TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The University of Arizona's Arizona Astrobiology Center has received a $1 million gift from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer turned philanthropist, to support interdisciplinary research exploring the origins of life and consciousness. The academic field of consciousness studies explores the mysteries of how we experience the world, focusing on how thoughts and feelings emerge from the bra  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The White House issued the following news release on Sept. 24, 2024: President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend the Inauguration of Her Excellency Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo on October 1, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico. Dr. Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States, will lead the delegation. * * * Members of the Presidential Delegation: The Honorable Ken Salazar, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico The Honorable Xavier B  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona's Native Nations Institute issued the following news release: * * * The NNI team were responsible for content at two separate conferences for Tribal leaders in the summer of 2024. * * * It was a busy summer for the Native Nations Institute (NNI) Tribal and Direct Services (TDS) team! In the midst of attending to a surge in demand for their in-person Tribal facilitation and executive education services, the lean team of four als  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: The University of Arizona College of Information Science will help more students - especially those from historically underrepresented backgrounds - get paid internships in community archives, thanks to a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation's Public Knowledge Program. The grant will support the work of a collaborative of library and information sciences faculty members from nine universities acros  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Astronomers from the University of Arizona, along with an international group of researchers, observed the atmosphere of a hot and uniquely inflated exoplanet using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The exoplanet, which is the size of Jupiter but only a tenth of its mass, is found to have east-west asymmetry in its atmosphere, meaning that there is a significant difference between the two edges o  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: It's been a year since NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered the largest-ever asteroid sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. Since then, intriguing clues about the early solar system and potential origins of life on Earth have emerged from study of the sample, under the leadership of OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta, a Regents Professor of planetary sciences at the Univ  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Investments to Protect Freshwater Resources, Enhance Drought and Climate Resilience Our nation's lakes, rivers, streams, estuaries, and wetlands are fundamental to the health, prosperity, and resilience of our communities and are held sacred by many Tribal Nations. They are not only the sources of clean drinking water that flows into the taps of our homes, but are  more