Research & Discovery Archive

A research team co-led by the medical school’s Dr. Anthony Atala has demonstrated for the first time that stem cells found in amniotic fluid may be more useful than scientists originally thought.

The Facebook term “unfriend” is the 2009 Word of the Year. Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, discusses how technology influences language and social interaction.

Images of the American soldier — captured by photographers on battlefields from the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan — have changed over time, according to professor David Lubin, who is writing a book on the imagery of World War I.

Junior Katherine Morgan used a Richter Scholarship to study the lesser-known works of composer Arthur Sullivan in London and New York last summer.

Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a co-researcher have received a major federal grant to study why the quality of stored blood degrades over time and to investigate ways to make transfusions using older blood safer.

Seasonal local factors and long-term global trends are causing a shortage of honey that has beekeepers, farmers and scientists worried, says Reynolds Professor Susan Fahrbach.

Immigration reform will likely be the next contentious political issue, according to professors David Coates and Peter Siavelis, authors of “Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know.”