Escondido, California - A brief ceremony will take place Friday morning, May 25, to signify the official opening of Walkabout Australia at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The ceremony will include remarks by Lisa Peterson, director, San Diego Zoo Safari Park; and Rick Schwartz, San Diego Zoo Global ambassador.

West Lafayette, Indiana - Purdue researchers have discovered a new two-dimensional material, derived from the rare element tellurium, to make transistors that carry a current better throughout a computer chip.

Washington, DC - "Community banks are the backbone of small business in America. We are going to preserve our community banks." ~ President Donald J. Trump

New Orleans, Louisiana - Considering the complexity of the global food system, it is easy to forget how much this system depends on the contributions of one group: bees. Close to 75 percent of the crops that humans grow for food must be pollinated in order for the plant to produce fruit—and bees are one of the most common pollinators in the world.

Washington, DC - Wednesday the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Center for Open Data Enterprise co-hosted a roundtable on Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset, a new Cross-Agency Priority (CAP)in the President’s Management Agenda (PMA). This CAP goal is co-led by leaders at OMB, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of Commerce, and the Small Business Administration.

Washington, DC - Today, the Energy Department is announcing that The Ohio State has taken home first place in the final year of EcoCAR 3, an Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors Co. This is the fourth consecutive win for the Buckeyes.