GOLDEN, Colorado, May 20 (TNSfund) -- Colorado School of Mines issued the following news on May 19, 2023: Colorado School of Mines, Carbon America and Los Alamos National Laboratory have been awarded $32.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiative to advance the development of a potential carbon storage hub for the Pueblo, Colorado area. CarbonSAFE Eos was one of nine projects selected by DOE as part of a $242 m  more

LOGAN, Utah, May 20 (TNSper) -- Utah State University issued the following news on May 19, 2023: The Utah Board of Higher Education selected Elizabeth "Betsy" R. Cantwell as the 17th president of Utah State University on Friday, following an extensive national search. Cantwell will assume the position later this summer. She succeeds Noelle E. Cockett, who served as president beginning January 2017 and will step down June 2023. "I'm enormously grateful for the Utah Board of Higher Education fo  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers used Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Quantum Computing User Program, or QCUP, to perform the first independent comparison test of leading quantum computers. The study surveyed 24 quantum processors and ranked results from each against performance numbers touted by such vendors as IBM, Rigetti and Quantinuum (formerly Honeywell). The research team  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 17 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Colleen Iversen, ecosystem ecologist, group leader and distinguished staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named director of the Department of Energy's Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments Arctic, or NGEE Arctic, a multi-institutional project studying permafrost thaw and other climate-related processes in Alaska. Iversen has worked as a  more

DALLAS, Texas, May 20 (TNSawa) -- The Society for Science, an organization that promotes the understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement, issued the following news release: Society for Science announced Grand Awards of Regeneron ISEF 2023. Student winners are ninth through twelfth graders who earned the right to compete at Regeneron ISEF 2023 by winning a top prize at a local, regional, state or national science fair. Grand Awards are presented in  more