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Evan Bates Named Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester
POCATELLO, Idaho, June 7 -- Idaho State University posted the following news:
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Evan Bates Named Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester
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The Career Path Internship (CPI) program is excited to announce Evan Bates as the Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester. Bates serves in Idaho State Athletics, where he oversees marketing strategy, fan engagement, and creative initiatives while supervising CPI interns who contribute to many areas of the department.
Bates currently supervises CPI interns Jordyn Horak, Mary Thompsen, Kaili Tucker, Steph Cobos, Soren Hansen, Megan Moore, Colton
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POCATELLO, Idaho, June 7 -- Idaho State University posted the following news:
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Evan Bates Named Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester
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The Career Path Internship (CPI) program is excited to announce Evan Bates as the Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester. Bates serves in Idaho State Athletics, where he oversees marketing strategy, fan engagement, and creative initiatives while supervising CPI interns who contribute to many areas of the department.
Bates currently supervises CPI interns Jordyn Horak, Mary Thompsen, Kaili Tucker, Steph Cobos, Soren Hansen, Megan Moore, ColtonStoddart, and Benny the Bengal.
"The best part of being a CPI supervisor has been building relationships with students and helping them grow both professionally and personally," explained Bates. "It's rewarding to watch interns develop confidence, sharpen their skills, and take ownership of meaningful projects that directly impact our department."
Through their internships, the students Bates supervises play a major role in the success of Idaho State Athletics. CPI interns assist with game presentation and run of show, game operations, graphic design and social media, photography and videography, creative media production, internal communications with ticketing and donor relations, and helping authentically tell the stories of ISU student-athletes. Their work gives them hands-on experience while contributing to the overall fan and student-athlete experience.
Originally from Montesano, Washington, Bates attended Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, where he studied sport management and played baseball for the Wildcats. During his time at Linfield, he interned with the university's Athletics Sports Information Department, worked production camera for football broadcasts, and volunteered at major events including the 2021 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in Eugene and the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in Portland.
After Linfield, Bates attended Central Washington University, where he served as a graduate assistant for External Relations in the athletics department. Over the summers, he worked as a baseball coach for the Port Angeles Lefties, a collegiate summer baseball team in the West Coast League. Shortly after graduating, Bates joined Idaho State Athletics to lead the marketing department.
"I'm incredibly passionate about our student-athletes and the stories that make Idaho State Athletics special," stated Bates. "There are a lot of ways to get people excited about sports, but it all starts with the student-athlete experience. For students interested in the creative space, Idaho State Athletics offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience, build a professional portfolio, and develop real-world skills in a fast-paced environment."
Outside of work, Bates is a huge Seattle sports fan. He also enjoys collecting vinyl records and Bronze Age comic books and is a board game enthusiast.
The Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester award also included three runners up: Dr. Minhaz F. Zibran - ISU Department of Computer Science, Marie Stango - ISU Department of Theatre and Dance, and Denece Schwartz - ISU College of Education.
Operating in its fifteenth year, the CPI program provides approximately 800 paid internship opportunities annually to ISU students and has provided 12,000+ individual internships in that time. CPI internships provide career-related experiences to help students confirm their academic pursuits, gain valuable work experience, and prepare them for life after graduation. For more information about the CPI program visit isu.edu/career.
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Original text here: https://www.isu.edu/news/2026-spring/evan-bates-named-spring-2026-cpi-supervisor-of-the-semester.html
University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez: Literary Meetings Promotes Emotional Well-being and Community Building Among Older Adults
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, June 6 -- The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus issued the following news:
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Literary meetings promotes emotional well-being and community building among older adults
By Mariam Ludim Rosa Velez (mariam.ludim@upr.edu)
The Department of Hispanic Studies of the University Campus of Mayaguez (RUM) develops the project Literary Meetings: Building Community Through Reading, a community initiative aimed at addressing the challenges associated with the accelerated growth of the elderly population in Puerto Rico, particularly in areas related to emotional well-being,
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MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, June 6 -- The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus issued the following news:
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Literary meetings promotes emotional well-being and community building among older adults
By Mariam Ludim Rosa Velez (mariam.ludim@upr.edu)
The Department of Hispanic Studies of the University Campus of Mayaguez (RUM) develops the project Literary Meetings: Building Community Through Reading, a community initiative aimed at addressing the challenges associated with the accelerated growth of the elderly population in Puerto Rico, particularly in areas related to emotional well-being,cognitive health and the reduction of social isolation.
"Recent figures show that the elderly population in Puerto Rico has increased significantly over the past decade. This change poses important challenges, so in the face of this reality, an essential question arose: how can a university institution contribute from its area of knowledge? From the Department of Hispanic Studies, the answer has been and is to contribute through literature, reading and community building," said Dr. Alexandra Morales Reyes, director of the aforementioned Department, who together with Professor Xiomara Torres Rivera and undergraduate student Joelys Gelabert Cordero, lead the initiative.
He added that the project aims to create safe, stimulating and accessible spaces where participants can share experiences, strengthen emotional bonds and participate in reading dynamics, cultural exchange and social interaction.
"Reading has been widely recognized for its cognitive health benefits. Studies have pointed out that it strengthens the so-called cognitive reserve, a capacity that helps maintain healthy mental functions over time. However, when reading is combined with social interaction, its effects may be even greater. In the meetings, reading ceases to be a lonely experience to become a social act," said Morales Reyes.
He also stressed that each meeting takes place around a theme that serves as a common thread. The moderators present selected readings, such as poetry, stories, letters or other literary genres, and from them are generated questions and conversations that invite to share memories, experiences and personal perspectives.
The project, which has been in development for about a year, held its most recent meeting at the end of May under the theme Among ointments, balms and guarapos: care, memory and legacy.
"The goal was to create a space to share stories and memories about traditional healing methods in our families or communities, particularly those that evoke memories of care. The texts that were shared were: Advice from my mother I: Extremauncion, by the Puerto Rican poet Johanny Vazquez Paz; Abuela I have something broken, by the Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos Febres; and A before, by the Argentine poet Aixa Rava, "explained the director.
He argued that during the meeting the participants had the opportunity to share texts of their authorship or readings of their interest.
"An interactive activity related to the theme of the day was also incorporated. On this occasion, while boleros were sounding in the background, the participants made their own alcoholized Creole, filling small bottles with leaves of malaguette and camphor, while talking about home remedies, family memories and inherited knowledge, "he explained.
Morales Reyes also explained that the team conducted a pilot study to explore the effect of encounters on the emotional well-being of participants.
"The results point to an increase in positive affect levels and a decrease in negative affects, suggesting that initiatives like this can significantly contribute to the emotional well-being of older adults," he said.
As part of the experience, he shared a letter sent by one of the attendees.
"This encounter is a healing group therapy that helps us avoid problems and restores our taste for life. I confess that when I receive the call to the meeting, I receive it as a gift. From that moment, I seem to be in front of a box full of surprises," said the participant in the letter.
In Morales Reyes' opinion, the most important achievement of the project has been "to show that literature can become a meeting point."
"That shared reading can open up space to new friendships, rescue memories and remind us that building community is also a way of care."
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Original text here: https://www.uprm.edu/portada/2026/06/05/encuentroliterarioadultosmayores/
University of Michigan: 'From STEM to Earn' - High School Programs Aimed at Diversifying the Field Drive Gains in College, Salaries
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news:
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'From STEM to earn': High school programs aimed at diversifying the field drive gains in college, salaries
High school students participating in pipeline programs aimed at increasing diversity in STEM fields are more likely to enroll in--and graduate from--elite colleges with a related degree.
Further, such improvements raised their predicted earnings by anywhere from 3%-15%, according to a study co-authored by a University of Michigan researcher.
The study, the first randomized evidence on
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news:
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'From STEM to earn': High school programs aimed at diversifying the field drive gains in college, salaries
High school students participating in pipeline programs aimed at increasing diversity in STEM fields are more likely to enroll in--and graduate from--elite colleges with a related degree.
Further, such improvements raised their predicted earnings by anywhere from 3%-15%, according to a study co-authored by a University of Michigan researcher.
The study, the first randomized evidence onthe impact of STEM-focused summer programs on making it to and through college, points a way toward diversifying campuses through indirect avenues in light of the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision terminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions.
It also highlights an opportunity to intervene in students' lives before applying to college--a crucial point in time when they choose the schools that might ultimately boost their success.
Research finds underrepresented minority students, such as those who are Black, Hispanic and Native American, plan to major in STEM fields at rates similar to those among their white peers but are more likely to switch away from the field or leave college. That suggests college experiences are important factors in earning a STEM degree.
"When we intervene matters," said Sarah Cohodes, associate professor at U-M's Ford School of Public Policy. "So many pipeline programs focus on students already in college or even graduate students or postdocs. If you want to change who is in the pipeline, you need to change where students apply to and attend college, so they are even there in the pool for potential later pipeline interventions."
The study was based on three groups of high achieving, STEM-interested students in related programs and a control group in the summer between their junior and senior years of high school in 2014-16. The programs were held at what researchers describe as "an elite technical university" in the northeastern United States.
All programs included some information on the college admissions process--with a six-week program offering personalized counseling, the one-week program providing information sessions, and the online program including a forum where the students could ask college admissions questions.
All three programs boosted the share of students who attained a bachelor's degree within six years by 2 to 9 percentage points. Degree attainment from elite institutions increased by 9 to 15 percentage points. The degree gains were primarily in STEM fields, reflecting both an overall increase in the number of degrees earned and a shift to STEM fields among graduates.
Ultimately, the research findings imply a student's being offered a spot in one of the summer STEM programs raised his or her potential earnings by 3%-15% via effects on quality of the degree-granting institution and choice of a STEM major.
Cohodes and colleagues note many campuses already have "summer bridge" programs that provide support for underrepresented students in the summer before starting their first year. However, such programs are for those accepted into that particular college, which may mean they arrive too late to reach other students who could be successful at the institution.
Additionally, federal investment in STEM fields is targeted at higher education rather than earlier segments of the pipeline.
"A big part of our findings are consistent with the idea that college quality matters and getting underrepresented students to high-quality colleges makes a difference," Cohodes said. "That is most definitely true, but it's not a zero-sum game. We can also think about what types of support postsecondary institutions need to provide enriching STEM environments even if they are not elite institutions, and what governments can do to invest in higher education."
Cohodes' co-authors on the study, published online in the Journal of Human Resources, are Helen Ho of the nonprofit Chinese for Affirmative Action and Silvia Robles of Brown University's Annenberg Institute.
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Study: Diversifying the STEM pipeline (https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2026/04/01/jhr.1024-13934R2)
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Original text here: https://news.umich.edu/from-stem-to-earn-high-school-programs-aimed-at-diversifying-the-field-drive-gains-in-college-salaries/
University of Birmingham: Who Tests the Chip in Your Phone?
BIRMINGHAM, England, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Birmingham posted the following news:
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Who tests the chip in your phone?
Hidden components inside smartphones can silently track activity beyond your control. Research at Birmingham is exposing the risks before they are exploited.
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Inside every phone are components most users never think about, capable of silently sharing your location, sending messages, or opening a browser without you ever knowing. At the University of Birmingham, Marius Muench has spent years cracking this black box open before the wrong people do.
A digital
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BIRMINGHAM, England, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Birmingham posted the following news:
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Who tests the chip in your phone?
Hidden components inside smartphones can silently track activity beyond your control. Research at Birmingham is exposing the risks before they are exploited.
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Inside every phone are components most users never think about, capable of silently sharing your location, sending messages, or opening a browser without you ever knowing. At the University of Birmingham, Marius Muench has spent years cracking this black box open before the wrong people do.
A digitaldevice can sit idle on a desk, screen locked and untouched, yet still be active in ways its owner cannot see and would not expect. Beneath the screen lies a set of separate processors, each running its own code and carrying its own vulnerabilities.
"I consider myself a researcher in low-level cybersecurity", says Marius Muench, as he introduces his work as Assistant Professor of Cyber Security focused on "everything which is typically not directly visible to the user, but affects them tremendously because it's deployed in all the devices out there."
His work is built on a simple idea: systems need to be tested under adversarial conditions, a principle he has spent years applying to parts of modern devices that the industry has largely left untested.
Untested, hidden, inside every phone
Most people interact with their phone through its operating system--the main software, such as Android or iOS, that runs apps and controls what appears on screen. What sits beneath it is considerably less familiar.
Every phone also contains a second, entirely separate processor with a single dedicated job: managing communication for the phone. "A lot of people are not aware that the software implementing communication with a cell tower--2G, 3G, 4G, 5G--runs on a completely separate chip," says Muench. "It's a dedicated processor, highly proprietary, produced by only five or six vendors in the world...and they keep the source code of their implementation secret."
This system, known as the baseband, operates largely outside the reach of the main operating system. Its code is not publicly available, cannot be independently audited, and offers little opportunity for inspection--whether by external researchers or by the users who rely on it.
The scale of the software involved is significant: Muench estimates it at four times the size of the Windows operating system kernel, and ten times the complexity of the code that flew the Apollo moon missions. Built up over decades, each cellular standard has added features while older ones remain, creating layers of accumulated complexity. "There's a large amount of software, not a lot of introspectability--and as a result, a high-profile impact," Muench concludes.
Because this layer communicates directly with the network, it can be reached over the air. An attacker within wireless range can simulate a cell tower and send crafted signals to test how the system responds. "If you can attack a cellular baseband processor, you get access to a victim's communications," warns Muench, with documented attack chains reaching into the Android runtime, demonstrating how this layer can serve as a foothold into the device.
Yet cellular vulnerabilities remain among the least reported in wireless security tracking, reflecting how difficult these systems are to access and study in practice.
Turbulence testing for smartphones
By default, testing for the baseband follows a narrow pattern: systems are evaluated against expected behaviour. Does the device respond correctly to valid inputs? Does it comply with the standards that define how cellular networks should operate?
This process uses well-formed, legitimate inputs--signals a real cell tower would actually send. While necessary, it only confirms one side of security: that the device complies with its specification. "If you have an aeroplane, you use wind tunnels and stress testing rigs to put it under adverse conditions before it flies," says Muench. "For baseband processors, that kind of adversarial testing doesn't exist in the design process, which is why we built it."
His approach recreates the baseband environment outside the device. Working without access to source code or internal specifications, Muench extracts the compiled code ("binary firmware") directly from the device and replicates it inside a virtual software environment, where it can be subjected to large volumes of adversarial inputs while its responses are observed. The result was FirmWire, published at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022: the first platform to bring systematic adversarial testing to baseband firmware, now widely used across the field.
Moving the firmware into a controlled environment changes what can be tested. "We find attack scenarios and types of bugs which people simply didn't think about, and had no way of testing for," explains Muench, describing a shift that has helped surface more than 20 vulnerabilities across 2G and 4G baseband software stacks, with patches from Google, Samsung, and MediaTek.
The FirmWire approach has since expanded to testing with network-connected phones through BaseBridge and to SIM security with SIMurai. For Muench, these are not separate projects but variations on the same goal: "In my research, what I'm doing is finding new testing methods to make sure a third party can assess the security of these devices, and building tools to make that testing more accessible."
The spec that turns a SIM into a threat
That a component as familiar as the SIM card can act in ways its owner never intended, and never sees, is what makes it worth understanding. This danger begins with a misconception: "What people don't realise is that SIM cards are tiny computers," explains Muench. "They don't just store secrets to access the network; they can directly interact with the phone. And there is a full specification defining what a SIM is allowed to request from the phone."
A SIM can instruct the phone to reveal its location, send an SMS, or open the browser at a specified address; combine the first two, and a hostile SIM becomes a passive tracking device. Muench's work shows that this is not a single vulnerability, but a class of risks that can be understood across three attack surfaces:
1. Physical attacks that require access to the device or SIM. In practice, this can be as simple as placing a thin hardware interposer between the SIM and the phone: a commercially available layer, often sold for carrier unlocking, that can be planted in seconds to manipulate the commands exchanged by the two. Using this approach combined with SIMurai's adversarial testing, Muench's team discovered a regression in Android 14, patched in December 2025, that allowed a SIM inserted into a locked phone to silently open the browser to an attacker-chosen address. "If I lose my phone or it gets stolen, I would be very happy if someone could not access my data. These kinds of things are, in my opinion, not great for a user," reflects Muench.
2. Remote attacks, where the SIM is reached through the same infrastructure that allows it to be managed by the operator. "The software just updates, and the user would never know," warns Muench. Leaked intelligence documents suggest state agencies have been using similar methods to decrypt calls and messages since at least 2010.
3. Technical attacks that exploit flaws in the SIM software itself. Like any software, SIM applications can mishandle unexpected inputs from the phone, turning trusted functionality into behaviour the designers never intended. SimJacker attacks, originally observed in 2019 and still in use today, are showing what this type of SIM exploitation can do at scale: a crafted SMS message exploited a vulnerability in legacy SIM software to silently retrieve the locations of thousands of devices across tens of countries, without any user interaction or visible signs.
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Attack surfaces
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Attacks that require access to the device or SIM. In practice, this can be as simple as placing a thin hardware interposer between the SIM and the phone: a commercially available layer, often sold for carrier unlocking, that can be planted in seconds to manipulate the commands exchanged by the two.
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Where the SIM is reached through the same infrastructure that allows it to be managed by the operator.
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Attacks that exploit flaws in the SIM software itself. Like any software, SIM applications can mishandle unexpected inputs from the phone, turning trusted functionality into behaviour the designers never intended.
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One hole after another
Fixing one vulnerability is not the same as fixing the underlying problem. In 2024, when Marius Muench's team identified a faulty boundary check in the code handling a routine cellular function on Pixel devices, Google patched it and paid a bug bounty; months later, a different flaw appeared in the same function, also later patched: same class of error, different line. For Muench, this makes the case for more comprehensive and systemic security measures. "It's not enough to mitigate vulnerabilities one by one," he says. "We need robust systems in the first place."
There are signs that this is beginning to change, with Muench highlighting Google Pixel 10's memory-safe firmware components and Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Hacking Challenge, which he believes was the first launch-time challenge of its kind from a chipmaker, as examples of the industry beginning to treat security more and more seriously. "Vendors used to say: 'Oh, this is an arcane attack that only works if it's full moon on the first of the month,' he notes, "but there's been quite a shift in recent years: vendors are trying to get their systems secure, looking into proactive security measures, helping academics to do their research and, most importantly, listening to us."
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Original text here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/who-tests-the-chip-in-your-phone
RUM Professor Receives Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award From Purdue University
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, June 6 -- The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus issued the following news:
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RUM Professor Receives Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award from Purdue University
By Mariam Ludim Rosa Velez (mariam.ludim@upr.edu)
Dr. Benjamin Colucci Rios, professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying of the University of Mayaguez (RUM) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), received the Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award 2025-2026, one of the most prestigious recognitions awarded by the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Purdue to
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MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, June 6 -- The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez campus issued the following news:
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RUM Professor Receives Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award from Purdue University
By Mariam Ludim Rosa Velez (mariam.ludim@upr.edu)
Dr. Benjamin Colucci Rios, professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying of the University of Mayaguez (RUM) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), received the Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award 2025-2026, one of the most prestigious recognitions awarded by the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Purdue toits most distinguished graduates.
The award highlights professional career paths characterized by excellence, sustained impact and significant contributions to the advancement of civil engineering. The selection of the honored people is carried out through a rigorous process led by a faculty committee and has the approval of the full cloister of the program, reflecting the institutional commitment to the highest academic and professional standards, as the institution announced in a statement.
Colucci Rios, who earned a master's degree in Civil Engineering in 1980 and his doctorate in 1984 at Purdue University, highlighted that this recognition represents a moment of deep gratitude and reflection on his academic training and the support received from Puerto Rico.
"Eternally grateful to the University of Puerto Rico and my alma mater, the University Campus of Mayaguez, for that first economic assistance 48 years ago that made it possible to carry out my graduate studies in Civil Engineering with a specialty in transportation at the University of Purdue," shared the educator.
The Purdue School of Civil Engineering has a long tradition in training professionals who have been at the forefront of flagship infrastructure projects worldwide, as well as in addressing environmental challenges, economic development and disaster response. Through the Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award, the institution celebrates the careers of those who have left a lasting mark on discipline and society.
"The graduates of our program have been at the forefront of creativity and have contributed decisively to transforming the urban environment and the development of large cities around the world. Our graduates have been instrumental in creating flagship engineering milestones globally," the press part maintains.
Referring to the recognition given by his alma mater, Colucci Rios highlighted the collective value of education and research developed in that institution, as well as the link it maintains with the RUM and its academic community.
"Thanked to the Cloister of Civil Engineering and Construction of the University of Purdue for recognizing the education and research of excellence in civil engineering of our before, now and always, College," said the professor, who obtained the bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering at the College of Mayaguez in 1978.
The educator also dedicated words of thanks to his wife, Professor Lizette Bisot de Colucci, for the support provided since the beginning of his professional career. "I thank Lizette, who accepted the challenge of this trajectory together when we barely had two weeks of marriage."
Throughout his academic and professional career, Colucci Rios has distinguished himself by his contribution to the field of transportation engineering, integrating teaching, research and service to the profession. His work has contributed to the training of multiple generations of engineers and the strengthening of the knowledge applied in infrastructure, work that has earned him numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career, both in the academic and professional fields.
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Original text here: https://www.uprm.edu/portada/2026/06/05/coluccirecibealumniawardpurdue/
Queen Mary University of London: Freshwater Methane Emissions Maximized by Global Warming
LONDON, England, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news:
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Freshwater methane emissions maximised by global warming
It is not just cows that emit the powerful greenhouse gas methane - microbial emissions from the natural world will inevitably increase as our planet continues to warm.
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A new study led by Professor Mark Trimmer of Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, explains how increases in natural methane emissions will be maximised under future climate warming.
Say 'methane' and most people think of
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LONDON, England, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news:
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Freshwater methane emissions maximised by global warming
It is not just cows that emit the powerful greenhouse gas methane - microbial emissions from the natural world will inevitably increase as our planet continues to warm.
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A new study led by Professor Mark Trimmer of Queen Mary University of London, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, explains how increases in natural methane emissions will be maximised under future climate warming.
Say 'methane' and most people think ofcows, yet nearly half of all methane is produced by microbes in the natural world, especially lakes, ponds and wet soils. How much methane reaches our atmosphere depends on a balance between the production of methane by one type of microbe and the consumption of methane by another type. We know in a simple sense that these methane related microbes are stimulated by warming, but how both types will respond to warming over the next century is unknown.
The scientists used a unique natural experiment spanning the northern hemisphere to test the effect of warming on the methane balance over centuries to millennial time scales that is, after plenty of time for the microbes to adjust to climate change. They used samples collected from naturally warmed streams in remote parts of Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Kamchatka (Russia). They showed that while methane consuming microbes do work harder under warmer conditions, they cannot fully check the extra methane being produced with warming. Worryingly this new study thus describes a seemingly inevitable increase in methane emissions as Earth continues to warm, building a positive feedback loop through climate change and still higher temperatures.
Scientist Dr Sarah Faye Harpenslager (now of B-Ware Research Centre and Radboud University) who led the field work to remote sites near the Arctic said "Doing fieldwork in these remote settings was both a unique and challenging experience. Luckily, we had a great multidisciplinary team of scientists, working together to collect samples and perform measurements under difficult conditions."
And Professor Gabriel Yvon-Durocher of the University of Exeter said "What is remarkable is that despite the complexity of microbial processes involved in the emission of methane from natural ecosystems, we find the same strong temperature sensitivity among the diversity of geothermally heated freshwaters across the Arctic region".
This methane research formed part of a wider project led by Professor Guy Woodward of Imperial College and Professor Alex Dumbrell of the University of Essex who said: "We have now shown how the combined effects of warming has contrasting effects on microbes that produce methane versus those that consume it - this new insight required a uniquely ambitious genes-to-ecosystems field campaign, which spanned intercontinental scales".
The research paper can be accessed here: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02649-2.
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Original text here: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/news/latest-news/2026/science-and-engineering/se/freshwater-methane-emissions-maximised-by-global-warming-.html
Evan Bates Named Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester
POCATELLO, Idaho, June 6 -- Idaho State University posted the following news:
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Evan Bates Named Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester
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The Career Path Internship (CPI) program is excited to announce Evan Bates as the Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester. Bates serves in Idaho State Athletics, where he oversees marketing strategy, fan engagement, and creative initiatives while supervising CPI interns who contribute to many areas of the department.
Bates currently supervises CPI interns Jordyn Horak, Mary Thompsen, Kaili Tucker, Steph Cobos, Soren Hansen, Megan Moore, Colton
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POCATELLO, Idaho, June 6 -- Idaho State University posted the following news:
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Evan Bates Named Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester
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The Career Path Internship (CPI) program is excited to announce Evan Bates as the Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester. Bates serves in Idaho State Athletics, where he oversees marketing strategy, fan engagement, and creative initiatives while supervising CPI interns who contribute to many areas of the department.
Bates currently supervises CPI interns Jordyn Horak, Mary Thompsen, Kaili Tucker, Steph Cobos, Soren Hansen, Megan Moore, ColtonStoddart, and Benny the Bengal.
"The best part of being a CPI supervisor has been building relationships with students and helping them grow both professionally and personally," explained Bates. "It's rewarding to watch interns develop confidence, sharpen their skills, and take ownership of meaningful projects that directly impact our department."
Through their internships, the students Bates supervises play a major role in the success of Idaho State Athletics. CPI interns assist with game presentation and run of show, game operations, graphic design and social media, photography and videography, creative media production, internal communications with ticketing and donor relations, and helping authentically tell the stories of ISU student-athletes. Their work gives them hands-on experience while contributing to the overall fan and student-athlete experience.
Originally from Montesano, Washington, Bates attended Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, where he studied sport management and played baseball for the Wildcats. During his time at Linfield, he interned with the university's Athletics Sports Information Department, worked production camera for football broadcasts, and volunteered at major events including the 2021 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials in Eugene and the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in Portland.
After Linfield, Bates attended Central Washington University, where he served as a graduate assistant for External Relations in the athletics department. Over the summers, he worked as a baseball coach for the Port Angeles Lefties, a collegiate summer baseball team in the West Coast League. Shortly after graduating, Bates joined Idaho State Athletics to lead the marketing department.
"I'm incredibly passionate about our student-athletes and the stories that make Idaho State Athletics special," stated Bates. "There are a lot of ways to get people excited about sports, but it all starts with the student-athlete experience. For students interested in the creative space, Idaho State Athletics offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience, build a professional portfolio, and develop real-world skills in a fast-paced environment."
Outside of work, Bates is a huge Seattle sports fan. He also enjoys collecting vinyl records and Bronze Age comic books and is a board game enthusiast.
The Spring 2026 CPI Supervisor of the Semester award also included three runners up: Dr. Minhaz F. Zibran - ISU Department of Computer Science, Marie Stango - ISU Department of Theatre and Dance, and Denece Schwartz - ISU College of Education.
Operating in its fifteenth year, the CPI program provides approximately 800 paid internship opportunities annually to ISU students and has provided 12,000+ individual internships in that time. CPI internships provide career-related experiences to help students confirm their academic pursuits, gain valuable work experience, and prepare them for life after graduation. For more information about the CPI program visit isu.edu/career.
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