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Powering advances in wireless connectivity for the future
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Washington, DC - The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces an important milestone in its Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) effort. In collaboration with an industry consortium of 28 networking companies and associations, NSF is supporting the development and deployment of the first two PAWR research platforms, based in Salt Lake City and New York City. These platforms will power research motivated by real-world challenges on experimental, next generation wireless test beds at the scale of cities and communities. The goal is to advance the state of the art for wireless technology beyond today's 4G, LTE and emerging 5G capabilities.
State Department Announces Gilman Top Producing Institutions
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the inaugural list of U.S. higher education institutions that sent the most students overseas on the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program in academic year 2016-2017. The list recognizes the institutions that made international study and internships more accessible and inclusive for the highest number of American students of all backgrounds through the Gilman Program.
Three UCLA faculty members awarded 2018 Guggenheim Fellowships
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- Written by Jessica Wolf
Los Angeles, California - Three UCLA professors were awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation — Nile Green, professor of history; Eleanor Kaufman, professor of comparative literature; and Stefania Tutino, professor of history and Italian.
Bacteria can pass on memory to descendants
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Los Angeles, California - Led by scientists at UCLA, an international team of researchers has discovered that bacteria have a “memory” that passes sensory knowledge from one generation of cells to the next, all without a central nervous system or any neurons.
Cosmic quirk helps astronomers pinpoint the farthest star ever seen
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Los Angeles, California - More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally, it would be much too faint to view, even with the world’s largest telescopes. Through a quirk of nature that tremendously amplifies the star’s feeble glow, however, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to pinpoint this faraway star. They also used Icarus to test a theory of dark matter, and to probe the makeup of a foreground galaxy cluster.
UCLA scientists merge statistics, biology to produce important new gene computational tool
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- Written by Christopher Crockett
Los Angeles, California - The cells in our bodies express themselves in different ways. One cell might put a chunk of genetic code to work, while another cell ignores the same information entirely. Understanding why could spur new stem cell therapies, or lead to a more fundamental understanding of how organisms develop. But zeroing in on these cell-to-cell differences can be challenging.
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