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Memory Is All in the Wrinkles. Or Is It?
That many animals have naturally wrinkle-free brains but are still able to learn complex tasks suggests wrinkles aren’t all there is to intelligence.
School Food Policy and Its Impact on Childhood Obesity
Professor Amy Schwartz has for many years studied the school lives of New York City children, looking at educational inequalities and school finance. Much of the work focused on looking at test score results but more recently Schwartz wanted to look at a broader picture of student success.
Keck Leads NSF-Funded Study of Global Free Speech
Thomas M. Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics at the Maxwell School, will spend the next three years studying who benefits from court decisions enforcing constitutional free speech norms around the globe. Over the summer, Keck…
Whitman School Launches Research Website
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management recently launched a website featuring faculty research on a variety of business topics. The site is a repository where users can access research translations/briefs and full papers from Whitman School faculty. The site…
In Defense of Online Medical Records
Sharing sensitive information online has become commonplace. Having easy access to important info, such as financial information, provides people with unprecedented convenience. Unfortunately, it also introduces the risk of private data falling into the wrong hands. Credit cards and account…
Philosopher Publishes Book on Jürgen Habermas
Kenneth Baynes, professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the author of “Habermas” (Routledge, 2015), a new book on the life and work of Jürgen Habermas, one of the world’s leading philosophers and sociologists. Baynes, also…
Plants Cope with Climate Change at the Gene Level
Climate change can influence everything from pine beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains to rising sea levels in Papua New Guinea. In the face of a rapidly changing earth, plants and animals are forced to quickly deal with new challenges…
Engineering Cities to Survive Extreme Weather
Extreme weather events can cripple crucial infrastructure that enables transit, electricity, water and other services in urban areas. This leaves cities and their inhabitants cut off and in danger. With weather extremes becoming more common—from devastating hurricanes and flooding to…
University Research Community Invited to Computing Colloquies
The diverse array of campus computing resources available to the University’s researchers was created to take on new and greater computational tasks, enhance research productivity, increase the competitiveness of grant submissions and advance scientific discovery across many disciplines. Information Technology…
Physicist Scores Back-to-Back Articles in Top Journals
A physicist in the College of Arts and Sciences has published back-to-back articles in two of the field’s most prestigious journals. Associate Professor M. Lisa Manning is the co-author of recent articles in Nature Physics and Nature Materials. Both pieces…