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Stony Brook University Launches Quantum Institute

Stony Brook University Launches New Quantum Institute Stony Brook University is advancing its state and national leadership in quantum research and networking with the launch of a new Quantum Institute.

We are launching a new series - Griffiss Gazette - examining the structural challenges within defense innovation and the emerging solutions helping to shape its future.

Kicking things off:

𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝘀 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺
𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙮𝙯𝙢 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙁𝙞𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣

In a recent address, Secretary Pete Hegseth argued that the greatest threat to modernization is not foreign. It is internal bureaucracy.

Inside the defense ecosystem, that assessment is familiar. The greatest barriers to progress are rarely technical; they are procedural.

Startups do not stall because their technology fails. They stall because compliance layers, opaque acquisition pathways, and systems like SAM.gov consume time, capital, and momentum.

In this first piece, we explore how Pryzm, alongside ecosystem builders like Griffiss Institute, is working to reduce that friction and what it signals about the future of modernization.

Read the full article: https://www.griffissinstitute.org/news/modernization-is-a-process-problem/

Impact will likely be greatest in STEM areas where Texas leads currently such as health professions and advanced manufacturing/semiconductors.

Texas Halts Hiring of H-1B Workers at State Colleges, Agencies Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies and public universities to immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions, saying that taxpayer-funded jobs should go to Texans whenever possible.

As the Trump administration seeks to reshape US research and development, it has substantially scaled back and restricted what science the country pursues and the workforce that runs the federal scientific enterprise.

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India last year thanks to a boom in clean energy adoption.

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says

The Trump administration has implemented policy changes at both the NIH and NSF that will reduce long term investments across the disciplines of scientific research. The result has been fewer grants and shortened grant durations. In addition, support for early career scientists through graduate research fellowships has been cut by 30%.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

New vaccines could transform cancer treatment. There’s just one problem.

Cancer Vaccines Are Coming — If We Don’t Sabotage Them — Scientific American Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy As soon as Barbara Brigham’s cancerous pancreatic tumor was removed from her body in the fall of 2020, the ...

What James Watson got wrong about DNA

What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.

“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels.”

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe

Trump’s university backlash drives US researchers towards Europe EU grant applications hit record in 2025 amid surge in interest from American academics

SpaceX Launched the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first stage came back exactly as planned. Ship made it to orbit and worked smoothly. Payload doors opened and all Starlink simulators were deployed. When operational, each Starship launch will deploy an additional 60Tb of coverage to the orbital Starlink constellation – 20 times the amount of satellites that a Falcon 9 workhorse currently does. The upper stage then landed precisely on target in the Indian Ocean after doing some wild banking maneuvers on the way down.

- I did launch coverage on Bloomberg Radio audio: https://soundcloud.com/keith-cowing/nasawatch-on-bloomberg-starship-flight-11
- I was on Deutsche Welle TV to do landing coverage audio: https://soundcloud.com/keith-cowing/nasawatch-on-dw-starship-flight-11