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Penn State Brandywine students who have impacted the campus through their leadership and service were honored at a ceremony on April 29. The annual leadership awards program highlights the achievements of students involved with clubs, student government and campus programs.

SALEM — An area student is on a search for outdoor sculptures and hopes residents of Jefferson and Harrison counties might be interested to help with that pur

Dr. Junaid Zubairi Efforts to modernize flight data tracking have taken a big step forward, thanks to ZubAir Data LLC, a start-up and client of the Fredonia Technology Incubator, and its industry affiliate Real-Time Innovations (RTI), a software framework company for autonomous systems. ZubAir, founded by Junaid Zubairi, State University at Fredonia Department of Computer and Information Sciences professor and chair, teamed up with RTI Connext DDS, of Sunnyvale, Calif., to provide the real time...

Hundreds Reported Abnormal Menstruation After Exposure to Tear Gas, Study Finds A scientific paper expands on social media reports of sudden onset of periods, spotting and other menstrual peculiarities during last summer’s protests in Portland, Ore. Protesters facing tear gas outside the U.S. District Court building in Portland, Ore., in July. A scientist asked if their menstrual cycles had changed after they were exposed to tear gas. Nearly 50 percent said yes.Credit...Mason Trinca for The ...

2,200 adults who had been exposed to tear gas last summer were surveyed. Britta Torgrimson-Ojerio, a nurse researcher at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, noticed there were several reports of protestors who’d experienced abnormal menstrual cycles following being exposed to tear gas. So much, in fact, that she couldn’t dismiss them as a coincidence. Per The New York Times, she set out to find some correlations. So 2,200 adults who reported being exposed to tear...

IMAGE: Penn State At a formal naming ceremony held May 12, 1990, in conjunction with spring commencement exercises that year, the college was formally renamed as the Eberly College of Science. It distinguished Penn State as the first public research university in the United States to name its basic science college after a benefactor or philanthropist, according to a survey of institutions belonging to the Association of American Universities. The generosity of the Eberly family has enabled the ...

The tablet-based Alexa skill will provide cancer patients with personalized and supportive care to relieve symptoms. Author: Jermaine Rowley (FOX43) Updated: 11:03 PM EDT April 29, 2021 HERSHEY, Pa. — Nurse AMIE will soon be assisting patients with metastatic breast cancer. AMIE isnt your traditional nurse though. She can be accessed via an Amazon Alexa skill.  Experts from the Penn State University’s College of Medicine and the College of Information Scienc...

Staff report The University of Alabamas 2021 spring graduating class includes 636 first-generation college students, as well as notable athletes such as Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and former NBA star Robert Horry. UA held 10 commencement ceremonies spread over Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Coleman Coliseum. The staggered ceremonies were part of an effort to ensure social distancing, along with other COVID-19 precautions like mandatory mask-wearing. A total of 6,158 degrees wer...

Scientists develop new type of artificial muscle for use in miniature robots University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have mimicked the supercoiling properties of DNA to develop a new type of artificial muscles for use in miniature robot applications. Their research is published today (Thursday 29 April AEST) in Science Robotics. One of the challenges to the miniaturisation of robotics technology – such as developing micro-tools for remote robotic surgery – is that conventional mechanical...

Summary Khursheed Aurangzeb is Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering at College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics Design from Mid Sweden University Sweden in June 2013, MS degree in Electrical Engineering (System on Chip Design) from Linkoping University, Sweden in 2009. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbott...