Research & Discovery Archive

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.”

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.