ITHACA, New York, Oct. 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Cornell President Martha E. Pollack gives her State of the University address Oct. 20 in Call Auditorium. From faculty who are shaping the future of artificial intelligence to students engaging with each other across difference to alumni winning some of the world's highest honors, Cornell advanced its unique mission through a wide range of achievements in 2023, President Martha E. Pollack said in her State of the Univer  more

SINGAPORE, Oct. 24 (TNSres) - BloombergNEF, a part of Bloomberg, issued the following news release: Vietnam's long-term goal to phase out the use of coal for power generation by the 2040s and achieve net zero by 2050, faces challenges that arise from its rapid economic growth and increasing power demand. Renewables, and in particular solar, are set to be the cheapest option for Vietnam to meet the country's growing need for electricity, according to a new report published by research firm Bloom  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, Oct. 24 -- Enterprise Community Partners issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2023: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise), through its community development arm Enterprise Community Development (ECD), for committing to reduce portfolio-wide greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50% within 10 years and to work with DOE to share successful solutions and decarbonization strategies. As a partner in DOE's Better   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Field Museum issued the following news release: More than 4 billion years ago, when the Solar System was still young and the Earth was still growing, a giant object the size of Mars crashed into the Earth. The biggest piece that broke off of the early Earth formed our Moon. But precisely when this happened has remained a mystery. In a new study in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters, researchers used crystals brought back from the Moon by Apol  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Oct. 24 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2023: Today, President Biden and the Economic Development Administration, or EDA, announced an LSU-led consortium, Gulf Louisiana Offshore Wind, or GLOW, Propeller, as one of only 31 newly designated Tech Hubs positioned to revitalize American manufacturing, create jobs and strengthen U.S. economic and national security within a decade. LSU's GLOW Propeller was selected from hundreds of a  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news: * * * Report highlights five states and their clean energy progress, areas of growth and key roles in helping the U.S. reach net-zero emissions targets. * * * A new report by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) found that, as the world grapples with the urgent need to build resiliency against global warming, large businesses and employers in the Midwest are striving to reduce their carbon footprints by setting  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: * * * * New study analyzes tiny crystals inside lunar dust collected in 1972 by the last manned mission to the Moon * By estimating the crystals' age, researchers report the oldest lunar date yet * Researchers used Northwestern's atom-probe tomography tools to perform radiometric dating * * * By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, researchers recalculated t  more

VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- Royal Roads University issued the following news release: Northern regions are particularly and disproportionately vulnerable to the effects of climate change. These regions are warming three times as fast as the global rate due to a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Arctic and sub-arctic communities are designing inventive, location-specific ways to adapt to a rapidly warming environment, says Leslie King, professor in the School of Env  more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Space Foundation issued the following news release: Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983, offering information, education and collaboration for the global space ecosystem, will release The Space Report (https://www.thespacereport.org/) 2023 Q3 tomorrow, Oct. 24. Highlights include: * Space workforce in the United States and around the globe showed continued strong growth. * India's lunar lander demonstrated the acceler  more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 24 -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: Tennessee Tech University has entered new territory as a national research institution; receiving the single largest research grant in the university's 108-year history and tasked with a mission to modernize aging electric grids by leveraging the energy capabilities of the Appalachian region. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) - an economic development partnership between the federal   more

TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * An interesting pathway could have led the moon fragment to reach Earth's orbital space. * * * In 2021, a team of University of Arizona astronomers suggested that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo`oalewa, could be a chunk of the moon. Two years after the striking discovery, another UArizona research group has found that a rare pathway could have enabled this to happen. So far  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The White House issued the following commentary on Oct. 23, 2023: * * * Bidenomics in Action: Clean Energy Jobs and Investments Taking Hold Across America By Heather Boushey, Chief Economist, Investing in America Cabinet New analyses of data from the Department of Energy, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), and the U.S. Energy Information Administration show clean energy job growth and record investments in the clean power sector since President Biden  more