ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Eckerd College issued the following news: During his Spring Break trip last March to the shark lab at the Bimini Biological Field Station in the Bahamas, William Szelistowski, Ph.D., associate professor of biology and marine science at Eckerd College, told the staff about Qingsong "Seisho" Song and his shark skulls. Seisho, a sophomore environmental studies student at Eckerd, has been collecting the skulls ever since he discovered a prehistoric mega  more

RUSTON, Louisiana, Dec. 17 (TNSres) -- Louisiana Tech University issued the following news: Dr. Jordan Blazo, Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Louisiana Tech University, partnered with Aspen Institute to complete its State of Play annual analysis of national trends in the delivery of sports activities for children and adolescents. The survey took place in September and October 2022 with the mission to understand the key factors in how young people from the ages of 6 to 18 approach sports.  more

LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 15 (TNSfund) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University researchers are part of a team that recently received a $4.6 million grant from the United States Department of Energy to further solar energy research. Nadia Kouraytem, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is leading USU's contribution to this multi-institution project aimed at manufacturing metallic materials better equipped to withstand the operational conditio  more

LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 15 (TNSpar) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University and National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan are opening the door for students to complete a collaborative Ph.D. program at both universities. USU and NCHU will provide prospective students the chance to earn a dual degree from the USU College of Engineering and the NCHU College of Engineering within five engineering disciplines -- biological, environmental and civil, electrical and compute  more

LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 15 (TNSres) -- Utah State University issued the following news: Julia Gossard, associate professor in the Department of History at Utah State University and associate dean for research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, has been named the 2023 Norm Jones Faculty Fellow. To qualify for the fellowship, which carries a $4,000 honorarium, faculty must be tenured in history, religious studies, or classics and demonstrate excellence in the main area of the role state  more

LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 15 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: It can be easy to assume that the vast stretches of desert in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado are mostly barren landscapes -- but in truth, the sagebrush-strewn Colorado Plateau is awash with treasure. Above the ground, rare plants like milkvetch, beardtongue penstemon and sclerocactus manage survival under the harshest of ecological conditions, each something of an ecologically niched miracle. Far be  more