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Date Time Gift establishes Fujikawa ’77 Endowment for Astronautical Engineering Entrepreneur Steve Fujikawa ’77 has committed an eight-figure gift to aerospace engineering at Cornell, an investment that will strengthen the university’s status as a leader in space education and research. The Stephen J. Fujikawa ’77 Endowment for Astronautical Engineering will be used for future investments in graduate fellowships, professorships and laboratory enhancements, with the ultimate goal of creating an institute for space technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. The endowment will help gro...

The Air Force Academy is renaming a building after a graduate and distinguished Airman and NASA astronaut.

Image Credit: REC Stock Footage/Shutterstock.com State-of-the-art plasma technologies are being combined with printed electronics to enable the safe reuse of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) as researchers from the University of Southampton attempt to tackle shortages and the mountain of excess waste generated throughout the coronavirus pandemic. PPE Problem A 2020 survey suggested that 129 billion single-use face masks are being used worldwide per month, with more than 53 million sent to landfill every day in the UK. At a time when we are trying to reduce the amount of waste s...

Laura Jones-Wilson, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, has long had her sights set on outer space. “I learned about space at an Earth Day celebration when I was 5, and as soon as I found out that people had left the planet, I was like, ‘I’m in, let’s do this!’,” she remembers. “I got the word ‘aerospace engineer’ from watching ‘Star Trek’ episodes, and by early middle school, that’s what I was convinced I was going to be.” NASA/JPL/Provided Laura Jones-Wilson, Ph.D. ’12, and her colleagues conduct microgravity experiments aboard an aircraft that simulates weightlessn...

It is common knowledge that the University of Florida wants to break in to the U.S. News & World Report's top five public national universities rank, earning a prestigious title that would help attract students to its bachelor's degree, master's degree, doctoral degree and certificate award programs. UF was one spot short in November's rank, coming in sixth. But one higher education data company, Optimal, presents an alternative measure of quality for students to consider based on finances: how much will your degree cost, how likely are you to be employed one year after graduating, how much d...