NeuroID, a technology firm founded in 2015 at the University of Arizona with the support of Tech Launch Arizona, has been acquired by global credit firm Experian. NeuroID's unique anti-fraud technology will positively impact Experian, allowing the firm to further mitigate fraud risk and better serve its clients. NeuroID was founded in 2015 by Eller College of Management professor of management information systems and Muzzy Endowed Chair Joe Valacich and Jeff Jenkins, a then-Ph.D. student at Eller who is now a professor of information systems at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business.
On April 5, the Thomas E. Cone Sr. Center for Entrepreneurship hosted Belmont’s Entrepreneurship Village, an annual showcase that highlights businesses created by students, alumni and faculty. An array of featured businesses set up shop under tents in front of Freedom Plaza where campus passersby could purchase products, talk to founders and learn about the mission and passions of each participating business.
Each November, we celebrate National Adoption Month—a time to raise awareness, honor adoptive families, and most importantly, recognize the children who are still waiting for their forever homes. As the Program Coordinator for Adoption Support for Kentucky (ASK), I have the privilege of working with foster and adoptive families across the Commonwealth, witnessing their joys, challenges, and extraordinary resilience. This month, I invite you to join us in celebrating adoption while recognizing the essential need for ongoing support and understanding for families as they navigate this life-changing
Each November, we celebrate National Adoption Month—a time to raise awareness, honor adoptive families, and most importantly, recognize the children who are still waiting for their forever homes. As the Program Coordinator for Adoption Support for Kentucky (ASK), I have the privilege of working with foster and adoptive families across the Commonwealth, witnessing their joys, challenges, and extraordinary resilience. This month, I invite you to join us in celebrating adoption while recognizing the essential need for ongoing support and understanding for families as they navigate this life-changing
In Summer 2021, he was taking three intensive classes while studying computer information systems at Colorado State University Pueblo. He was working 40 hours a week with two jobs, at a golf course and in an office on campus. The oldest of six siblings, Vido needed the jobs to help his family pay bills and buy groceries.
At it's last general meeting of the year on Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Wayne State University Board of Governors unanimously approved an exciting new academic initiative. The doctorate in integrative neuroscience program – also known as INSPIRE – will launch in fall 2025 and will be located in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Designed to tackle some of today's most pressing challenges in neuroscience, INSPIRE represents a bold, interdisciplinary approach to education and research, combining expertise from biology, psychology, engineering and other disciplines.
Each year the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (or IEEE) confers the grade of Fellow to one-tenth of one percent of the organization’s 460,000 members. The grade of Fellow is conferred on IEEE members with extraordinary records of accomplishments in the technical fields. A Utah State University professor since 2012, Regan Zane, is among the newly-elected IEEE Fellows. It is the highest grade of IEEE membership and an important career achievement. He is a member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and is one of seven members of that group elevated to Fellow.
Yaryna Andrushko, a clinical psychologist in her native Ukraine, was displaced by war in her home country in October 2022. Having never been on a plane before and despite not knowing anyone in town, she moved sight-unseen to State College. Since that time, she has worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Penn State Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (PRC) where she studies resilience.