Division of Natural Sciences
- Agnès Beaudry is named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the sixth ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø faculty member to garner this distinction.
- ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø research associate Charleen Gust demonstrates that the physical and psychological benefits of yoga last longer with consistent practice.
- In studying dinosaur discards, ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø scientist Karen Chin has gained expertise recently honored with the Bromery Award and detailed in a new children’s book.
- Gary Wall, a 1970 ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø physics graduate, won the Los Alamos Medal in recognition of more than 50 years of distinguished work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- New ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø research demonstrates that, with practice, older adults can regain manual dexterity that may have seemed lost.
- Richard Jessor, ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø distinguished professor of behavioral science and co-founder of IBS, records an oral history with the National World War II Museum and will return to the island in March, on the 79th anniversary of the battle.
- ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø PhD student Mikayla Huffman joins ‘The Ampersand’ podcast for a discussion about identity and discovery.
- Recent research by ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø geographer Emily Yeh studies the difference between consent and coercion in ‘voluntary’ resettlement of pastoralists in Tibet’s Nagchu region.
- ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍøâ€™s 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 ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø research reveals previously unknown qualities of a gene vital to a cell’s mitochondrial structure and function.