November 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Presidential Scholar explores the works of composer Arthur Sullivan
Junior Katherine Morgan used a Richter Scholarship to study the lesser-known works of composer Arthur Sullivan in London and New York last summer. Categories: Research & Discovery
Improving banked blood
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.Categories: Research & Discovery
Nature’s ‘trick or treat’
In the ongoing evolutionary battle between bats and moths, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound to avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, according to new research.Categories: Mentorship, Research & Discovery
Shortage of honey drives prices higher
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.Categories: Research & Discovery
New book offers one-stop shop for immigration information
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.”Categories: Research & Discovery
October 2009 Faculty Focus
Categories: Research & Discovery
Ants vs. worms
Categories: Research & Discovery
New appointments
A number of administrative appointments were made over the summer, including most recently Ladd P. Flock, who was named director of Career Services.
Categories: Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Marketing vaccines
Three years after the FDA approved the drug Gardasil as a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), only one in four women have been vaccinated; assistant professor Michelle Steward may have found a reason why.Categories: Research & Discovery