University & College News

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Georgia Tech has won Year Four of the EcoCAR EV Challenge, claiming the top spot in the final year of the collegiate engineering competition. McMaster University took second place, and Virginia Tech received third place. Managed by Argonne National Laboratory and headline sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors, and MathWorks, the competition challenged students from 15 North American universities to engineer a next-generation vehicle using aut...

DIXON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Northern Bank is proud to announce that President and Chief Executive Officer Jeremiah Smith has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Sierra College Foundation. The Sierra College Foundation supports student success and educational advancement through scholarships, programs, and community partnerships that help create opportunities for students throughout the region. As a member of the Board of Directors, Smith will help support the Foundation’s...

IRVINE, Calif. & CORONA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westcliff University, a leading global institution in career-focused higher education, today announced the appointment of Andrew Nydegger, DNP, MSN-Ed, MBA, RN, as the new dean of its College of Nursing. A military veteran turned clinical practitioner and nursing educator, Dr. Nydegger brings extensive experience in patient care, academic program development and healthcare operations to one of Westcliff's fastest-growing and most mission-critica...

MANASSAS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SPEC Innovations announced the continued expansion of Innoslate® across Europe, supported by the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and new collaborations with leading regional training organizations, Technische Hochschule Augsburg (THA), EVO GmbH, and Lifecycle Model-Based Systems Engineering (LMBSE). The expansion strengthens SPEC Innovations’ ability to provide secure, scalable, and locally supported digital engineering and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) cap...

LISLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DeVry University Advantage Academy Graduates Celebrate Early College Milestones...

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Princeton Battlefield Society (PBS) announced today that Princeton University professor and historian, Dr. Michael A. Blaakman will deliver the first PBS Cadwalader Lecture of 2026 on June 18 at 6 PM at the Nassau Club. Blaakman, a Cromwell Book Prize Winner, is a historian of revolutionary and early national America, and is the creative force behind the highly acclaimed University exhibition, “Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and the American Revolution.” T...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UC San Diego’s Living Lab at Belmont Village Recognized for Advancing Innovation in Senior Living...

HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everest Group, Ltd. (NYSE: RE) (“Everest”), a global underwriting leader, today announced the inaugural recipient of the Joseph V. Taranto Scholarship, an annual renewable award and part of the company’s broader commitment to expanding opportunity and developing the next generation of leaders. Established by Everest and its Board of Directors in honor of former Chairman Joseph V. Taranto, the scholarship supports a college‑bound student who demonstrates acade...

PITTSBURGH & CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic’s Cardiovascular Innovation Research Center, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of interpreting some of the most complex heart scans in medicine, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), without the need for manually labeled training data. The novel system, called CMR-CLIP, is designed to interpret cardiac MRI scans by connecting movin...

MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperagen, a Manchester-based techbio company using AI and quantum physics to engineer better enzymes faster, has closed a £5 million seed funding round led by PXN Ventures with participation from Imperagen’s existing investors IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. The raise brings Imperagen's total funding to £8.5 million and will accelerate research and development, expand its wet lab capabilities, and build out its go-to-market function over the next 18 mon...