Agencies and Funding

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (435+ words) The following content is based on the presentation "Open Access in Astronomy - Why Should I Care?" (Feb. 2021). The presentation slides of this and other presentations by the ESO Librarians on various topics can be found on a dedicated webpage. For…...

15+ hour, 5+ min ago   (165+ words) Grace Moore '21, a recent graduate in materials science and engineering, has been named a Michel David-Weill Scholar and will pursue research at Sciences Po. Her career plans are to work at the intersection of sciences and environmental policy. Centers, Labs,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (292+ words) Penn State professor Lauren Zarzar has been named a recipient of the 2026 Schmidt Science Polymath Award. Zarzar, a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, is one of the eight researchers selected this year from a pool of more…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (220+ words) Students in grades 5-8 are invited to the 11th Annual STEM Pathways for All Conference on Saturday, October 17, from 9:00am to 4:00pm at Santa Fe Community College.Presented by STEM Santa Fe, the day includes hands-on STEM workshops led by local scientists, engineers, and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (293+ words) The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics is accepting applications for its tuition-free residential program, offering high school juniors and seniors a unique STEM education experience. The Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics has opened enrollment for its tuition-free residential…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1075+ words) Dr Maria Alhajji. Image: University of Limerick Dr Maria Alhajji discusses her energy storage research and the Sophia Project, a physics outreach initiative at UL that engages school students. Researchers and scientists can draw their inspirations and motivations from many…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (247+ words) Foremost food company, Golden Penny Foods alongside banking giants, Stanbic IBTC; NASCO Group, BIC, Vitazade and Munro are some of the corporate brands and organisations that have thrown their weight Mathema 3.0, the third edition of Nigeria’s premier secondary school competition…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (898+ words) Claira Johnson has spent her undergraduate years following big questions across disciplines, continents and millions of years of Earth's history. This spring, those efforts earned national recognition when she was named a Udall Scholar, one of the nation’s most prestigious…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (202+ words) The previous post looked at how to interpret cosine similarity, or equivalently angles between word vectors. In a high-dimensional space, randomly chosen vectors are likely nearly perpendicular, and so relatively large angles, such as 50°, indicate very closely related words. Another…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (450+ words) Two phys­ics pro­fess­ors make the sub­ject of phys­ics easier to under­stand by mov­ing les­sons bey­ond for­mu­las, lec­tures, and text­book dia­grams. Dr. Cecilia O. Bucay­ong of…...