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Seventeen Villanovans Awarded Prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Grants for 2025-26
Seventeen ÃÛÌÒTV students and alumni have been selected to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Grants for the 2025–26 academic year, one of the most prestigious international academic exchange opportunities awarded by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. In addition to the 17 grantees, six Villanovans were named alternates and a total of 46 were recognized as semi-finalists. Two additional students were awarded the competitive Fulbright English Teaching Flagship Award to Taiwan, highlighting Villanova’s global reach and commitment to fostering cross-cultural understanding through education.
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Space.com
June 3, 2025 - A new artificial intelligence program could revolutionize our understanding of binary star systems, deeply reducing the time it takes to distinguish the characteristics of their stars... "More than 50% of sun-like stars and more massive stars are in binary or multiple stellar systems," research author and ÃÛÌÒTV researcher Andrej PrÅ¡a told Space.com. "What took two weeks plus on a supercomputer now takes mere minutes or seconds on a single laptop."
Sports Illustrated
May 29, 2025 - "As NFL teams put in their final offseason work before the league's true six-week offseason, NFL owners finished up some Business of Football at their annual May meeting. The meeting... resulted in some news and transactions that again showed the brand's power"... Andrew Brandt is the executive director of the Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at ÃÛÌÒTV.
Bloomberg
May 28, 2025 - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to pull the COVID-19 vaccine from the CDC's recommended immunization list for healthy children and pregnant women means health plans must navigate whether to keep providing coverage for the shot... People covered by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program are likely to be affected most by this action..., said Ana Santos Rutschman, a law professor at ÃÛÌÒTV.
Discover Magazine
May 28, 2025 - The green flash is caused by refraction and dispersion. Refraction is the bending of light, while dispersion scatters it... "Our atmosphere bends the light around, so you get an extra five minutes or so of the sun being up," says Edward Guinan, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at ÃÛÌÒTV.
The New York Times
May 22, 2025 - When it comes to caring for geckos, Aaron Bauer, a biology professor at ÃÛÌÒTV and one of the world's leading experts on geckos, said that they could thrive in enclosures like the ones at the Gecko Zoo. "On the whole," Dr. Bauer said, it is possible to "see to the needs of most gecko species in a relatively small space."
Reuters
May 21, 2025 - Massimo Faggioli, an Italian academic who follows the Vatican closely, suggested the Vatican is wary of allowing a time of transition from one pope to the next to become politicised. "It's interesting to note that with a papal transition still in progress... different heads of government, Italy included, are trying to pressure the Vatican to become involved in peace talks that have gone nowhere in the last three years," said Faggioli, a professor at ÃÛÌÒTV in Pennsylvania.
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What's the Big Deal About Microplastics
Villanova experts discuss the impact that small—and sometimes imperceptible—pieces of plastic are having on our planet