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Hertz Foundation announces 19 recipients of the 2026 Hertz Fellowship

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Grant and Award Announcement

The Hertz Foundation, the nation’s preeminent nonprofit organization committed to advancing American scientific and technological leadership, has announced 19 recipients of the 2026 Hertz Fellowship in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics. Awarded through a rigorous selection process honed over eight decades, the Hertz Fellowship is the nation’s most competitive doctoral fellowship in science and technology. Hertz Fellows receive up to five years of financial support — a stipend and full tuition equivalent — offering the rare freedom to pursue bold ideas and a community of influential peers dedicated to their success.

Funder: Hertz Foundation

USDOT awards $10 million to OU-led autonomous freight movement project

University of Oklahoma
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers from the University of Oklahoma’s Gallogly College of Engineering are helping address logistical and safety challenges on American roadways throough a major research project backed by federal funding.

Funder: U.S. Department of Transportation

Causes of excess deaths in the US compared with other high-income countries

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this repeated cross-sectional study of cross-national mortality, the U.S. had substantially higher death rates than other high-income countries between 1999 and 2022, despite having similar access to advanced medical technology. Many of these excess U.S. deaths could likely be avoided by adopting health and social policies that have benefited other high-income countries. These descriptive findings should be interpreted in light of uncertainty arising from differences in death coding, data completeness, and other aspects of data comparability across countries.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Physician-reported safety outcomes of AI-generated hospital course summaries

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this study, a large language model-based agentic workflow produced hospital course summaries that were frequently used with minimal risk of harm identified. The intervention was associated with a reduction in physician burnout, supporting the viability of AI summarization to mitigate documentation burden.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Barua extracting high resolution harmonic fingerprinting from sparse sampling to disaggregate complex CVDs

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Anomadarshi Barua, Assistant Professor, Cyber Security Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for the project: “Extracting High Resolution Harmonic Fingerprinting FromSparse Sampling to Disaggregate Complex CVDs.”

Funder: Office of Naval Research

Good vibrations for quantum communications

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have demonstrated, for the first time, a single quantum of vibrational energy interacting with a single atomic spin, seeding a pathway to quantum technologies that use sound as an information carrier, instead of light or electricity.

Journal: Nature

Toward artificial muscles that bend and twist on demand

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Harvard researchers have developed a 3D printing method that places “active” liquid crystal elastomers and “passive” elastomers side‑by‑side in filaments, effectively pre‑programming the filaments to bend, twist, expand, or contract in specific ways when heated or cooled.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A new explanation for 'Snowball Earth'

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study by planetary scientists at Harvard offers an explanation for one of Earth’s great climate puzzles: how the Sturtian glaciation, an ancient ice age when the planet was nearly entirely frozen, could have lasted 56 million years.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Printed oxygen "highways" shatter the 2D transistor speed limit

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team has successfully removed the primary obstacle to post-silicon computing by using a room-temperature printing process to create a record-breaking electronic connection for atomic-thin materials.

By applying a 3.6-nanometer-thick "skin" of gallium oxide GaO_x between metal wires and a semiconductor sheet, the researchers achieved an electron mobility of 296 cm²·V⁻¹·s⁻¹ - the highest ever recorded for this type of material.

Journal: International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing