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ANGOLA — Following in the footsteps of Nobel Prize winners and other prominent scientists, a Trine University senior has been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Arcadia, Ohio, native Alexander Pessell will graduate in May with a degree in biomedical engineering and has been accepted into the biomedical engineering Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University. “The fellowship assists me and Johns Hopkins in funding my graduate school education,” Pessell said. “It also gives me the ability to round out my professional development ...

Nashville Tennessean Down a road that juts off a major thoroughfare filled with modern restaurants and shopping centers is the forgotten and neglected Owen-Primm House, a historic residence from the 1800s abandoned in recent years. The deserted antebellum house on Moores Lane, now sagging with storm damage and disrepair, was recently purchased by Bobbi Clemens and Mark Tacchi, a couple who moved their family to Brentwood in 2019 from San Francisco.  After learning from Tennessean reporting that the home was days away from being demolished, Clemens and Tacchi stepped in to save it. While in S...

Date Time Could rotavirus genome be key to COVID-19 vaccine for kids? IU researchers say yes Since the pandemic struck the United States more than a year ago, Indiana University Bloomington virologist John Patton, graduate student Asha Philip and others have been working on a COVID-19 vaccine for young children, based on a well-established childhood vaccine for the common illness rotavirus. Currently, no available COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized for use in children younger than 16. John Patton. Photo by Eric Rudd, Indiana University By reverse-engineering the rotavirus genome to serve ...

The Daily Universe Alpine school board meeting on Feb. 23. Members of the school board discussed the school boundaries for two new elementary schools in the district. Alpine School Board members unanimously approved new elementary school boundaries in Vineyard and fast-growing Saratoga Springs during a meeting Feb. 23.    The new boundaries take effect once the new schools open next fall. The proposed and approved boundary for the new Saratoga Springs Elementary School. The goals of assigning these new school boundaries were “keeping students in a reasonable proximity of their school,...

/ Dr. Samuel Urrutia and his wife moved to the US in 2018 from Honduras to pursue his medical residency in internal medicine at IU. As healthcare workers in the U.S. received COVID-19 vaccines, many were relieved and hopeful. But doctors who are foreign-born also describe a bittersweet feeling. Dr. Samuel Urrutia is walking to a coffee shop near University Hospital in Indianapolis. It's freezing but he sees it as a good chance to capture videos to share with his parents back in Honduras over the family WhatsApp group. “My family likes seeing videos of the snow. They've never have actually...