STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Oct. 24 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: Eighteen years ago, a third-grade student loaded his steer roping horse, Blue Creek, into a trailer to make the trip to Stillwater. However, they weren't traveling to compete in a rodeo; they were headed to the Oklahoma State University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. Blue Creek had developed colic and was in and out of the hospital several times over the next few weeks. This meant frequent trips to   more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Oct. 25 -- Florida State University issued the following news: By Stephen Stone On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an outbreak of Escherichia coli (E. coli) linked to McDonald's quarter pounders. According to the Associated Press, 49 cases between Sept. 27 through Oct. 11 were reported in the states of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Known widely as E. coli, the bacteri  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Oct. 25 -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: The Oklahoma State University chapter of the Mortar Board honor society recently named students to its annual list of Top 20 Freshmen Men and Top 20 Freshmen Women, as well as Top 10 Freshmen Men and Women for the 2023-24 class. "The Top 20 Men and the Top 20 Women were selected after grading 154 student applications," said Gunar Aune, Mortar Board Top 10 coordinator. "These individuals completed a series of  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Research using the ALICE experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider suggests for the first time the presence of gluonic quantum fluctuations at the subnucleon level in heavy nuclei. University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicist Daniel Tapia Takaki and his team have published findings detailing the breakthrough discovery in the Editor's Suggestion of Physical Review Letters. "Gluons, the elementary   more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: * * * Expansion plans will scale up production at the University of Missouri Research Reactor, the only U.S. supplier of the lutetium-177 radioisotope. * * * The University of Missouri is stepping up its fight against cancer with a new initiative to ramp up production of no-carrier-added lutetium-177 (NCA Lu-177), a critical ingredient in cutting-edge cancer therapies. Lutetium-177 is the a  more