31-Mar-2026 ORNL to feature transformative tech at ARPA-E summit DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will share their discoveries and innovations at DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit in San Diego, California, April 7-9. ARPA-E funds high-risk, high-impact energy technologies that can be quickly and meaningfully advanced to catalyze bleeding-edge energy research. Funder US Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
31-Mar-2026 Dirk Nowitzki honored at UT MD Anderson’s A Conversation With a Living Legend® Dallas University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Former NBA champion Dirk Nowitzki was honored Monday, March 23, during The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s A Conversation With a Living Legend® Dallas. MLB great and former Living Legend honoree Clayton Kershaw joined Nowitzki in bringing together a distinguished audience of donors and supporters united in the mission to end cancer.
31-Mar-2026 Huge quantities of German ammunition lie at the bottom of Norwegian lakes Norwegian University of Science and Technology The stockpile of German ammunition left in Norway in 1945 could have been cleared and dismantled by the Germans. Norway declined and began dumping it in Lake Mjøsa and other lakes instead.
31-Mar-2026 NYU Langone Transplant Institute celebrates 10 years of saving lives NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine The NYU Langone Transplant Institute, which launched in March 2016, celebrates a decade of saving lives and transplanting over 4,270 organs while maintaining the highest quality standards in the nation.
31-Mar-2026 Reinforcing depleted Caribbean Coral Species through targeted Larvae Exchange SECORE International Caribbean coral reefs are on the brink of collapse. Disease and fatal bleaching, particularly in 2023, have claimed many victims, and with parent colonies becoming scarce, there is a lack of offspring. Even human-assisted breeding faces a major problem: the threat of inbreeding and the resulting weakening of generations to come. To address this, SECORE has launched a new program to establish a network that facilitates the exchange of genetic material between regions: the Caribbean Coral Larvae Exchange Program.
31-Mar-2026 MATAM, “Türkiye’s Apollo Project,” Inaugurated Istanbul Technical University The inauguration ceremony of the Marmara Active Fault Hazard and Risk Application and Research Center (MATAM), established through the collaboration between Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and İşbank, was held on August 13, 2025, at the ITU Ayazağa Campus.
31-Mar-2026 Industry looks to University of Tennessee for AI innovation, workforce development University of Tennessee at Knoxville The University of Tennessee, Knoxville convened the inaugural AI Tennessee Summit in Nashville (March 25–26), bringing government, industry, and academic leaders together to discuss AI challenges and opportunities statewide. Through its AI Tennessee initiative, UT is coordinating research, education, and workforce development, expanding applied AI programs, certificates, and industry partnerships to strengthen Tennessee’s AI talent pipeline.
31-Mar-2026 FIU researchers develop adapted swim lessons that improve water safety skills for autistic children Florida International University Florida International University researchers are preparing future therapists to play a key role in keeping autistic children safe in and around the water. Journal Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences Funder FIU Embrace Center for Advancing Inclusive Communities
31-Mar-2026 In one of Africa’s most studied environmental crises, a Rice University team is collecting and analyzing missing data Rice University For more than a decade, Rice University’s Frederi Viens has been studying a body of water that much of the world believes is disappearing. The work centers on Lake Chad, a vast freshwater lake in west-central Africa that borders Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Long portrayed as a symbol of climate collapse, Lake Chad is frequently described as having shrunk to a fraction of its former size, a claim that has shaped policy discussions, humanitarian rhetoric and media coverage for years. But Viens’ research tells a more complicated story.
31-Mar-2026 Rice University experts share sustainability strategies for Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale boom Rice University A delegation of researchers from Rice University’s WaTER Institute traveled to Argentina’s Neuquén province this month to help address a pressing question facing one of the world’s fastest-growing energy regions: how to balance rapid oil and gas development with long-term environmental sustainability. At the center of the discussion is Vaca Muerta, a vast shale formation spanning roughly 30,000 square kilometers in the Neuquén Basin. Widely considered one of the most significant unconventional oil and gas resources globally, Vaca Muerta has become critical to Argentina’s energy independence and a focal point for international investment. But its rapid expansion is also bringing new environmental pressures — particularly around water use, wastewater management and land impacts.
