NEW YORK, May 5 -- Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news: * * * Geologist Mike Kaplan Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow Kaplan studies the ways ice sheets, mountain glaciers, climates and landscapes changed in the past. By Olga Rukovets Mike Kaplan was heading to the dentist's office when he received a career-highlight email. "I will always remember where I was," he says. A research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Colum  more

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, May 4 -- West Virginia University posted the following news: * * * Meet the grads: After 65 years, WVU Potomac State College student graduates * Carl Smith is a man who believes in starting what he finishes. But when he watched his children, grandchildren, and even his wife go off to institutions of higher learning and earn degrees that propelled their lives forward, he felt pangs of regret. He never finished college. It's the one project he never completed. An  more