Division of Natural Sciences
- In studying dinosaur discards, É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ scientist Karen Chin has gained expertise recently honored with the Bromery Award and detailed in a new children’s book.
- Gary Wall, a 1970 É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ physics graduate, won the Los Alamos Medal in recognition of more than 50 years of distinguished work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- New É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ research demonstrates that, with practice, older adults can regain manual dexterity that may have seemed lost.
- Richard Jessor, É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on the 79th anniversary of the battle.
- É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ PhD student Mikayla Huffman joins ‘The Ampersand’ podcast for a discussion about identity and discovery.
- Recent research by É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ geographer Emily Yeh studies the difference between consent and coercion in ‘voluntary’ resettlement of pastoralists in Tibet’s Nagchu region.
- É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥â€™s Bortz group, in applied math, wins $1.88 million National Institutes of Health grant to study methods for learning models directly from noisy data.
- Newly published É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ research reveals previously unknown qualities of a gene vital to a cell’s mitochondrial structure and function.
- É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ researchers Daniel Craighead, Douglas Seals and their team are studying the effects of a specialized breathing exercise on older adults’ blood pressure, brain health, cognition and fitness.
- É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ researcher Aaron Whiteley is recognized by the American Society for Microbiology for his work exploring bacterial immune responses and how it translates to the human immune system.