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Engineering and Computer Science Professor Kevin Du Trains the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts
As an engineer, Kevin Du has always embraced a problem-solving attitude. In his world, if no solution exists for the dilemma he鈥檚 facing, he will create the solution. It鈥檚 a mentality that has served Du, an electrical engineering and computer…
The Rise of Misinformation and AI: Developing Tools to Detect What鈥檚 Real and the Impact on Upcoming Elections (Podcast)
With the increase of misinformation and disinformation on the internet and social media, our brains struggle to process what we’re seeing and whether an image, a video clip or a story is real or not. Faculty members Jenny Stromer-Galley and…
Can Folic Acid Supplementation During Pregnancy Help Prevent Autism and Schizophrenia?
The neocortex, or 鈥渢hinking brain,鈥 accounts for over 75% of the brain鈥檚 total volume and plays a critical role in humans鈥 decision-making, processing of sensory information, and formation and retrieval of memories. Uniquely human traits such as advanced social behavior…
The Building Blocks of Future Smart Materials
How do cells take the shape they do and perform their functions? The enzymes and molecules that make them up are not themselves living鈥攁nd yet they are able to adapt to their environment and circumstances, come together and interact, and…
Federal Reserve Residency to Enhance Maxwell Professor鈥檚 Research on Invisible Labor, Gender Wage Gap
There was a meta moment for Kristy Buzard, associate professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, that exemplifies the discrepancy in the mental and economic burdens that women carry compared to their men counterparts in…
Public Health Professor David Larsen Invited to White House to Discuss Wastewater Surveillance
It鈥檚 not easy to condense about four years of research into two minutes, but that鈥檚 exactly what 黑料不打烊 Public Health Professor David Larsen did during a visit to the White House on Aug. 27. Larsen, Chair of the Department…
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…
New Research Published on Disability and Mortality Disparity
Earlier this month, Associate Professor of Sociology Scott Landes published a new study entitled 鈥淒isability Mortality Disparity: Risk Of Mortality For Disabled Adults Nearly Twice That For Nondisabled Adults, 2008鈥19鈥 in the聽August edition of Health Affairs journal. The report is…
Scientists Spin Up a New Way to Unlock Black Hole Mysteries
Black holes are among the most studied but least understood cosmic phenomena for astrophysicists. While not technically a “hole,” these objects derive their name from the fact that nothing, including light, can escape the grasp of their immense gravitational field….
Physicist Awarded NASA Grant to Model One of the Cosmos鈥 Most Extreme Events
Eric Coughlin, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently awarded a grant from NASA for his project entitled, 鈥淓xtragalactic Outbursts and Repeating Nuclear Flares From Tidal Disruption Events.鈥 The three-year, $346,000 award will support his…