PASADENA, California, Sept. 13 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Amy Schulman, managing partner at venture capital firm Polaris Partners and co-founder of the Polaris Innovation Fund, was recently elected to Caltech's Board of Trustees. Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Schulman earned her BA in philosophy and English from Wesleyan University, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, and her JD from Yale Law School. Along with her role as a   more

SAN BERNARDINO, California, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- California State University San Bernardino campus issued the following Faculty In the News wrap up: Mike Stull (entrepreneurship) discussed the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship's 2022 Impact Report that shows the positive impact IECE has on the regional economy, and Brian Levin (criminal justice), was interviewed about the increase in hate crimes in the city of Houston. * * * Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship publishes annual I  more

FULLERTON, California, Sept. 13 -- California State University Fullerton campus issued the following news release: Since alumnus Michael T. Losquadro came out in 1983 as a Cal State Fullerton student, he has been a champion for the LGBTQ+ community. Losquadro, who studied management, became a regular member of what was then CSUF's Gay Student Union. He participated in the student organization until he graduated in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. As a young profession  more

SAN MARCOS, California, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- California State University's San Marcos Campus issued the following news: Cal State San Marcos biological studies professor Sergio Nigenda-Morales is the lead author of the paper "The genomic footprint of whaling and isolation in fin whale populations," which was recently accepted for publication in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Nature is a highly selective scientific journal, meaning only about 8% of the articles submitted are sele  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 13 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: The Caltech Board of Trustees welcomes two new members. Prineha Narang (PhD '15), U.S. science envoy for the State Department and professor in physical sciences at UCLA, and Amy Schulman, a managing partner at venture capital firm Polaris Partners and co-founder of the Polaris Innovation Fund, were elected to the Board in recent months. In total, the Board comprises 55 trustees alongside 21 life  more

SAN BERNARDINO, California, Sept. 13 -- California State University San Bernardino campus issued the following news: The funding will allow the program to continue providing free healthcare services to unsheltered, sheltered and vulnerable populations in the Coachella Valley. The Houston Family Foundation has awarded a $160,000 grant to the Nursing Street Medicine program at Cal State San Bernardino's Palm Desert Campus. The funding will play a pivotal role in allowing the program to continue  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 13 -- Greenberg Traurig, a law firm, issued the following news release: Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP Shareholders Lindsay E. Hutner and Philip I. Person will present at the Practising Law Institute (PLI) Cutting-Edge Employment Law Issues 2023: The California Difference Sept. 12. Hutner, who is co-chairing the event and will give the opening remarks, will speak on the "Year in Review/Hot Topics" panel. Person will speak on a panel titled "Key Wage and  more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 13 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: From the enigmatic HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to the sentient machines that program reality in The Matrix, Hollywood has long been fascinated with the concept of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, as these fictional narratives push the boundaries of possibility, real-world advances in AI raise new and complex questions. As part of Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact: Artificial Intelligence on the Big Scr  more

MERCED, California, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: A UC Merced Materials Science and Engineering professor recently earned a prestigious award from the Army Research Office, a directorate of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory. The Army Investigator Award is the third early career award for Yue "Jessica" Wang. Previously, she received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2019, and t  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * Researchers used machine learning to explore the links between sedentary behavior and dementia, finding that total time spent sedentary matters for brain aging. * * * Adults age 60 and older who spend more time engaging in sedentary behaviors, such as sitting while watching TV or driving, may be at increased risk for developing dementia, finds a new study by University of Arizona and Univ  more

MERCED, California, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: A UC Merced researcher and her teammates around the world have succeeded in measuring the total amount of matter in the universe for the second time. A new paper in the Astrophysical Journal, titled "Constraining Cosmological Parameters using the Cluster Mass-Richness Relation," shows that matter makes up 31% of the universe, with the remainder consisting of dark energy -- answering one of t  more