Higher Education News and Press Releases

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Mitsubishi Electric Invests in OptQC Startup Developing Optical Quantum Computer Hardware: 9/15/2026 12:20:06 PM; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced that its ME Innovation Fund has invested in OptQC Corp., a Japanese startup that develops and provides optical quantum computer hardware.
Silent Gate Media Makes Ancient Egypt Book Free Worldwide for One Day, Alongside a Permanently Free 12-Tool Learning Site: 9/15/2026 9:49:36 AM; Independent publisher Silent Gate Media is making the Kindle edition of “Almost Everything Happened First in Egypt” by Adam Baker free to download worldwide for 24 hours on Thursday, September 17, 2026, from 12:00 a.m.
£162 million boost for vital UK life sciences and materials research: 9/14/2026 11:38:01 AM; The Rosalind Franklin Institute and Henry Royce Institute will share just over £160 million of public funding from the UK government through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for the next five years.
Virtual Charisma Offers a Christ-Centered Vision for Leading Effectively in a Digital World: 9/12/2026 6:00:00 AM; In an era when work is increasingly conducted through screens, messages, and virtual meetings, Dr. George E. Arnold and Susan Snyder offer a timely response in their new book, “Virtual Charisma: Leading with Influence, Trust, and Christ-Centered Vision in a Digital World.” The book will be free on Amazon for two days, September 14 th & 15 th.
Nike and Alabama Expand Their Three-Decade Partnership With 18 Blue Ribbon Elite NIL Signings: 9/8/2026 1:57:59 PM; What’s happening? Nike and the University of Alabama are announcing the addition of 18 top Crimson Tide athletes to Nike’s Blue Ribbon Elite NIL roster.
World-first map of a male fly brain a win for neuroscience: 9/7/2026 9:38:24 AM; The findings, co-led by scientists at Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), are expected to unlock unprecedented insights into the neural mechanisms that shape behaviour.
New method allows scientists to follow gene activity over time in the same cells: 9/7/2026 9:19:24 AM; The following press release was issued by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In recent years, scientists have built methods to measure a cell’s transcriptome, or all the RNA produced by a cell, to study the cell’s identity and genetic activity.
Intel Agentic PCs Give ASU Football an On-Field Edge: 9/7/2026 9:12:13 AM; • Intel collaborated with Arizona State University (ASU) to equip its football program with Lenovo ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition PCs powered by Intel vPro®.
Spin-out technology promises to cut costs of protein production: 9/1/2026 12:48:15 PM; A recent collaboration between Kent scientists and the Science and Technology Facilities Council-supported Central Laser Facility (CLF), has affirmed the remarkable versatility of the technology in expanding the possibilities of protein production.
Professor Bonnie Bassler awarded world’s oldest scientific prize for research on how bacteria talk to each other: 9/1/2026 9:25:47 AM; Renowned microbiologist, Professor Bonnie Bassler, has been named this year’s recipient of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal – the world’s oldest scientific prize.
NSF launches three new Science and Technology Centers with $90M investment in transformative research: 9/1/2026 9:21:23 AM; The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $90 million over five years to support three new NSF Science and Technology Centers (NSF STC). These centers will advance American leadership in science and technology, strengthen the nation’s STEM workforce, and accelerate innovation in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and biotechnology to fusion energy and …
Eight NSF research institutes to propel U.S. quantum science with $290M investment: 8/26/2026 10:24:35 AM; Understanding and wielding the quantum properties of nature is the ambitious objective of eight research institutes that will collectively receive more than $290 million from the U.S.
Royal Society response to GCSE and vocational results: 8/24/2026 11:40:57 AM; Responding to the publication of GCSE and Level 1 and 2 vocational results, Professor Jane Clarke FRS, Chair of the Royal Society Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, said: Congratulations to everyone receiving their results today.
Language skills stay strong in older adults, even while other cognitive abilities decline: 8/24/2026 6:54:29 AM; As people age, many cognitive functions tend to decline. Brain scanning studies have revealed corresponding changes in the function of a brain network that is involved in many of these cognitive functions, including working memory and problem-solving.
America’s Workforce Academy: No Cost. No Prior Experience Necessary. A Career on the Other Side.: 8/20/2026 5:29:04 AM; Takeaways • The first cohort of America’s Workforce Academy (AWA) graduated last week, and we’re sharing their stories, which highlight how AWA is helping them land careers they didn’t think were available to them.