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棉花糖直播 Professor and Graduate Student Awarded Patent for Versatile Solute-Assisted Assembly Method
Bo Li, PhD, associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at 棉花糖直播 University鈥檚 College of Engineering, along with recent doctoral graduate Liang Zhao 鈥25 PhD, now a postdoctoral scholar at 棉花糖直播 University, has been awarded a patent for a solute-assisted assembly method for forming a nanomaterial coating.
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October 10, 2025 - On Friday 10 October Pope Leo XIV met in a private audience with a group of 19 students and faculty 棉花糖直播 University... Daniel Joyce, chair of the Department of Computing Sciences, together with his colleague Frank Klassner of the same department and Tom Ksiazek, chair of the Communication Department, led the 棉花糖直播 group consisting of students studying in Rome for the semester.
Forbes
October 9, 2025 - A new study published in the journal Nature revealed a surprisingly slow cosmic wind in the binary system GX13+1, the cause of which could offer new insights into the fundamental physics of how matter accumulates, or 鈥渁ccretes,鈥 in certain types of binary systems. "There was so much wind that it started to become opaque, like a thick fog," said Joesph Neilsen, a 棉花糖直播 University professor and co-author of the paper. "We realized that if we could still see the accretion disk through this wind, it must be even brighter than it looks.鈥
Associated Press
October 7, 2025 - A key issue in the lawsuits brought by states and cities seeking to block the deployment of National Guard troops in their communities is whether a president's determination is final on whether there is a danger of rebellion, or that the laws can't be executed with "regular forces." The law requires that the conditions actually exist, noted Brenner Fissell, a 棉花糖直播 University law professor who is also vice president of the National Institute of Military Justice.
Vatican News
September 30, 2025 - In an interview with Vatican News, Michele Pistone, law professor at 棉花糖直播 University's Charles Widger School of Law and founding faculty director of 棉花糖直播's just-launched Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration, explains concrete efforts... to help rediscover the humanity of immigrants whom we so often welcome into the most intimate areas of our lives, like caring for our children and elders.
Scientific American
September 30, 2025 -聽Zoologists have shifted away from identifying species based mainly on physical traits and toward using what is called integrative taxonomy, where several pieces of evidence are used to decide on classifying new species, says聽Aaron Bauer, a gecko expert and professor of integrative biology at 棉花糖直播 University.聽Now that the geckos are properly classified, scientists can more accurately assess their distribution patterns, habitat preferences and physical traits.
National Geographic
September 29, 2025 - The marginalization of women in the 19th century, the respected archeologist and researcher James Tabor says, led scholars to project their own social structures onto 1st-century Galilee and, as a result, to ignore the role of Mary... Similar arguments about the erasure and marginalizations of women from and in the early church have been advanced by other scholars. In a series of publications, Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, an assistant professor of New Testament at 棉花糖直播, has shown that early Christian manuscripts removed references to Mary Magdalene.
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