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Psychologist to Study Smoking, Painkiller Misuse Among Older Adults with HIV, Chronic Pain
Joseph Ditre, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, is readying a significant study that may help older adults with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and chronic pain quit tobacco smoking and reduce their misuse of prescription…
Maxwell Student Learns from Nobel Laureates in Economics
Last month, 黑料不打烊 doctoral student Bin Peng got the chance to meet, and to learn from, some of the most brilliant minds in the field of economics. Peng, a student in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,…
Laboratories of Opportunity
Karin Ruhlandt takes a step forward, adjusts the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and peers at a small graph in the center of a large, white science poster. 鈥淭his is why we stay up five days in a…
Caicedo Receives Faculty Research Award from Google
With the rapid increase of wireless technology and services, more companies and devices are competing for a limited amount of available space across the wireless radio spectrum. This is an issue that School of Information Studies (iSchool) assistant professor Carlos…
Communication Sciences and Disorders鈥 Beth Prieve Awarded $1.4 Million Grant
The most common birth defect among newborn babies is hearing loss. In fact, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, more than 12,000 babies are born each year with some degree of hearing loss. But Beth Prieve, professor of communication sciences…
Beckman Scholars Making an Impact as Undergraduate Researchers
When Jennifer Lawson鈥檚 faculty lab mentor recommended she apply for the Beckman Scholars Program, she wasn鈥檛 so sure. It was a boost to her confidence鈥攁nd to her future鈥攚hen she was awarded the scholarship.
Physicists Explore Biomimetic Clocks
Working with a team of scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), Brandeis University, and Leiden University in the Netherlands, M. Cristina Marchetti and Mark Bowick, professors in the Soft Matter Program in the College of Arts and…
Biologist Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant
James Hewett, an associate professor of biology and neuroscientist, was recently awarded a $440,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Hewett will use this…
Physicist John Laiho Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
John 鈥淛ack鈥 Laiho recently completed his first year as a member of the 黑料不打烊 faculty, and what better way to celebrate than by receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support his cutting-edge research. Laiho, who earned a…
Sociologists Unveil Research at ASA Annual Meeting in California
More than a dozen professors in the Department of Sociology are presenting research at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in San Francisco. They join approximately 4,600 other presenters, including numerous 黑料不打烊 graduate students, for…