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Eight Lobo researchers from disciplines spanning across The University of New Mexico have been selected as recipients of the inaugural OVPR Ovation Award for Research and Scholarship.

The new Ovation awards recognize full-time faculty for recent cutting-edge research accomplishments that address local or global challenges, while elevating the Universitys reputation on a national and international stage.

Our faculty are continuously working to find solutions to some of the greatest challenges we face as New Mexicans, often without much fanfare, said Ellen Fisher, UNM vice president for research. The Ovation Awards really highlight the diversity of the Universitys research, scholarship, and creativity that strengthens our commitment to improving the lives of New Mexicans and others who live beyond our state.

2022 Ovation Award for Research and Scholarship recipients:

Professor Subhankar Banerjee | ArtAssistant Professor Diana Dragomir | Physics & AstronomyProfessor Heather Edgar | AnthropologyAssociate Professor Tiffany Florvil | HistoryProfessor Marjori Krebs | Elementary EducationAssociate Professor Christina Salas | Chemical and Biological EngineeringProfessor Irene Salinas | BiologyProfessor Richard White | Music

Each researcher will receive $1,000 distributed into their research account. Recipients will also be honored during Research & Discovery Week, Nov.5-11.

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To better understand the inner workings of glacier which are often many kilometers in depth researchers are using ice-penetrating radar, which sends radio waves through the ice, to create maps of what it looks like inside.

In this episode of Stanford Engineerings The Future of Everything, Stanford radio glaciologist Dustin (Dusty) Schroeder explains how this technique works and how the data it generates can help us understand the implications of climate change here on Earth. Together with host, bioengineer Russ Altman, Schroeder also discusses how he and his team are using this technology to investigate the habitability of moons and planets in our solar system and whether there might be life already there.

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Related:Dustin Schroeder, associate professor of electrical engineering and of geophysics.

Related:Russ Altman, the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, of genetics, of medicine (general medical discipline), of biomedical data science and, by courtesy, of computer science.

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Srinagar, Apr 26: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir in association with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the University of Kashmir is organising a two-day international conference on Recent Advances in Biomedical Sciences and Regenerative Medicine (RABSRM 2022) on May 6&7.

The conference is being organised as part of the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) programme, Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India, that aims at improving the research ecosystem of Indias higher educational institutions. Department of Science and Technology, GoI& World Bank-ICAR funded National Agricultural Higher Education Project for the institutional development of SKUAST-K are also supporting the event.

Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur; Division of Animal Biotechnology, SKUAST-K; and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations, KU are jointly organising the event to be held at SKUAST-K, Shalimar campus and KU campus, Hazratbal on May 6&7 respectively.

To review the preparations for the international conference, a meeting was held at SKUAST-K under the chairmanship of Director Research, Sarfaraz Ahmad Wani and Dean Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, MT Banday in which scientists, faculty members and organisers of the conference participated.

The mega-conference is being held under the patronage of VC KU Prof Talat Ahmad and VC SKUAST-K Prof Nazir AhamdGanai. Prof Ganai, in his message, highlighted the importance of the conference in the present scientific era and hoped that it will provide an opportunity to discuss and deliberate on the issues shared across related fields concerning the improvement in life and working of mankind.

The RABSRM 2022 conference aims to bring together experts, researchers, young scientists and academicians from around the world to disseminate knowledge from interdisciplinary backgrounds. The knowledge provided by the eminent speakers and researchers will help to foster the research culture in the area of biomedical sciences and regenerative medicine at the universities of Jammu and Kashmir and around the country. The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss recent developments in biomedical research in health and diseases and foster future directions in drug discovery and therapeutic interventions. The themes of the conference include Bioengineering, Regenerative Medicine, Cancer Biology, Drug Design and Delivery, Vaccine Biology, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Molecular Therapeutics, Animal Biotechnology, Stem Cell Gene Therapy & Biomarkers.

The conference solicits contributions of abstracts for oral/poster presentations that address themes and topics of the conference. Participants are required to submit their research abstracts online. Students/Postdocs/Faculties can submit abstracts describing original and unpublished results in all the areas of Biomedical Science and Medicine and are invited for the presentation at the conference after the acceptance. The template of the abstract can be found on the website: http://www.rabsrm.org. Among the leading National and International scientists participating in the two days event include the names of Jukka Seppl from Aalto University, Finland, Andreas Nssler from Univesity of Tuebingen, Germany, JouniPartenan Aalto University, Finland and Hanna Isaksson from Lund University, Sweden as Key International Invited Speakers for the event.

The event will be one of its rear kind in this part of the world where the professionals across diverse disciplines will be deliberating on the theme interrelated across all the steams of concern. The event is expected to host renowned professionals from various national and international organisations for the two days here at Srinagar.

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Class of 2022 Presidents Engagement, Innovation, and Sustainability Prize Winners

On April 20, University of Pennsylvania Interim President Wendell Pritchett announced the recipients of the 2022 Presidents Engagement, Innovation, and Sustainability Prizes. Awarded annually, the prizes empower Penn students to design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in the world. Each Prize-winning project will receive $100,000, as well as a $50,000 living stipend per team member.

Five seniors were named recipients of the 2022 Presidents Engagement prize. They are Rowana Miller and Manoj Simha for Cosmic Writers and Seungkwon Son, Max Strickberger, and Sam Strickberger for College Green Ventures. Two seniors have received the Presidents Innovation Prize: William Kohler Danon and Lukas Achilles Yancopoulos for Grapevine. Three seniors and two December 2021 graduates received the inaugural Presidents Sustainability Prize. They are Saif Khawaja for Shinkei Systems; Sarah Beth Gleeson, Shoshana Weintraub, and Julia Yan for EcoSPIN; and Eli Moraru for The Community Grocer.

This years prize recipients have selflessly dedicated themselves to improving environmental, health, and educational outcomes for others, said Provost Pritchett. From empowering young people through free creative writing education to building robotics that minimize fish waste to reducing microfiber pollution in the ocean, these outstanding and inspiring projects exemplify the vision and passion of our Penn students, who are deeply committed to making a positive difference in the world.

The 2022 prize recipientsselected from an applicant pool of 71 peoplewill spend the next year implementing the following projects:

Rowana Miller and Manoj Simha for Cosmic Writers: Ms. Miller, a sociology major in the College of Arts and Sciences from New York City, and Mr. Simha, an economics major in the Wharton School from Seattle, will provide equitable opportunities for free creative writing education to K-12 students across the United States, available regardless of socioeconomic background. Their nonprofit, Cosmic Writers, is a transformative tool for developing literacy, communication skills, and a passion for words. They are mentored by Al Filreis, the Kelly Family Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Seungkwon Son, Max Strickberger, and Sam Strickberger for College Green Ventures: Mr. Son, a double major in business analytics in the Wharton School and psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences from Allentown, Pennsylvania, along with Max Strickberger, an English major in the College, and Sam Strickberger, an intellectual history major in the College, both from Chevy Chase, Maryland, will build out College Green Ventures, an organization that aims to be a centralized hub for supporting student social entrepreneurs and creating more of them. They are mentored by Tyler Wry, an associate professor of management in the Wharton School.

William Kohler Danon and Lukas Achilles Yancopoulos for Grapevine: Mr. Danon, a history major in the College from Miami, and Mr. Yancopoulos, an environmental studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a bioengineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from Yorktown Heights, New York, will work to increase resilience across the healthcare supply chain, with a particular focus on small-to-medium businesses. Grapevine builds upon Mr. Danon and Mr. Yancopouloss inspiring work with Pandemic Relief Supply, a venture that delivered $20 million worth of healthcare supplies to frontline workers at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are mentored by David F. Meaney, the Solomon R. Pollack Professor of Bioengineering and senior associate dean of Penn Engineering.

Saif Khawaja for Shinkei Systems: Mr. Khawaja, a December 2021 graduate of the Wharton School from Dubai, will continue to grow his startup, Shinkei Systems, which builds robotics that minimize fish waste and multiply shelf-life. Shinkeis robotics automate humane Japanese slaughter techniquessimilar to kosher or halal practices for cattleto ensure that every fish makes it to a plate at top quality. Mr. Khawaja is mentored by Jacqueline Kirtley, an assistant professor of management in the Wharton School.

Sarah Beth Gleeson, Shoshana Weintraub, and Julia Yan for EcoSPIN: Ms. Gleeson, from Lexington, Kentucky; Ms Weintraub, from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; and Ms. Yan, from Cary, North Carolina; are materials science and engineering majors in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. They are pioneering EcoSPIN, an innovative device that captures microfibers at their laundry point source, protecting oceans and waterways. They are mentored by Karen I. Winey, the Harold Pender Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering in Penn Engineering.

Eli Moraru for The Community Grocer: Mr. Moraru, a December 2021 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences from Washington, D.C., will continue to work on The Community Grocer, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization reimagining nutritional assistance to promote health equity and fight food insecurity. He is mentored by Akira Drake Rodriguez, an assistant professor in the Stuart Weitzman School of Designs department of city and regional planning.

This years finalists also included the following seniors: Bema Boateng for Project Reignite the Light, a program designed to improve mental health literacy in Ghana; Hector Cure and Saskia Wright for Accin para la Reincorporacin Profesional, a program to help demobilized women in Colombia; and Joshua Kim, John Ta, and Myahn Walker for CommuniHealth, a community health care partnership in Philadelphia.

These inspiring projects exemplify the wide range of interests that energize our great Penn students and faculty, said Interim Provost Beth A. Winkelstein. They aim to make a tangible difference in peoples lives, bringing our shared commitments to social justice, intellectual creativity, and entrepreneurial drive to some of the worlds most urgent challenges. We are indebted to the faculty advisors and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, who worked closely with our students to develop their exciting and innovative initiatives.

The prizes are generously supported by Emerita Trustee Judith Bollinger and William G. Bollinger, in honor of Ed Resovsky; Emerita Trustee Lee Spelman Doty and George E. Doty, Jr.; Emeritus Trustee James S. Riepe and Gail Petty Riepe; Trustee David Ertel and Beth Seidenberg Ertel; Trustee Ramanan Raghavendran; Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation; and an anonymous donor.

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The University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT Prague) was founded in 1952 as far more than just an institute of higher education, but as a solution to our worlds most pressing challenges as well. Its students and graduates are proof.

Doors didnt just magically open for Thea Baum when she graduated from the university in 2015. It was her qualifications prestige that made the process ever-so-seamless. Recruiters and decision-makers were immediately impressed.

It was relatively easy to find a job after my graduation, she attests. I found a number of job opportunities and I went to a couple of interviews enabling me to make a decision based on the best fitting employment opportunity.

She chose PharmInvent, where she would be able to serve as a Scientific and Regulatory Specialist in the Pharmaceuticals Regulatory Affairs sector and apply all the knowledge and skills she gained as a Masters in Biotechnology student at UCT Prague.

My current position in PharmInvent is strongly related to my field of study at UCT Prague, she explains. The education acquired at the university enabled me to have a good grasp of the technologies currently in use in the biotechnology industry. I am able to understand current EU legislation related to the food, chemical or microbiological industries which helps me consider the regulatory requirements that need to be addressed in pharmaceuticals.

UCT Prague is one of the countrys largest educational and research institutions. Source: University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

Such confidence is typical of budding changemakers who choose UCT Prague. The theme of sustainability persists across its Faculty of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Environmental Technology, Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, the Department of Physical Education and Sport, Department of Education and Human Sciences, Department of Languages, and the Department of Economics and Management (also known as the UCT School of Business).

Within them, students can choose from a wide array of bachelors, masters and PhD programmes taught in English. With a student to faculty ratio of 20:1, classes are productively intimate. Hence, curricula are hands-on and ample guidance awaits in state-of-the-art, facility-filled spaces. Essentially, everything one could need to gear up for a future of change-making is ready and waiting. Pathways abound for such outcomes.

Take the MSc in Sustainability and Environmental Engineering, for instance. This programme provides learners with expert knowledge of environmental chemistry, microbiology, hydrobiology, water and atmosphere technologies, decontamination technologies, and waste handling technologies all of which are crucial for tomorrows green heroes.

Its interdisciplinary nature ensures students are comprehensively trained to leverage water technologies and air protection technologies. Additional lessons shed light on industrial toxicology, ecotoxicology, environmental analysis, decontamination technologies, and environmentally-oriented legislation. All of the above develops graduates capable of thriving in the fields of process engineering, research and development, design, as well as production control, among many others.

UCT Prague boasts many state-of-the-art laboratories open to all students. Source: University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

The MSc in Biotechnology and Food Science is equally impactful a programme designed to produce experts with high-level knowledge in biotechnology, bioengineering and food science, with an emphasis on food quality and safety.

It enhances general knowledge gained at the undergraduate level in biochemistry, organic and physical chemistry, biology, microbiology, food technology and analysis, and the fundamentals of biotechnology and bioengineering. Upon successful completion, graduates are primed to assume high-level positions in biotechnological companies, food production plants, organisations oriented to agricultural commodities, the health care sector or pharmaceutical companies.

Business-focused aspirants easily find their place at UCT Prague as well. Its School of Business houses a Sectoral Management Masters programme that prepares professionals for mid- and top-level management positions in industry, industrial policy, innovation policy, commercial policy and finance. At the same time, it lays a solid foundation for academic advancement or research careers through a PhD. The programme offers two majors: Innovation Project Management and Chemical Industry.

The first option is ideal for students keen on gaining proficiency in Financial Management, Project Management, Process Management or Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Meanwhile, the latter is aimed at those seeking more technical expertise particularly relevant for positions in the chemical, food-processing, fuels, rubber or environmental protection industries.

Anything is possible at a university where graduates have gone as far as developing vaccines in the Czech Republic. To find out how you could make a similar impact, click here to learn more about UCT Prague.

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Concurrent with the commitment to endow the new center, Merkin and the Merkin Family Foundation have provided funds to renovate the eighth floor of Caltech Hall. The reconfigured space, scheduled to open in early 2023, will provide a home for the center as well as a base of operations for the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), which is relocating from its current headquarters in San Jose, California, to Caltech.

Sergei G. Gukov, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, has been named director of the Merkin Center. A member of the Caltech faculty since 2005, Gukov is known for important concepts relevant to string theory, quantum field theory, and pure mathematics.

"Caltech has cultivated extraordinary scholars who think deeply about landmark problems in pure mathematics and collaborate across disciplines," says Fiona A. Harrison, the Harold A. Rosen Professor of Physics and holder of the Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair in the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. "The Institute is also home to a diverse community of researchers who push the frontiers of applied mathematics in areas as wide-ranging as algorithmic economics, computational biology, robotics and autonomous control, and quantum information and computing.

"The Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics will broaden and deepen the impact of the mathematical sciences across campus."

A Passion for Mathematics

As a physician and health care executive, Merkin has devoted much of his philanthropy to supporting basic science and its translation into medical treatments and cures. His love of mathematics, his undergraduate major, has been another significant thread throughout his engagement with Caltech.

Merkin previously endowed two mathematics professorships at the Institute. These positions, together with the Richard N. Merkin Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Artificial Intelligence, will be woven into the Merkin Center.

Jaka Cvitani, the Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance and director of The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences, is an expert in financial economics who focuses on the intersection between computer science and economics. Nikolai Makarov, the Richard Merkin Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, has worked extensively in complex analysis, which investigates functions of complex variables. This field is fundamental to many branches of mathematics and has applications in the natural sciences and engineering.

Both Cvitani and Makarov will serve as advisers to the new Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics, together with Elena Mantovan, a professor of mathematics who focuses on arithmetic geometry and number theory.

Mathematics at Caltech

Although small, Caltech's pure mathematics program is expansive in terms of focus and impact. Mathematics scholars at the Institute work together and with colleagues across disciplines to untangle some of the most difficult problems in the field and have garnered high honors for pushing the frontiers of analysis, combinatorics, group theory, mathematical physics, and number theory. They have written texts that are considered foundational to the discipline, and the Institute relies on them to help impart the quantitative skills in which all Caltech graduates become well versed.

Investigators in the Institute's highly ranked Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) department are active in applied mathematics, communication and networks, computer science, and control and systems. Like Caltech's mathematics faculty, CMS faculty are highly collaborative. They have built partnerships with colleagues in mathematics as well as in applied physics, bioengineering, biology, economics, electrical engineering, geology and planetary sciences, mechanical engineering, and physics.

Caltech is also home to a world-leading research center in quantum information and computation. Scholars affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) explore the interplay of mathematics, computer science, and physics.

Mathematics is central to the work of faculty and students in numerous other areas across campus, in part due to the sheer amounts of data being collected. Among the researchers who stand to benefit from partnership with the Merkin Center are those working on models of neural processing and brain function, predictive modeling of health care diagnoses, election security, earthquake modeling, "smart" energy grids, and climate models to enable more accurate prediction of droughts, heat waves, and rainfall extremes.

Merkin's Previous Support of Caltech

A member of the Caltech Board of Trustees since 2007, Richard Merkin has supported a variety of initiatives across campus. His previous gifts have created the Heritage Research Institute for the Advancement of Medicine and Science at Caltech, founded in 2015 and renewed in 2018 and 2021, which provides cohorts of Caltech scientists and engineers with salary support and no-strings-attached research funds that free them to pursue high-risk, high-reward projects. Merkin also partnered with Caltech to launch the Richard N. Merkin Institute for Translational Research, which enables scientists and engineers to transform their breakthroughs into advances in human health. Additionally, beginning in 2021, the Richard N. Merkin Start-Up Scholars Grants have provided pre-arrival support to help incoming undergraduates from low-income backgrounds make a successful transition to campus life.

"Richard Merkin is a remarkable philanthropist, making possible fundamental discovery across a broad range of fields and encouraging intersections with the practical," says Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the holder of the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics. "Above all, Dick takes joy in making it possible for researchers to thrive, whether they be students, postdocs, or faculty members."

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