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May 4, 2021 Students will learn more about the University of Wyoming, UW alumni will connect with their alma mater, and members of the public will find out more about UW’s presence in their community during a “The World Needs More Cowboys” celebration Tuesday, May 18, in Wheatland. The public is invited to the event from 5-7 p.m. at Vimbo’s Restaurant and Lounge. Free appetizers and beverages will be served. UW President Ed Seidel will be in attendance and speak during a brief program a...

Previously unrecognized tsunami hazard for cities like San Francisco A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip faults, especially for coastal cities adjacent to faults that traverse inland bays. Several areas around the world may fall into this category, including the San Francisco Bay area, Izmit Bay in Turkey and the Gulf of Al-Aqaba in Egypt. The study led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign civil and environmental engineering professor...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Illinois researchers Mohamed Abdelmeguid, left, and professor Ahmed Elbanna collaborated with colleagues to model and simulate previously unrecognized tsunami risks worldwide. view more  Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip faults, especially for coastal cities adjacent to faults that traverse inland bays. Several areas around the world may fall into this category, i...

Scientists propose improvements to precision irrigation Lauren Quinn University of Illinois April 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A new University of Illinois led study is identifying obstacles and solutions to improve performance and adoption of irrigation decision support tools at the field scale. URBANA — With threats of water scarcity complicating the need to feed a growing global population, it is more important than ever to get crop irrigation right. Overwatering can deplete local water s...

With threats of water scarcity complicating the need to feed a growing global population, it is more important than ever to get crop irrigation right. Overwatering can deplete local water supplies and lead to polluted runoff, while underwatering can lead to sub-optimal crop performance. Yet few farmers use science-based tools to help them decide when and how much to water their crops.

Michigan Radio offers internships in its newsroom and production departments. Check our employment page for current openings. Newsroom Julia Field Julia recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Urban Studies. Having spent the last two summers interning for a Detroit nonprofit and a NGO in India, she decided to dabble in online news journalism. As a university student, she was involved in the student organization, Human Rights Through Educati...

April 20, 2021 Students will learn more about the University of Wyoming, UW alumni will connect with their alma mater, and members of the public will find out more about UW’s presence in their community during a “The World Needs More Cowboys” celebration Wednesday, May 5, in Uinta County. The public is invited to the event from 5-7 p.m. at the Historic Roundhouse in Evanston. Free appetizers and beverages will be served. UW President Ed Seidel will be in attendance and speak during a brie...

Share Scientists developed a model showing that a fragile, temporary state of immunity emerged during the early epidemic but got destroyed as people changed their social behaviors over time, leading to future waves of infection Scientists modeling the spread of COVID-19 showed that a temporary state of immunity arises due to individual differences in social behaviors. This ‘transient collective immunity’—referring to when the susceptible or more social groups collectively have been infec...

Have you heard of Charles Kindleberger? He’s the famous economist and MIT professor who literally wrote the book on stock market booms and busts.  The Economist magazine calls him, “ The master of the genre.” Sadly, Kindleberger passed away in 2003. But he’d be happy to know his groundbreaking framework for why markets boom is playing out exactly as he anticipated... You see, over 50 years ago, Kindleberger made a truly brilliant discovery. His discovery explains what’s going on in...

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Daffodil™ as a Top-Level Project Open Source universal data interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL) standard in use at DARPA, GE Research, Naval Postgraduate School, Owl Cyber Defense, Perspecta Labs, and Raytheon BBN Technologies, among others. The Apache Software Foundation Wilmington, Delaware, UNITED STATES Wilmington, DE, March 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache S...