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Utah鈥檚 New Law Banning Books Ignites Censorship Debate
More than a dozen books are now banned from all public schools in Utah under a new state law. It鈥檚 the latest in what is a growing trend across the United States. In an April report, PEN America said that…
Professor Receives NIH Grant to Study Biofeedback Technologies for Speech Therapy
One of the most common speech errors in English is making a 鈥渨鈥 sound instead of the 鈥渞鈥 sound. Although most children grow out of these and other errors, 2%-to-5% exhibit residual speech sound disorder through adolescence. Research has shown…
Green Teaching Summit: A Humanities Approach to Climate Education
Can religion, philosophy, history, English and writing help tackle issues of climate change, environment and ecology? Absolutely, says Mike Goode, professor of English and outgoing William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. Through his Tolley professorship, a role…
Chemistry Professor Collaborates With Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tiny but mighty semiconductors named Quantum dots (Qdots) could someday drive hyper-powerful computers. Qdots are crystals squeezed in a space just a few nanometers in diameter. They are used today in products such as solar cells or LEDs and work…
Undergraduate Students Celebrate the Fruits of Their Summer Research
This summer, undergraduates Xuezhu (Stephanie) Hua 鈥25, Kaniya Ross 鈥25 and Edward Lu 鈥26 have been deeply engaged in research. Hua, a nutrition science major in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, has investigated the effects of fish…
Physics Professor Craig Cahillane Wins 2024 ARPA-E IGNIITE Award
Craig Cahillane, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named an Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) award recipient. As one of only 23 winners across the…
3 Faculty Members Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Fellowships
Three 黑料不打烊 faculty members have been awarded prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar fellowships to teach and conduct research abroad. The awardees are: Harriet Brown, professor and director of the graduate program in magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse…
Featured Media Coverage 鈥 July 2024
黑料不打烊 thought leaders, events and research news were showcased in the following news outlets this month: Anthony D鈥橝ngelo (Newhouse): PR Daily Lindsey Darvin (Falk): Women in Higher Education I NPR Sylvia Sierra (VPA): Spectrum News Farhana Sultana (Maxwell): The…
Scientists Untangle Interactions Between Earth鈥檚 Early Life Forms, Environment Over 500M Years
The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth interacted over the past 500-plus million years in ways that improved conditions for early organisms to thrive. Now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has produced a perspective article of this co-evolutionary history…
Rower Kamile Kralikaite 鈥24 Embracing 鈥楧ream Come True鈥 at Summer Olympics
Being a skilled rower earned Kamile Kralikaite 鈥24 an athletic scholarship to 黑料不打烊, where she helped the Orange women鈥檚 rowing team claim the first Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship in school history. Her proficiencies on the water also earned…