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Virginia Tech: Busy as a Bee - Insect Researcher Brad Ohlinger Becomes New Grants Specialist at Veterinary College
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, May 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
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Busy as a bee: Insect researcher Brad Ohlinger becomes new grants specialist at veterinary college
By Kevin Myatt
Brad Ohlinger's research has focused on how bees do a "waggle dance" to convey information to one another and why ants follow one behind the other.
Now, his role is to convey information for securing research funding and to get words, numbers, and people to line up for large sums of money to flow into Virginia Tech research.
Ohlinger Ph.D. '23 started in March as the grants specialist in the Office
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BLACKSBURG, Virginia, May 20 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
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Busy as a bee: Insect researcher Brad Ohlinger becomes new grants specialist at veterinary college
By Kevin Myatt
Brad Ohlinger's research has focused on how bees do a "waggle dance" to convey information to one another and why ants follow one behind the other.
Now, his role is to convey information for securing research funding and to get words, numbers, and people to line up for large sums of money to flow into Virginia Tech research.
Ohlinger Ph.D. '23 started in March as the grants specialist in the Officeof Research and Graduate Studies at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
Some might find this an unexpected detour for someone like Ohlinger who has already made his mark with 14 publications in entomology through research at Virginia Tech and the University of Georgia. But Ohlinger instead sees that research as a gateway into discovering his own unique path into higher education.
"As a part of that research, I got the opportunity to submit some grant proposals," Ohlinger said. "And I really liked the challenge of developing a compelling research narrative, big picture thinking while still complying with all the details of the formatting guideline requirements of a funding request. So it's like a puzzle, you have both the big picture and the detail-oriented thinking that is required."
Ohlinger added that he is enjoying learning about the components of a university beyond research and instruction. "There's so much more to a university than just the research and the teaching," Ohlinger said. "It's been fun to learn the administrative side."
He will be helping grow what has already been burgeoning research funding for the veterinary college, which has seen its National Institutes of Health funding nearly double in eight years, rising from No. 24 to No. 13 nationally among veterinary colleges, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Ohlinger, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, with a bachelor's degree from hometown Albright College... and a master's from Bloomsburg University (now part of Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania), earned his doctorate at Virginia Tech and did postdoctoral research at Georgia, focusing on behavior and communication patterns of social insects such as bees and ants.
He and his wife Amy enjoyed Virginia Tech so much that they wanted to come back to Blacksburg, which also halved the distance to family in their native Pennsylvania.
While Ohlinger is well-versed in biology, working in a veterinary college is a new environment for him.
"I'm learning a lot," Ohlinger said. "The technical language has been a challenge to get up on, all the new terminology, but it's kind of the same basic structure. It's the scientific method. They're developing hypotheses, they're developing experiments, they're testing them. All of that is still there, so it's pretty easy to pick up."
The veterinary college takes research an extra step, he explained, to applications that directly affect the health of animals and people.
"I was doing curiosity-based research," Ohlinger said. "Here, there's the One Health focus and translational research focus that aims to understand diseases that affect humans and animals, take laboratory insights into a clinical setting. It's cool to see the direct impacts on the real world, and a lot of fun to be around that."
Ohlinger said his central purpose in the new role is to help drive the veterinary college's research programs by giving faculty the assistance they need in developing competitive grant proposals. Individually, he said his goal is to "learn as much as I can and have some fun doing it."
Ohlinger has not entirely left research, with some lingering projects from both his Ph.D. and postdoc pursuits.
"I think that's a really good position to be in, because it keeps my researcher brain active and I'm working with researchers," Ohlinger said. "It's good to be able to plug into that on the weekends or in the evenings and then plug into the administrative side at work."
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Original text here: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/vetmed-new-grants-specialist.html
SUNY Potsdam Opens Fully Online Pathway to Careers in Special Education, With Virtual MST Program
POTSDAM, New York, May 20 -- The State University of New York Potsdam campus issued the following news:
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SUNY Potsdam Opens New Fully Online Pathway to Careers in Special Education, with Virtual MST Program
SUNY Potsdam is expanding access to careers in special education with the launch of a new fully online Master of Science in Teaching degree in inclusive and special education, designed for individuals from a wide range of academic backgrounds.
Designed for both career changers and recent college graduates, the program allows aspiring educators from any undergraduate background to work
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POTSDAM, New York, May 20 -- The State University of New York Potsdam campus issued the following news:
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SUNY Potsdam Opens New Fully Online Pathway to Careers in Special Education, with Virtual MST Program
SUNY Potsdam is expanding access to careers in special education with the launch of a new fully online Master of Science in Teaching degree in inclusive and special education, designed for individuals from a wide range of academic backgrounds.
Designed for both career changers and recent college graduates, the program allows aspiring educators from any undergraduate background to worktoward their initial New York State teaching certification in Students with Disabilities (All Grades). No GRE scores are needed to apply, and applications are now open.
Learn more: Inclusive & special education graduate studies at SUNY Potsdam
Adding to SUNY Potsdam's top-ranked and growing selection of virtual programs, the MST can be completed fully online, and students can begin in either the fall or spring. Summer classes are also offered as part of the degree.
"Our program provides the unique blend of an evidence-based system for preparing each of our students for personal growth and professional success, while creating opportunities for individualized and personalized instruction from our instructors, who each bring a depth and breadth of real-world classroom experiences. With a focus on the individual, we pride ourselves on creating a flexible and adaptable learning environment for every learner," said Assistant Professor Dr. Donald Wheeler, who coordinates the program.
The nationally accredited graduate program can be completed in four, five or six semesters, allowing flexibility for teacher candidates to study full- or part-time, while balancing career aspirations with other responsibilities. Upon completion, graduates are prepared to seek initial New York State teacher certification in Students with Disabilities (All Grades).
"As a former superintendent, I experienced firsthand the growing challenge school districts face in finding certified special education teachers. The need has never been greater for compassionate, highly skilled educators who can support diverse learners and help every child reach their potential," said Interim Dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies Jaime Cruikshank '92 & '97. "This new program creates an important pathway to special education certification for individuals who already hold a bachelor's degree in another field and are ready to make a meaningful difference in the lives of students. SUNY Potsdam is proud to respond to this urgent need by preparing the next generation of special education professionals."
The program meets New York State's Students with Disabilities (All Grades) initial certification requirements and aligns with national Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) accreditation standards. Coursework covers key areas, including autism foundations, cultural linguistic responsiveness, and interdisciplinary content methods.
The new MST degree complements SUNY Potsdam's existing Master of Science in Education (MSED) degree in special education, leading to initial or professional certification in either early childhood (birth-Grade 2), childhood (Grades 1 to 6) or adolescence (Grades 7 to 12, generalist).
"One of the things I appreciated most was that the program was fully asynchronous, which allowed me to balance graduate school while working full-time in the classroom. I never felt overwhelmed or rushed, and the workload always felt manageable and meaningful," said MSED program graduate Faith Griffin '26. "What really made the program special, though, was the support from the professors and staff. Every professor I had was knowledgeable, understanding, and genuinely invested in student success... The program not only helped me grow professionally as an educator, but it also made me feel confident and prepared entering the field."
SUNY Potsdam offers highly regarded programs at the undergraduate and graduate level across education disciplines, from baccalaureate programs to new flexible online graduate programs and advanced certificates leading to initial or professional certification. The College is nationally accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
Student teaching field work and the culminating student teaching internship requirements are coordinated by the SUNY Potsdam Center for School Partnerships and Teacher Certification, which works with candidates to find appropriate placements with schools wherever they are located.
The School of Education and Professional Studies at SUNY Potsdam has been preparing educators for more than 200 years. Today, that legacy of educational excellence also stretches to undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, public health and human performance, to help students prepare for professions in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.potsdam.edu/academics/SOEPS.
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About SUNY Potsdam:
Founded in 1816, The State University of New York at Potsdam is one of America's first 50 colleges--and the oldest institution within SUNY. Now in its third century, SUNY Potsdam is distinguished by a legacy of pioneering programs and educational excellence. The College currently enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Home to the world-renowned Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam is known for its challenging liberal arts and sciences core, distinction in teacher training and culture of creativity. To learn more, visit www.potsdam.edu.
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Original text here: https://www.potsdam.edu/news/MSEDSpecialEd
N.C. State: Economists Solve a Mystery Involving International Trade and Competition From China
RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 20 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release:
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Economists Solve a Mystery Involving International Trade and Competition From China
Economists have identified - and resolved - a seeming paradox regarding how competition from China affects the price and volume of products that are exported from other countries into the United States. The findings shed new light on the complex dynamics of international trade and how the effects of trade competition vary drastically for poor nations compared to their wealthy counterparts.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina, May 20 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release:
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Economists Solve a Mystery Involving International Trade and Competition From China
Economists have identified - and resolved - a seeming paradox regarding how competition from China affects the price and volume of products that are exported from other countries into the United States. The findings shed new light on the complex dynamics of international trade and how the effects of trade competition vary drastically for poor nations compared to their wealthy counterparts.
"Theprice of products facing heightened market competition from China decrease more than products that are not facing as much competition from China - that's not surprising," says Hamid Firooz, co-lead author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of economics in North Carolina State University's Poole College of Management. "But our study identifies two interesting effects regarding the export of those high-competition products from other countries.
"First, the price of those exports goes down. Second, the quantity of those products being exported into the U.S. actually goes up. And both of those effects - lower prices and increased exports - are more pronounced for poorer nations than for wealthy ones.
"This creates a mystery," Firooz says. "If prices in the U.S. market are going down because China is competing in the marketplace, and those prices are going down more for exports from poorer countries, the conventional wisdom would be that the products being made in poorer countries are similar to the products being made in China - whereas richer countries are making products that are distinct from the Chinese products. But if poorer countries are in more direct competition with China compared to wealthy countries, why would exports from poor countries increase more relative to rich ones? It seems like a paradox, and we wanted to find out what was going on."
To explore the issue, the researchers drew on international trade data from 1992 through 2005, detailing the unit price and quantity of exports into the U.S. from 197 countries across thousands of different product categories.
The researchers then used an empirical model to precisely document what they were seeing in terms of export prices and quantities, and developed a theoretical model in an attempt to understand what was driving that behavior.
"The theoretical model showed that 'quality upgrading' was the primary driver for this phenomenon involving exports prices and quantities," says Firooz. "The main reason wealthy countries reduced prices and increased exports less than poor countries was because manufacturers in rich countries were better able to increase the quality of their goods compared to manufacturers in poor countries. In other words, businesses in rich countries responded to increased competition from China by increasing the quality of their products.
"By the same token, manufacturers in poorer countries were less likely to have the resources necessary to upgrade product quality," says Firooz. "That means they were more likely to respond to increased competition by cutting prices. And decreased prices led to greater consumer demand, which explains the increased quantity of exports from poorer countries."
The researchers then tested the quality upgrading mechanism identified by the theoretical model to see if it matched what they saw in the export data.
"We found that the results of the theoretical model fit the data," says Firooz. "It explains what was going on.
"These findings are interesting, because we both identified and solved an international economic mystery. But the findings also highlight the role that quality upgrading can play in international markets. This underscores the importance of access to capital and equipment and raises questions about everything from labor productivity to wage inequality. These are promising areas for future research."
The paper, "Cross-Country Heterogeneous Response to Competition: Theory and Evidence from Trade Data," is published in the Review of Economics and Statistics. Co-lead author of the paper is Hamed Atrianfar at JPMorganChase.
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Note to Editors: The study abstract follows.
"Cross-Country Heterogeneous Response to Competition: Theory and Evidence from Trade Data"
Authors: Hamed Atrianfar, JPMorganChase; Hamid Firooz, North Carolina State University
Published: May 14, Review of Economics and Statistics
DOI: 10.1162/REST.a.1772
Abstract: We document that in response to intensified competition from China in the U.S., poor countries reduce their export prices relative to rich countries, consistent with conventional wisdom. Interestingly, however, the opposite is true for export quantities. To reconcile these facts, we develop and estimate a general equilibrium model of trade featuring (i) cross-country heterogeneity in the ability to produce high-quality goods and (ii) a two-dimensional Bertrand competition on price and quality. Our model explains the empirical facts by showing that rich countries have a comparative advantage in quality upgrading, whereas a nested model without quality cannot do so.
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Original text here: https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/05/international-trade-mystery-solved/
Greece gifts Olympia to Australia for the 2032 Games
BRISBANE, Australia, May 20 -- The University of Queensland posted the following news:
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Greece gifts Olympia to Australia for the 2032 Games
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The Hellenic Republic has made the historic decision to loan Australia priceless artefacts illustrating the ancient Olympics for the 2032 Games. Greece rarely makes such a loan: the first time it did so was for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This time Australia is being offered twice as many artefacts, and many from Olympia - the site of the ancient Games for 1,000 years. The exhibition will be the most significant one on the Olympics
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BRISBANE, Australia, May 20 -- The University of Queensland posted the following news:
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Greece gifts Olympia to Australia for the 2032 Games
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The Hellenic Republic has made the historic decision to loan Australia priceless artefacts illustrating the ancient Olympics for the 2032 Games. Greece rarely makes such a loan: the first time it did so was for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This time Australia is being offered twice as many artefacts, and many from Olympia - the site of the ancient Games for 1,000 years. The exhibition will be the most significant one on the Olympicsever staged outside Greece.
The first modern Olympics were held in Athens in 1896, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games have since become the world's largest secular event. Impressive as this history is, it is still only a small part of a much older and longer story. The ancient Greeks staged Olympics for 1,000 years, attracting sports stars from across the 1,000 Greek states of the Mediterranean basin. With 40,000 spectators, theirs were also the world's largest event.
Rediscovering a religious sanctuary
The Brisbane Olympics Exhibition will tell the remarkable story of the rediscovery of the long-lost games site of Olympia. In 1874 AD, Greece signed a contract with Germany to excavate the site, with the contract stipulating for the first time that the artefacts would remain in Greece.
The first temple excavated was that of Zeus Olympios, leader of the pagan gods and in whose honour the ancient Olympics were held. What was unearthed by archaeologists literally rewrote the history of western art. The temple contained depictions of the heroic deeds of Hercules, the mythical superman who supposedly founded the Olympics, as well as a 12-metre-high statue of Zeus made entirely of gold and ivory. Created by the builder of the Parthenon, Pheidias, at a workshop at Olympia in the 420s, it quickly counted among the 7 wonders of the ancient world.
Found around the temple were monuments trumpeting military victories, bronze sporting equipment, Games regulations and pieces of statues that Olympic victors had commissioned of themselves. There were also thousands of bronze statuettes which had been offered as thanks by worshippers to an oracle of Zeus at Olympia which had answered military questions for centuries.
Track and field events
The ancient Games had a sprint race the length of the stadium as well as other footraces. The pentathlon had the 5 standard events: the sprint, javelin, long jump, discus and wrestling. But these differed from the modern ones in interesting ways. Long jumpers at the ancient Olympics used hand weights in order to jump longer and in one foot race, the runners wore military equipment.
Combat sports
The 3 combat events at the ancient Games were even more warlike: boxing, wrestling and the 'pankration', similar to kickboxing. Ancient Greek boxing gloves were designed like knuckledusters. They protected a boxer's hands while causing gaping wounds on his opponent's face.
Statues of victorious boxers at Olympia unsurprisingly showed them with flattened noses, facial scars and cauliflower ears. Combat events generally ended when a competitor was bashed unconscious or was otherwise forced to give up. Serious injuries or even deaths at the ancient Games were common.
War and peace
In the first 8 years of their dig, the Germans decided against excavating the Olympic stadium itself. This had to wait for a dark milestone in Olympia's rediscovery: the 1936 Berlin Olympics. It is still shocking that the new German regime co-opted the ancient Games. As part of its propaganda, it invented a ritual that we take for granted today: the Olympic torch relay. This was purely a Nazi invention because there was no such relay at the ancient Games.
German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler used his own discretionary funds to pay for the Olympic stadium's excavation, which unearthed thousands of weapons and pieces of armour.
The ancient Greeks often made a trophy for a military victory by hammering such items onto a pole, set up on the battlefield. But the dig also showed the Greeks set up duplicate military trophies in the Olympic stadium itself. Peace might be a cherished ideal of the modern Olympics. But the ancient Games were much more linked to war.
Image: Some helmets that were once part of duplicate military trophies that Greek states set up in the stadium at Olympia (Archaeological Museum [Olympia]).
Photo credit: The German Archaeological Institute (photo no. D-DAI-ATH-2017-00372). Photographer: K. V. von Eickstedt.
Chariot racing
The ancient Olympics included races for chariots, horses and mule-carts. The 'agon', or contest for 4-horse chariots, was the veritable formula-one racing of ancient Greece. It was the sport of choice of Greek tyrants, Macedonian kings and in time, Roman emperors. Because the chariots were usually driven by hired professionals, victory had nothing to do with the courage of team-owners.
In the 390s BC, the Spartan king Agesilaus wanted to make this criticism by getting his sister Kyniska to enter. He reasoned that if she, as a mere woman, won, everyone would see how worthless the event was. Kyniska did win, and defiantly commissioned statues of herself and her team to display at Olympia, with a poem boasting that she was the first-ever female Olympic victor.
Sportswomen
A statuette of a Greek sportswoman was left as a thanks-offering for Zeus at his other oracle at Dodona.
Men in ancient Greece generally thought women lacked the virtues that sport and war required. There was a male anxiety too that women might well have extramarital affairs if they were allowed to workout in public.
It comes as no surprise that women were barred from competing in person at the ancient Games or from practising sport more generally.
Nevertheless, there was one state where they were allowed to be sportswomen - Sparta. But this did not mean Spartan men were proto-feminists. Rather they thought that sport ensured that their wives would bear strong males for the Spartan army.
Image: A statuette of a Spartan sportswoman from the 540s BC from the sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona (National Archaeological Museum [Athens], inv. no. KAP24).
(Photo credit: Irini Miari and Kostas Xenikaki)
Sport beyond the Olympics
The ancient Olympics was just one event of an international circuit of 4 international sports festivals held at Corinth, Nemea and Delphi. The citizens of every Greek state swelled with national pride when a fellow citizen won at such panhellenic games. Victors were given the highest civic honours of free front-row tickets at local games and free meals - for life.
The 1,000 states of the classical Greek world also staged their own local sports festivals. The greatest of them was the Great Panathenaea - the sporting festival for Athena. Olympic sports were also a standard part of male schooling across the Greek world.
Roman Olympia
Rome's conquest of Greece was good and bad for the ancient Olympics. In 69 AD, the infamous Roman emperor Nero insisted on entering a 10-horse team into the 4-horse chariot race. Driving the team himself, he came last after repeatedly falling out of his chariot. Elis's games-umpires prudently proclaimed him the victor anyway.
The ancient Greeks worshipped Zeus at Olympia for more than a millennium. But his worship there ended abruptly in 393 AD when Theodosius I, a zealous Christian emperor, outlawed pagan rites. The workshop of Pheidias, still standing, was converted into a church. Within a few centuries, even the Christians had abandoned Olympia because of devastating earthquakes and local floods. The former games-venue would remain buried under alluvial silt for more than 1,000 years. What the Germans began rediscovering there in the 1870s would quickly become the main impetus for the incredible revival of the Olympic Games in modern times.
About the author
Associate Professor David M. Pritchard teaches Olympic history at UQ's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. He worked on the cultural program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games and is now working with the Hellenic Republic and Australian stakeholders on the Brisbane Olympics Exhibition. This article is an excerpt from a public lecture he will give at this year's Brisbane Greek Festival.
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Original text here: https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-05-greece-gifts-olympia-australia-2032-games
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering: Oral GLP-1s Without Fasting or Reduced Efficacy
DURHAM, North Carolina, May 20 (TNSjou) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news:
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Oral GLP-1s Without Fasting or Reduced Efficacy
New oral drug delivery approach protects peptide-based drugs like GLP-1s from destruction in the stomach.
By Ken Kingery
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new approach to delivering GLP-1 medications orally that does not require fasting and maintains their efficacy. The technique could also be useful for any pharmaceutical based on peptides such as insulin or treatments for irritable bowel syndrome, HIV
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DURHAM, North Carolina, May 20 (TNSjou) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news:
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Oral GLP-1s Without Fasting or Reduced Efficacy
New oral drug delivery approach protects peptide-based drugs like GLP-1s from destruction in the stomach.
By Ken Kingery
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new approach to delivering GLP-1 medications orally that does not require fasting and maintains their efficacy. The technique could also be useful for any pharmaceutical based on peptides such as insulin or treatments for irritable bowel syndrome, HIVand osteoporosis.
The research appeared online May 13 in the journal Cell Biomaterials.
Peptides are essentially strings of amino acids too short to form proteins. The human body naturally produces at least 7,000 of them that carry out a wide range of functions like healing, hormone regulation and muscle growth. There are dozens of FDA-approved peptide-based medications, including insulin for diabetes and the increasingly popular GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss.
Regardless of their use, all peptide drugs have one thing in common: They are typically injected rather than consumed. This is because the stomach's digestive process breaks down peptides the same way it does a chicken breast.
"Over one in eight people in America have already taken a GLP-1, and a significant portion of them are scared of needles," said Max Ney, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, who worked on the study as a doctoral student at Duke. "There's been a push for an oral formulation, and our lab is a leading group that works with a biomaterial that we thought could work as a delivery vehicle."
One option already in use combines the peptide with a base to temporarily neutralize stomach acid. This is how current oral GLP-1 formulations work. This approach, however, requires the patient to take the medication on an empty stomach and reduces its effectiveness.
The biomaterial Ney wanted to pursue instead is called an elastin-like polypeptide, or ELP for short. These are also naturally produced by the body and, like proteins, are responsible for regulating many biological processes. But unlike proteins, which have defined shapes, ELPs are more like chaotic globs of noodles that stick together.
That chaos helps researchers tailor the properties of synthetic versions of ELPs. By carefully controlling their amino acid building blocks, biomedical engineers can dictate their structural integrity based on the surrounding environment. This allows researchers to design ELPs that transform between solids and liquids and back again based on variables like acidity and temperature.
"My lab has been working to figure out how to tailor bespoke ELPs for a wide range of applications for over a decade," said Ashutosh Chilkoti, the Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering. "Drug delivery has long been one of our primary targets, and this use case is particularly well suited to our platform."
To engineer this new delivery system, Ney turned to lowly yeast. When stressed, the internal pH levels of yeast cells often become more acidic, damaging or destroying proteins within. Some yeast, however, have evolved defense mechanisms where polypeptides self-assemble to protect critical components.
Working from this natural example, Ney designed a synthetic version of this self-assembling protection that is sensitive to both temperature and acidity. He then modified a GLP-1 drug to contain the same self-assembling instructions borrowed from the yeast.
When all of the ingredients are put together under the right conditions, the result is a protective bioparticle containing GLP-1 that can be suspended in liquid. When entering the digestive tract, the bioparticles remain solid until they enter the intestines. There, the specific temperatures and pH levels cause them to break down and release the medication, completely bypassing the stomach's destructive acids.
When tested in mice, the new delivery formulation was just as effective at reducing their weight amidst high-calorie diet options as the injected version of the GLP-1. And because all of the constituent parts are easily produced by E. coli, the approach would be easy to scale up for manufacturing purposes.
While pharmaceutical companies do have small molecule oral versions of GLP-1s that can be taken at any time already in clinical trials, early results show a reduced efficacy. And the researchers in this study envision a much wider array of potential uses than only GLP-1s.
"There are a lot of peptide drugs out there that have barriers to development and commercialization that could potentially benefit from this type of a delivery strategy," said Ney. "If people have the option between an injection and an oral medication, they're going to choose the oral. This could also help a lot of peptide drugs become more widely accessible."
The research was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-20-1-0241).
"Intrinsically disordered protein coating for oral delivery of peptide drugs." Max Ney, Parul Sirohi, Yulia Shmidov, Anurag Singh, Gable Wadsworth, Xinghai Li, James Zheng, Erica Peng, Lixin Fan, Tharun Selvam Mahendran, Sonal Deshpande, Navya Tripathi, Jonathan C. Su, Joshua James Milligan, Yun-Xing Wang, Priya R. Banerjee, and Ashutosh Chilkoti. Cell Biomaterials, 2026. DOI: 10.1016/j.celbio.2026.100460
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Original text here: https://pratt.duke.edu/news/oral-glp-1/
Case Western Reserve: Ten Years on the CNBC Disruptor 50 - Goldberg Helps Select 2026 List
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 20 -- Case Western Reserve University issued the following news:
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Ten years on the CNBC Disruptor 50: Goldberg helps select 2026 list
Veale Institute executive director has spent a decade helping shape CNBC's annual ranking--and watching the list transform around him
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The first time Michael Goldberg helped select the CNBC Disruptor 50, the iPhone was less than a decade old, ChatGPT did not exist, and the companies near the top of the list included Airbnb and Snapchat.
Ten years later--when CNBC unveiled its 2026 list this week--the new No. 1 was Anthropic, the AI
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 20 -- Case Western Reserve University issued the following news:
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Ten years on the CNBC Disruptor 50: Goldberg helps select 2026 list
Veale Institute executive director has spent a decade helping shape CNBC's annual ranking--and watching the list transform around him
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The first time Michael Goldberg helped select the CNBC Disruptor 50, the iPhone was less than a decade old, ChatGPT did not exist, and the companies near the top of the list included Airbnb and Snapchat.
Ten years later--when CNBC unveiled its 2026 list this week--the new No. 1 was Anthropic, the AIlab now in talks to raise capital at a valuation as high as $900 billion.
Goldberg, executive director and associate vice president of the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve University, serves on the Disruptor 50 Academic Advisory Board--a group of leading entrepreneurship scholars from institutions including MIT, Dartmouth, Columbia, Georgetown, Indiana, Notre Dame, and Tulane, among others.
"In 2016, you'd read a submission and the company was solving a problem you already understood--a better way to get a ride, a better way to rent a room, a better way to pay online," said Goldberg, a professor of design and innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management. "Now, we consider companies building autonomous warships, or platforms that let you bet on the next Supreme Court ruling."
Goldberg added, "The problem some companies are solving did not exist five years ago--and in some cases the industry didn't exist five years ago."
For CNBC, Goldberg's board is one of two advisory panels--the other drawn from top venture capital firms--that help CNBC weigh and rank the companies before its editorial staff make the final call.
A decade of difference
The list itself tells a story.
Forty-three of this year's fifty companies say AI is critical to their business model. The combined valuation of the 2026 class is roughly three times last year's--and two entirely new categories, vibe coding and prediction markets, made the list for the first time.
For Goldberg, who teaches early-stage finance and entrepreneurship, among other courses, at the Weatherhead School, says his work with CNBC and his teaching inform each other.
His students, after all, are about to walk into the world that this list describes.
"Every year I come back from this with something I didn't expect," he said. "That's part of the point--if I'm surprised, my students need to hear about it."
The 2026 Disruptor 50 list is available at cnbc.com/disruptors.
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Original text here: https://case.edu/news/ten-years-cnbc-disruptor-50-goldberg-helps-select-2026-list
BHSU-Rapid City Awards Over $100,000 in Scholarships to Rapid City Students
SPEARFISH, South Dakota, May 20 -- Black Hills State University issued the following news:
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BHSU-Rapid City awards over $100,000 in scholarships to Rapid City students
Black Hills State University is continuing its investment in the Rapid City community through the recent award of $108,700 in scholarships to local students studying at the BHSU-Rapid City campus, with additional funding still available for students planning to enroll for Fall 2026.
The scholarships, designated specifically for Rapid City-area students, were made possible through contributions from Monument Health, the
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SPEARFISH, South Dakota, May 20 -- Black Hills State University issued the following news:
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BHSU-Rapid City awards over $100,000 in scholarships to Rapid City students
Black Hills State University is continuing its investment in the Rapid City community through the recent award of $108,700 in scholarships to local students studying at the BHSU-Rapid City campus, with additional funding still available for students planning to enroll for Fall 2026.
The scholarships, designated specifically for Rapid City-area students, were made possible through contributions from Monument Health, theJohn T. Vucurevich Foundation, and the Black Hills State University Foundation.
Recipients represent a wide range of student backgrounds, including first-time freshmen, nontraditional students, active-duty military students and their dependents, and international students studying in Rapid City. These funds help reduce financial barriers and support students pursuing degrees aligned with regional workforce needs.
"BHSU-Rapid City and our partners are intentionally investing in the Rapid City community by helping West River students achieve their educational goals," said Vice President for University Advancement Steve Meeker. "These scholarships reflect a shared commitment to student success and the long-term vitality of our region."
BHSU-Rapid City will continue awarding scholarships throughout the summer, with more funds still available for eligible students from the Rapid City area. The remaining funds are intended to support prospective students who are still considering enrollment for the upcoming fall semester.
University leaders say the investment reflects a broader commitment to strengthening the local workforce and expanding access to higher education in western South Dakota.
"BHSU is proud to be an engine of economic development in western South Dakota," said Ashley Armstrong, vice president for Continuing Education and Workforce Development. "Our programs prepare students for locally in-demand careers. We collaborate closely with the community, and together with our generous partners, contribute directly to workforce growth and the overall betterment of the place we live."
Prospective students and their families are encouraged to apply for admission and explore available scholarship opportunities as the university continues its efforts to make higher education more accessible and affordable.
For more information about programs and scholarships at BHSU-Rapid City, visit BHSU.edu/RapidCity.
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Original text here: https://www.bhsu.edu/news/2026/05/bhsu-rc-scholarships.html
