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Exploring Careers in Health Institute Inspires Nevada County Students to Pursue Futures in Healthcare

Nevada County high schoolers gained hands-on hospital, nursing lab, and EMS experience during a 4-day healthcare career institute hosted by NCSOS and local partners.

Oct 22 • 9:18 AM EDT • Health • yubanet.com

UConn's Queer Science Conference Challenges Stereotypes, Inspires Students

UConn hosts fifth annual event for high schoolers

Oct 22 • 7:15 AM EDT • Science • today.uconn.edu

Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com

New Episode “The Science Fair Disaster” Inspires Children to Embrace Science, Creativity, and Learning from

— Keisha and Alexis’ Grand Adventures, an educational animated YouTube series for children ages 5–10, introduces its latest episode, “The Science Fair

Oct 19 • 12:45 AM EDT • Science • einnews.com

Meet the 19-year-old ASU student running for Maricopa County office

At a time when many young people have become disillusioned with politics, Matta is hoping his candidacy inspires them to get involved.

Oct 15 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • azcapitoltimes.com

The 8-Bit Show: Connecting art, science & activism with PangeaSeed

On the latest episode of The 8-Bit Show, host Hekla Petursson sits down with the founder of PangeaSeed to discuss how the organization connects people with the ocean and inspires them to protect it.

Oct 14 • 12:30 PM EDT • Science • wric.com

Lee Health: Understanding our community's health needs

Lee Health's mission is to be a trusted partner, empowering healthier lives through care and compassion. This mission inspires me and drives our team members and the work they do every day and night. We recognize that to be a trusted partner, we need to know our patients and the communities we serve. We need to understand their changing health needs, the disparities that exist, barriers to care, and the challenges affecting our communities.

Oct 12 • 6:08 AM EDT • Health • bradenton.com

Lee Health: Understanding our community’s health needs

Lee Health’s mission is to be a trusted partner, empowering healthier lives through care and compassion. This mission inspires me.

Oct 12 • 6:08 AM EDT • Health • naplesnews.com

In Texas, Talarico Inspires a Recurring Blue-Tinted Dream

After a dry spell of more than three decades, Democrats are daring (yet again) to believe they can win one or more top-of-the-ballot races in a vast and stubbornly red state.

Oct 3 • 5:45 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

12 Inspires: World War II veteran still volunteers at Atrium Health at 100 years old

Jack Jerome, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, has volunteered over 12,000 hours at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since 1990, assisting patients and families.

Sep 16 • 10:40 PM EDT • Health • wxii12.com

Beloved campus cat Cheeto inspires $15,000 fundraiser after health scare

Sep 14 • 12:42 AM EDT • Health • abc10.com

‘Just Beej It’: Bijan Robinson Inspires Falcons With Fun Phrase

Bijan Robinson is the answer.That’s what the Atlanta Falcons have learned since the superstar running back arrived in the NFL.When things are uncertain, go to Bijan.When you need a big play, go to Bijan.When it’s time to put a game away, go to Bijan.Robinson is the answer to the Falcons’ problems and the solution to […] The post ‘Just Beej It’: Bijan Robinson Inspires Falcons With Fun Phrase appeared first on HEAVY.

Sep 11 • 2:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Tommy Edman’s Hot Streak Inspires Dodgers Amid Shohei Ohtani Absence

Los Angeles Dodgers utility man Tommy Edman hasn't missed a beat since taking over the leadoff spot during Shohei Ohtani's absence.

Sep 6 • 5:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Trails over textbooks

UD initiative inspires environmental lessons to take high schoolers beyond the classroom

Sep 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • udel.edu

5 for Good: Science Club for Girls inspires next generation of STEM leaders

Some 300 volunteer mentors are at the heart of the nonprofit's mission.

Sep 3 • 6:09 PM EDT • Science • wcvb.com

UI Health Sciences building inspires collaboration

Realizing a vision planted with a ceremonial shovel three years ago, hundreds of University of Iowa officials, faculty, staff, and students on Wednesday dedicated a new $250 million Health Sciences Academic Building completed over the summer.

Sep 2 • 7:40 PM EDT • Science • thegazette.com

UI Health Sciences building inspires collaboration

Realizing a vision planted with a ceremonial shovel three years ago, hundreds of University of Iowa officials, faculty, staff, and students on Wednesday dedicated a new $250 million Health Sciences Academic Building completed over the summer.

Sep 2 • 7:40 PM EDT • Health • thegazette.com

Purdue Science Olympiad inspires future scientists through annual invitational

Purdue Science Olympiad spends all year planning one of the state’s largest invitationals for middle and high school students. Members of the club help inspire future generations of scientists.

Sep 1 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • purdueexponent.org

Ben Schooler on His Path, Bringing Science Full Circle

Ben Schooler’s career reflects a deep respect for science, connection and the patients BioMarin serves. Learn more about what inspires his work.

Aug 25 • 4:03 PM EDT • Science • biomarin.com

‘Learning to Fly’ inspires and highlights ultra athletes

“Learning to Fly” is now playing in theaters.

Aug 21 • 7:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumlocalnews.com

Professional tools, real-world science: Bug Camp inspires future STEM leaders

Defense Health Agency-Public Health hosted its second annual Bug Camp, held from June 29 to July 2, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Aug 20 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • army.mil

Professional tools, real-world science: Bug Camp inspires future STEM leaders

Defense Health Agency-Public Health hosted its second annual Bug Camp, held from June 29 to July 2, at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. This science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, program is supported by the Army STEM Education Consortium. The camp puts high-tech tools in the hands of local students from Maryland and Pennsylvania. By studying how U.S. military scientists defend against insect-borne diseases, these young researchers get a first-hand look at military public health.

Aug 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • dvidshub.net

Rayville STEM Fair Inspires Local Youth with Hands-On Science and Math

Local children and families gather at the Rayville Civic Center for a hands-on learning event hosted by STEM Global Action, aimed at equipping youth with critical science and math skills for future careers.

Aug 15 • 6:48 PM EDT • Science • knoe.com

Girls in Ocean Science Inspires New Wave of Ocean Stewards

The Girls in Ocean Science Conference will be Sept. 26-27 at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum’s

Aug 8 • 8:03 PM EDT • Science • noozhawk.com

JD Vance praises Sophie Cunningham for 'Save Women's Sports' activism

JD Vance calls Sophie Cunningham's women's sports stance courageous, saying she inspires others as rallies continue at Indiana Fever WNBA games.

Aug 6 • 10:05 AM EDT • Sports • foxnews.com

Women in Business luncheon inspires Clarksville professionals to be bold, beautiful, balanced

Angela S. Martin’s message on confidence, authenticity and balance highlighted the Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce Women in Business luncheon.

Aug 5 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • clarksvillenow.com

‘Fluff Piece’: Sylvia Brindis (Creator/Star) on Making Entertainment that Inspires Kindness and Develops Critical Thinking in Young Viewers

We recently sat down with Stan Jantz to chat about The Chosen, the Come and See foundation, and an ambitious mission to translate the series into 600 languages and share the authentic Jesus with 1 billion people around the globe.

Jul 31 • 9:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • thecollision.org

Health Professions Camp Inspires Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals

Campers learned about high-demand professions while gaining hands-on exposure to the collaborative nature of patient care.

Jul 23 • 3:30 AM EDT • Health • news.utoledo.edu

STC Biology faculty member inspires students to see science beyond the classroom

For South Texas College STC Biology faculty member Xiomara Galvan Garcia, science isn’t just a subject to memorize, but a way of understanding the world.

Jul 15 • 3:47 PM EDT • Science • news.southtexascollege.edu

August's solar eclipse inspires science involving jets, balloons and Einstein’s general theory of relativity

Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere

Jul 15 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • scientificamerican.com

Wright State inspires the next generation of business leaders through Ohio Business Week

More than 50 high school students from across Ohio learned how to turn business ideas into reality during the Ohio Business Week camp at Wright State. Continue reading →

Jul 7 • 10:25 AM EDT • Business • webapp2.wright.edu

Taylor Swift was a big part of their weddings. Now, fans are celebrating hers.

Swift's wedding inspires fans to reflect on how her music shaped their own weddings, proposals and love stories over the years.

Jul 2 • 11:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

“Minions & Monsters” inspires Olivia Rodrigo, Queen, Jackson 5 covers in 'Minionese' singing competition

"Minions & Monsters" premieres on July 1.

Jun 30 • 1:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Copp inspires, connects with high-achieving athletes at 2025-26 Detroit High School Sports Awards

Last Wednesday, Red Wings forward served as special guest and participated in Q&A at MotorCity Casino Hotel

Jun 29 • 1:07 PM EDT • Sports • nhl.com

How Argonne’s John Domyancich is creating pathways to science, technology, engineering and math careers

STEM Learning Pathways Manager John Domyancich inspires the next generation of scientists through hands-on learning experiences at Argonne National Laboratory.

Jun 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • anl.gov

Fumito Ueda, legendary developer behind Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, announces single-player epic Gen Atlas for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC

"We hope to share an experience that inspires moments of quiet wonder and discovery.”

Jun 5 • 5:18 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

STEM-a-Palooza inspires Cobb County educators with hands-on science

Jun 4 • 5:51 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

OneCornell Health Educators Conference Inspires Teaching Excellence Across Disciplines

More than 150 educators gathered in person and virtually May 16-17 at Weill Cornell Medicine for the OneCornell Health Educators Conference.

May 21 • 1:39 PM EDT • Health • news.weill.cornell.edu

OneCornell health educators conference inspires teaching excellence across disciplines

More than 150 educators gathered in-person and virtually May 16-17 at Weill Cornell Medicine for the OneCornell Health Educators Conference.

May 21 • 1:18 PM EDT • Health • news.cornell.edu

The Battery Atlanta inspires SEC programs to create entertainment districts

In this NIL age of college sports, The Battery Atlanta is a model of a revenue stream that also benefits the community.

May 15 • 2:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • ajc.com

Suicide survivor inspires hope during Mental Health Awareness Month

A Chicagoan is sharing her story of survival to remind others healing is possible during Mental Health Awareness Month.

May 11 • 4:17 PM EDT • Health • nbcchicago.com

How, where to bet on the Kentucky Derby 2026: See $1,000 in bonuses for TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing, DK Horse

Kentucky Derby betting is in full swing. See exclusive Kentucky Derby promo codes for sites like TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing and 1/ST BET

May 2 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

How, where to bet on the Kentucky Derby 2026: Get $1,000 in bonuses for TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing, DK Horse

Kentucky Derby betting is in full swing. See exclusive Kentucky Derby promo codes for sites like TwinSpires, FanDuel Racing and 1/ST BET

May 2 • 8:53 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Fourth annual MI Healthy Climate Conference celebrates and inspires

EGLE’s Office of Climate and Energy welcomed hundreds to Detroit with an action-focused agenda.

Apr 27 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • michigan.gov

2. Bundesliga: Bobzien inspires Dresden to big win over Bochum

Bochum created a decent chance right from kickoff, but they went down from the hosts' first real goalscoring opportunity. Vincent Vermeij couldn’t reach Ben Bobzien’s delivery, but Jason Ceka slid...

Apr 18 • 9:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘Indiana Jones Of Paleontology’ To Open Science Center For Teens In Washington Park

University of Chicago professor Paul Sereno hopes his space, Scitopia Chicago, inspires the next generation of scientists.

Apr 15 • 10:45 AM EDT • Science • blockclubchicago.org

Students 2 Science Names New Trustees to the Board

Students 2 Science (S2S), a New Jersey-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that inspires and empowers students with transformative STEM opportunities, is pleased to welcome three new members to its Board of Trustees.

Apr 10 • 10:01 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com

Students 2 Science Names New Trustees to the Board

/PRNewswire/ -- Students 2 Science (S2S), a New Jersey-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that inspires and empowers students with transformative STEM...

Apr 10 • 10:01 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com

‘Future of America:’ Science students awarded for moon projects at Kennedy Space Center

As the record-breaking Artemis II mission inspires millions around the world, some of Central Florida’s little space enthusiasts are getting some well-deserved recognition too.

Apr 9 • 3:41 PM EDT • Science • clickorlando.com

Social Science Has a Replication Problem

And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if it inspires self-correction.

Apr 7 • 6:15 AM EDT • Science • wsj.com

Rewards before awards: The benefits of science competitions

Orlando Science Center inspires students from kindergarten to 12th grade to pursue STEM careers with a variety of science competitions. Young people grow stronger in critical thinking, problem-solving, public speaking, organization and time management skills, among others, when they participate. OSC science competitions help students develop these essential life skills that allow them to be

Apr 4 • 4:57 PM EDT • Science • yourcommunitypaper.com

Parker Roberts inspires Sporting Jax women's soccer with ACL recovery

In fewer than seven months, Sporting Jax women's soccer midfielder Parker Roberts has fought through a torn ACL to return to action.

Apr 4 • 5:01 AM EDT • Sports • jacksonville.com

AI maps science papers to predict research trends two to three years ahead

The number of scientific papers is growing so rapidly that scientists are no longer able to keep track of all of them, even in their own research area. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ...

Apr 1 • 3:20 PM EDT • Science • techxplore.com

NASA Data Hackathon Inspires Community Action

On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida’s (UF) Marston Science Library for the

Mar 23 • 5:30 PM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov

Utica University Science Fair Inspires Young Scientists

Young scientists from local middle and high schools gathered for the 47th annual Utica University Regional Science Fair.

Mar 21 • 8:30 PM EDT • Science • wktv.com

25 Years of Courage and Curiosity: Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies

Celebrating 25 years, Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego inspires students, educators, and families with hands-on STEAM programs that spark curiosity and confidence.

Mar 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • today.ucsd.edu

WSU inspires native youth to see themselves in health careers

Little Birds program introduces elementary schoolers to healthcare fields to encourage early interest in becoming doctors, nurses and pharmacists.

Mar 11 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • news.wsu.edu

Community science inspires curiosity, inclusion, and discovery

The Yale School of Public Health collaborated with Celentano Biotech, Health and Medical Magnet School, and New Haven Public Schools, to create The Tree of

Mar 5 • 12:00 AM EST • Science • ysph.yale.edu

Wenatchee entrepreneur turns junk removal into growing NCW business

Springtime often inspires people to clean out garages and sheds and restore their homes’ environments. Hauling unwanted items, or “junk,” is one way to achieve that.

Mar 1 • 3:00 AM EST • Business • wenatcheeworld.com

Phonak ambassadors spotlight hearing health for the next generation on World Hearing Day

STÄFA, Switzerland, Feb. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Phonak, a global leader in innovative hearing solutions, will mark World Hearing Day on March 3 with a global campaign across three continents, putting youth hearing health at the center of the conversation. Together, with its three international ambassadors, Phonak inspires children and teens to protect their hearing, understand the risks of hearing loss, and feel confident to dream big with the support of modern hearing technology. Accordin

Feb 26 • 1:05 AM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Public Health Command Europe Entomology Team Inspires Young Learners at Ramstein Elementary School

RAMSTEIN, Germany — More than 400 students at Ramstein Elementary School recently received a hands-on lesson in science thanks to volunteers from Public Health Command Europe.

Feb 9 • 4:46 AM EST • Health • dvidshub.net

Shadowing program inspires future health care professionals

ECU Health’s shadowing program is shaping the next generation of caregivers.

Jan 28 • 10:17 AM EST • Health • ecuhealth.org

Doncic inspires Lakers to beat former side Dallas

Luka Doncic stars for the Los Angeles Lakers with 33 points as he helps them beat his former side, the Dallas Mavericks 116-110.

Jan 25 • 3:59 AM EST • Sports • bbc.com

Passion for community service inspires Binghamton student to succeed in business

Binghamton University student Morgan Collett-O’Brien joined the School of Management to discover how her passion for community service could help her succeed in business.

Jan 21 • 7:00 PM EST • Business • binghamton.edu

Geisinger’s annual AiM HI event inspires future health care professionals

Geisinger’s annual AiM HI event inspires future health care professionals

Jan 19 • 12:00 AM EST • Health • geisinger.org

How did Branson, Missouri, become America's capital for conservative entertainment?

A new book explores the cultural impact of Branson, Missouri, a tourist town that inspires devotion and disdain in equal measure. Long known for wholesome, family-friendly entertainment, the Midwestern destination has become a stage that showcases today’s cultural and political divides.

Jan 8 • 12:00 AM EST • Entertainment • kcur.org

Snakes' mind-bending 'heat vision' inspires scientists to build a 4K imaging system that could one day fit into your smartphone

The human eye can only detect wavelengths in the visible light range, but a new imaging system will let us "see" infrared radiation using smartphones.

Dec 17, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Science • livescience.com

Science N Girls inspires young women to pursue science careers

MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Science N Girls is a program that is hosted by both the Sibley Nature Center and Coterra, where local scientists share their experiences in their respective field…

Dec 2, 2025 • 11:36 PM EST • Science • yourbasin.com

‘The tools to imagine solutions’: Science educator inspires Pakistani children

Science Fuse, a social enterprise, primarily teaches children in impoverished areas, including the Machar Colony slum area in Karachi.

Dec 1, 2025 • 10:31 AM EST • Science • csmonitor.com