Syracuse, N.Y., Dec. 15, 2021 – Stephen Kankus will retire as president of NYSERNet effective at the end of June 2022, after a notable 28-year career. Kankus started his tenure at NYSERNet, a private, nonprofit […]
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Congratulations Eden School District Teachers!
NYSERNet would like to congratulate two Eden Central School District teachers who were awarded the Distance Learning Scholarship from Internet2’s CAP program! These scholarship winners receive free, one-on-one, distance learning programs for their class through […]
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Announcing the 2021 Virtual Leadership Series!
A virtual training opportunity for the NYSERNet community to engage in transformational leadership topics empowering you to translate vision into reality. Whether it’s a personal vision, team vision, or institutional vision the monthly topics will […]
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Genetic marker discovery could ease plant breeders’ work
Breeders use genetic markers to bring desirable traits from wild species into their cultivated cousins. Transferring those markers across species has been difficult at best, but a team of grapevine breeders, geneticists and bioinformatic specialists […]
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Experiences early in life have an impact on the brain’s biological and functional development
A new study by a team of neuroscientists at NYU shows experiences early in life have an impact on the brain’s biological and functional development. Its findings, which centered on changes in mice and rats, […]
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Engineers mix and match materials to make new stretchy electronics
A process developed by MIT engineers may be the key to manufacturing flexible electronics with multiple functionalities in a cost-effective way. The process is called “remote epitaxy” and involves growing thin films of semiconducting material […]
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A new understanding genetic origins of Cancer!
A team led by researchers from Princeton has opened the door to a new understanding of the disease’s genetic origins, the discovery involves areas of DNA that do not directly code for the proteins that […]
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CRISPR Technology to Target RNA Viruses
Researchers at the New York Genome Center and New York University have developed a new kind of CRISPR screen technology to target Ribonucleic acid (RNA). The findings led them to identify a critical “seed” region […]
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Quanta Magazine Launches New Podcast, ‘The Joy of x’
Quanta Magazine is expanding its illumination of fundamental math and science with a new podcast titled “The Joy of x.” Hosted by mathematician Steven Strogatz, the new series features intimate conversations with scientists about their […]
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Rewriting human history through our DNA
It’s only been in the last 30,000 years, the mere blink of an evolutionary eye, that modern humans have occupied the planet as the sole representative of the hominin lineage. However, we carry evidence of […]
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