WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Arizona State University's McCain Institute issued the following news on Jan. 6, 2025: The McCain Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) today announced President Salome Zourabichvili as its 2025 Kissinger Fellow. Zourabichvili has served as president of Georgia since 2018. She previously served as Georgia's first female minister of foreign affairs, where in 2005, she negotiated the withdrawal of Russian military bases from Georgia. She also was elected as a majorita  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (TNSsta) -- The Semiconductor Industry Association issued the following statement on Jan. 6, 2025: * * * The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today released the following statement from SIA President and CEO John Neuffer commending the announcement of a new CHIPS for America research and development (R&D) facility in Arizona for semiconductor prototyping and advanced packaging. The facility's prototyping research will be operated by the National Semiconductor Technol  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Jan. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy, a bit like raising a pair of binoculars at the moon in hopes of making out individual grains of dust inside its craters. Thanks to a cosmic quirk of nature, however, an international team led by astronomers at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory did just that.   more