A landmark partnership between the Wet’suwet’en Nation and UBC is pioneering a made-in-B.C. solution to the global plastic crisis, turning local forestry waste into biodegradable foam packaging.

The University of Virginia School of Data Science has named Zuhair Taha the inaugural recipient of the Onward Philip E. Bourne Memorial Innovation Scholarship. Established by Lee and Alexis Bradshaw, the scholarship honors the legacy of founding dean Philip E. Bourne and his commitment to innovation, opportunity and using data science to make a positive impact. The scholarship provides support for students pursuing UVA’s online M.S. in Data Science program.

Less than a year after earning his doctoral degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Rice University, Thiago J. Pinheiro is already helping tackle one of the fundamental challenges facing fusion energy — using some of the world’s most advanced computing tools. Pinheiro is now a postdoctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he studies the atomic-scale behavior of molten salts and other materials relevant to energy technologies. He recently played a key role in a collaboration among ORNL, Cleveland Clinic and IBM that performed the first known quantum computing calculations on molecular structures in a molten salt relevant to fusion energy.

A new Rice Brain Institute collaboration is bringing together robotics, neuroscience and clinical expertise to explore a more active approach to stroke rehabilitation. Led by Keya Ghonasgi, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Simon Fischer-Baum, associate professor of psychological sciences, the project will use a full-arm bilateral wearable exoskeleton robot to examine whether allowing a stroke patient’s dominant arm to guide movement in the more affected arm can better activate the damaged motor system and improve movement quality and rehabilitation.

Meet three Northwestern University scientists who are reshaping how we think about the ovary — not simply as a reproductive organ, but one of the body’s earliest-aging tissues — and identifying molecular targets that could one day slow its aging.

Quick snapshots of the scientists:

Francesca Duncan focuses on the tissue environment of the ovaries and how this affects egg quantity and quality in both mouse models and humans. 

Dr. Elnur Babayev combines fertility care with basic science research and spearheads the recruitment of patients for Northwestern’s clinical studies on ovarian aging. 

Dr. Kara Goldman, director of Northwestern Medicine’s Fertility Preservation program, studies accelerated ovarian aging to uncover new strategies for preserving ovarian function and improving women’s long-term health.

A story about honour, war and death – and a cornerstone of Western literature. A new Norwegian adaptation of the famous epic The Iliad is about to be published.

Journal of Advanced Ceramics (JAC), the peer-reviewed open-access journal published by Tsinghua University Press, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year with a special series of five invited review articles by distinguished experts in the field. The collection captures the most exciting frontiers in ceramic science and technology, from ultra-high-temperature materials to data-driven discovery.

Known as Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science, the project is bringing researchers from DRI, UNR, and UNLV together to tackle dozens of questions about wildfires — from the impacts on air quality and hydrology to the way that plants and soils recover from burns.  

The Western U.S. is experiencing periods of increasingly intense drought, and higher temperatures are exacerbating the issue by drawing even more moisture from plants and soils into the atmosphere. We see the results in the ever-expanding wildfire footprint, with many of the region’s largest recorded wildfires occurring over the last decade. One DRI scientist is innovating a new way to monitor water stress in trees – one that may help monitor wildfire risk across the region.