Himalayas

New undergraduate certificate in Tibetan and Himalayan studies in works

Oct. 21, 2020

New grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow more offerings in Tibetan and Himalayan studies for students.

Eric Vance photo

Prof is spreading statistics labs through developing world

Oct. 20, 2020

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ’s LISA 2020 set out to foster 20 statistics labs in the developing world by 2020; the latest count is 28.

Community in uganda

Unselfish leadership key to tackling creeping environmental problems

Oct. 15, 2020

Voluntary leaders show a way out of the policy paradox surrounding issues like climate change, new ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ study finds.

Ed Chuong, an assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ,

Remnants of ancient viruses could be shaping coronavirus response, says new Packard Fellow

Oct. 15, 2020

Why are some people more resilient to viruses than others? The answer has eluded scientists for centuries and, in the age of COVID-19, has come to represent one of the holy grails of biomedical research.

Tweed River Valley

Tweed Valley a ‘natural laboratory’ to test carbon sequestration theory

Oct. 13, 2020

Olivine rock weathering would absorb small amounts of global CO2 pollution.

Theatre and dance building

¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ dance program lauded for diverse curriculum

Oct. 12, 2020

‘Systemic racism is a real problem in our country—and dance is uniquely positioned to help dismantle it,’ professor says.

Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, left with Jennifer Doudna at the Butcher Symposium on the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ campus in 2015. Doudna, who did postdoctoral research in the Cech lab, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Wednesday.

Former ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ postdoc Doudna smashes glass ceiling with historic Nobel win

Oct. 8, 2020

Thirty years after beginning her training as a postdoctoral scholar in the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ lab of Nobel laureate Thomas Cech, biochemist Jennifer Doudna on Wednesday won her own Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the co-development of the revolutionary genome editing tool CRISPR-Cas9

The town of Yanhuitlan with ancient mountaintop city of Cerro Jazmin in background (Oaxaca Highlands)

Scholars aim to unlock mystery of the Mesoamerican collapse

Oct. 5, 2020

A global team of researchers led by a ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ prof has received a $1.5 million NSF grant to study the classic-period collapse in Mesoamerica.

Satellite to the moon

A roadmap for science on the moon

Sept. 30, 2020

Scientists at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the moon.

Fish in an ocean

The pace of environmental change can doom or save coral reefs

Sept. 30, 2020

Increasing fishing too quickly can cause coral reef ecosystems to collapse, new ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ-led research finds.

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