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The now-highly polluted Salton Sea, in California, could become the "Saudi Arabia of lithium," experts say due to its high concentration of the metal. Global demand for lithium batteries is set to jump five-fold by 2030, and the world could...

The establishment of the Nikos Kazantzakis Visiting Scholar Program at the University of California, Berkeley was recently jointly announced by the Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program and The Modern Greek Studies Foundation. The program is made possible by a...

Prominent Greek-American chemist and University of Chicago alumnus Paul Alivisatos was named the 14th president of the University of Chicago.

Greek-American Eleni Kounalakis is one of the two candidates remaining in the race to become the next lieutenant governor of California. Ed Hernandez, a fellow Democrat, is the other candidate remaining from an initial group of 11 runners. Kounalakis secured first place...

The University of California, Berkeley was forced on Wednesday to cancel a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the editor of the far-right website “Breitbart News,” after what started as a peaceful demonstration and escalated into violence on the University...

The Hellenic Student Association at Berkeley (HESTIA)  in collaboration with the Hellenic Business Network (HBN) and the support of the National Hellenic Student Association (NHSA), organized the HBN Entrepreneurship Symposium.  It will take place on December 4th at the...

The PanHellenic Scholarship Foundation transformed its annual Gala into a virtual gathering on June 13 this year to celebrate the awarding of forty scholarships to students of Hellenic descent. The event, streamed live on YouTube and Facebook, included videos from...

The White House has announced that Paul Alivisatos, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), award-winning chemist and internationally recognized authority on the fabrication of nanocrystals and their use in solar energy applications, has won the National...

Several significant Greek landmarks in the USA reflect the country's rich Greek heritage. These landmarks symbolize the Greek culture and have become important community centers for Greek Americans across the United States, preserving their traditions, history, and architecture. Some of the...

Two Greek computer scientists at Columbia University received the John von Neumann Theory Prize for their research in computational complexity theory. Professors Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis the Prize for their research in computational complexity theory that explores the boundaries...

First generation Greek American Stephan Pastis was once a high-powered lawyer in San Francisco before he chucked it all to become an author and one of the United State's foremost comic strip artists. Now, with his "Pearls Before Swine" syndicated...

New models suggest that the milder but more infectious omicron variant will cause 50,000 to 300,000 deaths in the United States before March. Although many studies show that Omicron causes less severe disease than past variants of Covid, the sheer...

Confirming a widely-held understanding of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a new South African study released on Friday confirmed that the mutation caused less severe illness and leads to fewer hospitalizations and deaths than any previous variants. The study,...

The Apple corporation announced on Thursday that it will begin scanning iPhones in the United States for images of child sexual abuse.

American historian and academic Katherine Elizabeth Fleming became an Honorary Greek Citizen in 2016 for her contributions to Greek culture.