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New relationships are often exciting. However, a relationship that starts off feeling great can also shift in ways that are not so great once the excitement and novelty wear off.

How does artificial intelligence shape the news we see online? Researchers in the College of Media, Communication and Information are ready to examine the ethics and fairness of recommender systems in journalism, thanks to a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

As students return to campus in late August, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ Police and the Center for the Prevention and Study of Violence will be adding a new tool to their violence prevention toolkit called the Targeted Violence Lethality Assessment Protocol, or TV-LAP.

Philip DiStefano announced Associate Professor Stefanie Johnson as the new director for ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ’s Center for Leadership. Johnson will assume her new role on Aug. 21.

This summer, young string musicians from across the country came together at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ­’s College of Music­ to hone their craft and advance a culturally diverse future of music at the Sphinx Performance Academy summer camp.

In the wake of the devastating Marshall Fire, a team of chemists and engineers from ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ undertook a first-of-its-kind study to explore homes that survived the blaze. Their results reveal the potential health hazards that wildfires can leave behind in buildings.

Physicists at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made record-breaking measures of electrons, finding that these tiny particles may be more round- than egg-shaped. Their results could bring scientists closer to answering a profound mystery of existence.

Maciej Walczak, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.

A $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Marvin Caruthers’ development in the early 1980s of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids. Caruthers is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ.

CMCI Now earned a bronze Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for its fall 2022 edition, which offered a look back at the founding—and impact—of the Department of Journalism.