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NSF-supported BRIDGES Symposium on Bilingualism brought U.S. scholars and students to St. John’s May 7–8.
The two-day event was hosted in the D’Angelo Center Ballroom in Queens, drawing 150 attendees in person or online.
Keynote speakers challenged myths about bilingualism and discussed its teaching and development implications.
St. John’s Provost Simon G. Møller highlighted the university’s role in studying language, culture, and identity in Queens.
NSF support enabled travel stipends and recruitment of top-tier researchers across education, psychology, and communication.
Student researchers presented posters on topics like media consumption’s impact on bilingualism and metalinguistic awareness.
Participants discussed language development, mental health, and classroom teaching strategies in bilingual settings.
The event emphasized the intersection of language, tradition, culture, and identity in a diverse community.
The conference offered travel stipends to students to showcase their work to professionals.
NSF funding helped bring international and domestic researchers together to discuss bilingualism.

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Four researchers won the NCEMS data harmonization competition for machine learning–driven methods.
The competition was hosted on Kaggle to foster collaboration and innovation.
Winning teams built a hybrid tool to extract, reprocess, and harmonize data for accessibility.
The research aims to harmonize proteomics data and metadata for better reuse.
Over 5,000 submissions and 717 entrants participated in the competition.
First place awarded $5,000, second $3,000, and third $1,000.
Awardees include two individuals and a team of two from around the world.
NCEMS is NSF-supported and part of Penn State’s ICDS and Huck Institutes.
Researchers aim to enable hypothesis generation and new insights via harmonized data.
The study centers on spectrometry, proteomics data, and their metadata.

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Astronomers captured a dying binary star system in a vivid color image from Gemini North, revealing the Crystal Ball Nebula around NGC 1514.
NGC 1514’s glowing cloud forms as the star sheds outer layers late in its life, heating the gas to tens of thousands of degrees.
NOIRLab operates Gemini North, which last year observed the nebula before a color processing update last week.
The Crystal Ball Nebula is about 1,500 light-years away from Earth.
The nebula’s glow results from heating of the gas to tens of thousands of degrees by the exposed core.
The report notes the star system once contained stars larger than the sun and is near the end of its life.
The NOIRLab operates the Gemini North Telescope that produced the new image.
Researchers say the color image was completed recently, providing a fresh view of the nebula.
The story is reported by Marcia Dunn of the Associated Press for the Los Angeles Times.
The article mentions related science and environment items in the Times' latest sections.

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