DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Duke Engineers Awarded 19 Major Externally Funded Graduate Fellowships Highly competitive national awards will help new and returning graduate students conduct impactful research * Incoming and current graduate students and researchers at Duke Engineering had a successful summer 2025, garnering prestigious national awards and funding opportunities to support their impactful resear  more

ITHACA, New York, Oct. 9 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Kim named inaugural William L. Maxwell Postdoctoral Fellow * Younghoon Kim has been named the inaugural William L. Maxwell '56 Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell's Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. The Maxwell Fellowship was established through a gift from Dev Joneja, Ph.D. '89, in support of Cornell Engineering's Innovations in Medicine initiative. Kim earned his Ph.D. in statistics and operation  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- The city of Greensboro issued the following news on Oct. 9, 2025: * * * MPO Seeks Public Comment on Draft Program of Projects for FY 2026 The Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has released a draft of its Program of Projects (POP) for Fiscal Year 2026 for public review and comment from October 9 through November 8. The document is available for review at www.guampo.org. The Draft POP details planned transit grants for Greens  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2025: * * * Agronomic Service Waste Lab team pioneers new lab testing protocol that saves processing time and money, produces quicker results and increases safety for employees After four years of extensive testing, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is employing a new method for analyzing nitrogen in swine, dairy and poultry  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 8 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Designing Polymers for Use in Next-Generation Bioelectronics Engineered polymers hold promise for use in next generation technologies such as light-harvesting devices and implantable electronics that interact with the nervous system - but creating polymers with the right combination of chemical, physical and electronic properties poses a significant challenge. New research offe  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 8 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Hardware Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Hack AI Training Data Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run. "What we've discovered is an AI privacy attack," says Joshua Kalyanapu, first aut  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2025: * * * NCDHHS, Universities Partner on a New Five-Year Program to Improve and Expand Social Work Workforce The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the North Carolina Social Work Coalition on Workforce Development are partnering to create a Public Service Leadership Program (PSLP) that will strengthen the state's social work wor  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Oct. 9 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * WFU to host dedication ceremony for Hopkins Residence Hall * On Saturday, Oct. 25, Wake Forest will celebrate the renaming of South Residence Hall to Hopkins Residence Hall in honor of Larry and Beth Hopkins, two trailblazing alumni with deep ties to the University and Winston-Salem. The program begins at 10 a.m. The announcement of the renaming of South Hall was shared at the University's Foun  more