Spotlight

In addition to recently successfully defending his thesis, Kyle Brown, MS Chemistry student in the Xiaojun Ren laboratory, has already made great contributions to the epigenetic and chromatin field. In July, Kyle published two papers in high profile, high impact journals. He was the first author of a paper published...

Professor Weldon Lodwick, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, and CTT Professor of Physics Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi recently published, “ Analysis of COVID-19 pandemic in USA, using Topological Weighted Centroid ,” in Computers in Biology and Medicine . They analyzed COVID-19 outbreaks using data-driven intelligent geographical dynamical systems that models disease...

Leakey Foundation grantee Anna G. Warrener, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was recently featured on the Leaky Foundation Origin Stories podcast to discuss the “obstetrical dilemma.” A hypothesis that explains why babies are so helpless, and why childbirth is so difficult for humans compared to other animals, the obstetrical dilemma suggests...

Exposure to violence can have significant economic impacts through their effects of individual behavior. In this VoxDevTalk, Andrea Velásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics, discusses her recent work leveraging a unique set of data to explore how waves of rising violence in Mexico City affect men’s and women’s labor market outcomes...

Assistant Professor in Integrative Biology Greg Ragland recently received an NSF CAREER award. The grant, titled, “Beyond differential expression: quantifying transcriptional dynamics and testing for adaptive value of transcriptomic responses at low temperature,” will be a comparative physiology study of transcription temperature in flies from different regions. At present, the...

Gabby Mayne, graduate student in the Anthropology Department published in the online journal Aquifer her digital story After Birth . “After Birth” is a four-minute auto-ethnographic digital story of the birth of her second son. It details the emotional and spiritual struggles she experienced after his birth and ultimately how...

Audrey E. Hendricks, Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, along with 10 student authors published, “ Summix: A method for detecting and adjusting for population structure in genetic summary data ,” this month in the American Journal of Human Genetics . Many of these...

University Communications is hiring a professional photographer to take some photos on the first day of classes this fall. The team will be very grateful to any faculty member willing to let them in for a few minutes. Chancellor Marks is going to accompany the team to a few of...

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Founding Dean of CLAS, Daniel Fallon recently published a new book, Love's Legacy: Viscount Chateaubriand and the Irish Girl . This work of academic scholarship, told in first person as an investigative mystery, explores Chateaubriand's secret sponsorship of the author's great-great-grandfather, Thomas Fallon, to a...

Professor of Communication Stephen J. Hartnett just published a new book, A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War . The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife’s edge of war for more than seventy years...