Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Receives Gift
The $125,000 gift from the Board of the Feminist Scholarship Fund, Inc. will support educational and research opportunities for WGSS °®åú´«Ã½ and faculty.
Study Shows Alarming Number of Teens Cyberbully Themselves
A new form of self-harm in youth has emerged and is cause for concern. "Digital self-harm," where adolescents post, send or share mean things about themselves anonymously online, could be a cry for help.
°®åú´«Ã½ Contributes to Groundbreaking Discovery
Methods developed by °®åú´«Ã½'s numerical relativity group contributed to a recent groundbreaking discovery of merging neutron stars.
Being Behind the Curve Can 'Sting'
°®åú´«Ã½ research shows what a tiny ant and indigenous cultures can teach medical and scientific communities by solving a medical mystery that has puzzled them for decades.
Study Reveals if a Child Survives or Thrives When Bullied
Why are some children devastated by bullying while others are not? A new study validates how "resilience" differentiates children who just survive bullying from those who thrive when faced with adversity.
Size Doesn't Matter - At Least for Hammerheads and Swimming
Researchers from °®åú´«Ã½ have conducted the first study to examine the whole body shape and swimming kinematics of two closely related yet very different hammerhead sharks, with some unexpected results.
Young-onset Dementia Costs Nearly Twice That of Alzheimer's
The first economic study on frontotemporal degeneration (FTD), the most common dementia for people under age 60, shows that FTD inflicts a much more severe burden on families than Alzheimer's disease.
New Way to Assess Safety of Aging Timber Railroad Bridges
In the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Harvey, researchers from °®åú´«Ã½'s College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed a cutting-edge way to gauge the condition of aging timber railroad bridges.
'Out-of-the-box' Thinking May Build a Better Brain
The "Dementia Prevention Initiative" abandons generalized methods used to research and treat Alzheimer's disease. The secret weapon: a novel "N-of-1 design" that personalizes medicine down to a single patient.
NIH Grant to Further Neuropsychiatric Disorders Research
A $2.3 million National Institutes of Health grant will help °®åú´«Ã½ neuroscientists to continue research to better understand and treat several neuropsychiatric disorders including depression and autism.