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Vise, a NYC-based AI-powered investment management platform built for advisors, raised $65m in Series C funding. The round, which brought total capital raised since founding to over $125m, was led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and rollout of new product features. Founded by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in 2016, Vise is an AI-powered investment management platform built for advisors. The platform gives financial advisors the tools and technology to create personal...

 E-Mail Shanjiang Zhu, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, received funding from Virginia Department of Transportation/Virginia Transportation Research Council for a project in which he is developing InfraHub, a smartphone app that helps bicycle and pedestrian facility users report facility issues using their smartphones. An iOS app has been developed in a previous project. This project will develop an Android version to extend its coverage. This project will also include additional outreach efforts through social media and the advocacy groups, at the co...

Australian-first research by Monash University discredits the theory that rivers and underground water supplies eventually replenish following droughts or floods. Following the Australian Millennium Drought, one-third of Victoria's water catchments still had not recovered from drought nearly eight years later. For those water catchments not recovered, roughly 80 per cent showed no evidence of recovering anytime soon.

Mohammed Soliman is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute’s Cyber Program and a Senior Associate at McLarty Associates’ Middle East and North Africa Practice. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and business in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Mohammed frequently appears on Arabic- and English-language television to provide commentary on unfolding events in the Middle East.

SIU student researchers experiment with solar power and nanoparticles to fight algae blooms Tactical Navigation Students and faculty work on finding solutions to the problem of toxic algae blooms in a laboratory at SIU. Pictured here, left to right, are Sushmita Regmi, graduate student in civil engineering; Jia Liu, assistant professor in the School of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering; Nafeesa Khan, graduate student in civil engineering; and Sudip Baral, graduate student in civil engineering.  (Photo by Russell Bailey) by Tim Crosby A team of students from Southern Illin...