Research
- In his Distinguished Research Lecture Nov. 28, Professor Kirk Ambrose will discuss how institutions used art to authenticate religious relics, as well as condemn counterfeiting.
- New ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ research demonstrates that, with practice, older adults can regain manual dexterity that may have seemed lost.
- In a recently published article, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ researcher Kieran Murphy traces the concurrent paths and points of intersection between pirate and zombie lore in Haiti and popular culture.
- In a newly published paper, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Emmy Herland explores how the very old story of Don Juan remains relevant through its ghosts.
- Recent research by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ geographer Emily Yeh studies the difference between consent and coercion in ‘voluntary’ resettlement of pastoralists in Tibet’s Nagchu region.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ Bortz group, in applied math, wins $1.88 million National Institutes of Health grant to study methods for learning models directly from noisy data.
- Newly published ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ research reveals previously unknown qualities of a gene vital to a cell’s mitochondrial structure and function.
- One way physicists seek clues to unravel the mysteries of the universe is by smashing matter together and inspecting the debris. But these types of destructive experiments, while incredibly informative, have limits.
- What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and 2,500 years of forest history – tell us about the future of wildfires in the West.
- ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ researchers Daniel Craighead, Douglas Seals and their team are studying the effects of a specialized breathing exercise on older adults’ blood pressure, brain health, cognition and fitness.