Columbia has launched the Year of Water, an interdisciplinary investigation of water in all its social, political, cultural, economic and environmental complexities. This interdisciplinary approach makes “clear how water has become perhaps the central issue […]
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Professor El-Bassel and her team at the School of Social Work, Columbia University was awarded an $86 million grant to reduce opioid overdose deaths in New York State. The study, which was funded on April […]
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In a study conducted by NYU professors, it was found that swapping a single amino acid in a simple bacterial protein changes its structure and function, revealing the effects of complex gene evolution. Importantly, through […]
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We are pleased to announce that Long Island University (LIU) is now a member of the NYSERNet Community and Integrated Access Service. Long Island University’s mission is to provide excellence and access in private higher […]
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Neuroscientist at Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute says that common experience plays a role in everything from drug addiction to academic failure. Boredom is “leprosy of the soul” and the root of all […]
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Just 50 to 150 nanometers thick, about 1/1,000th the thickness of a single human hair, Nanolaser can fit and function inside living tissues, with the potential to sense disease bio-markers or perhaps treat deep-brain neurological […]
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The Federal Communications Commission has authorized its first two city-scale testbeds for wireless communications and network technology experiments, including 5G, across a range of spectrum bands. Rice University, a partner at the Salt Lake City […]
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An engineer at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering creates the first protein-engineered hydrogel that meets those criteria, advancing an area of biochemistry critical not only to the future of drug delivery, but also to […]
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Internet2 partners with community members on the $20 million NSF grant funded FABRIC, a collaborative project involving eighteen institutions that will provide a nationwide test-bed for reimagining how data can be stored, computed and moved […]
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A new Stony Brook University-led study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides a biophysical model that reveals how with age, damage accumulates in the shapes of cellular proteins and triggers […]
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