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Why does health misinformation spread faster than accurate content? Explore the structural, trust, and craft challenges facing public health communicators on social media.
Non-Profit & Social Impact
Connecting the Dots: How the Pet Sustainability Coalition Is Redefining Innovation
Pet industry leaders are rethinking sustainability through innovation. Allison Rezer of the Pet Sustainability Coalition shares how collaboration and new approaches are helping the industry move beyond business as usual toward a more sustainable future for pets and the planet.
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Arts & Design
Designing Health Solutions with the People: A Path to Success
Community-Based Participatory Research reframes who holds authority in health design. Here's why top-down interventions keep failing and what genuine co-creation demands.
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Arts & Design
Our Top 10 Remarkable Challenges in 10 Years
The HeroX team is celebrating our 10 year anniversary! 10 years of incredible challenges, inspiring innovation, and enabling a global community of innovators to provide top notch solutions for our customer’s biggest challenges.
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Space
Beyond the Prize: NASA Program Alumni on What the MPLAN Award Unlocked
With the 2026 submission window closing soon, many Minority Serving Institutions are weighing whether to apply to MPLAN. The most useful perspective doesn’t come from the program description. It comes from those who have already gone through it.
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Technology
Cultivating Innovation in the High Desert: How Wyoming Is Rewriting the Startup Playbook
While venture capital often focuses on finding the next unicorn, Baylie Evans takes a different approach: cultivating entrepreneurs and strengthening local ecosystems to create lasting value in places where opportunity is less concentrated.
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Arts & Design
Dual-Use by Design: How University Labs Bridge the Gap Between NASA Missions and the Commercial Market
Federal research dollars increasingly carry a quiet expectation that what gets built for a space agency should also work for the rest of us. Most university teams aren't ready for that conversation.
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Arts & Design
The $50K Question: What Seed-Stage Funding Actually Buys in University Research
Small-dollar prizes and non-grant funding are quietly reshaping early-stage R&D, especially at institutions the traditional funding ecosystem largely ignores.
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