF grant to advance STEM workforce readiness
1+ week, 5+ day ago (676+ words) The three-year project will explore how industry-informed research, entrepreneurship training and early engagement can better prepare undergraduates for careers in biotechnology and the life sciences. Students will gain access to research, internships, industry experiences and AI-enabled learning while expanding workforce…...
Binghamton University welcomes Simons Empire Faculty Fellows in mathematics and physics
2+ week, 3+ day ago (150+ words) Left to right: Simons Empire Faculty Fellows Lebing Chen, Sammy Luo, Yahong Yang, and Kunyan Zhang. This semester, Binghamton University, State University of New York welcomes a quartet of mathematicians and physicists who will help establish it as a major…...
The Further Ig Nobel Adventures of The Harts
3+ week, 2+ day ago (99+ words) Improbable Research The Harts come to the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony every year, journeying from their home in Florida to be very much a part of things. This year they will make the journey from Florida to Zurich, Switzerland for…...
Who is Seth Jacob Nabat? 18-year-old from California built an AI system to???see??? particle collisions??? and won $40,000
3+ week, 3+ day ago (405+ words) An 18-year-old California student has turned a complex physics problem into an AI experiment. Seth Jacob Nabat built a machine-learning system to help analyse high-energy particle collisions. His work earned him 10th place and a $40,000 prize in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent…...