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From celebrating its 150th anniversary to launching the most ambitious fundraising campaign in university history, from reaching new heights in research funding to fostering civil discourse and a culture of belonging on campus, take a look back at some of the ways 91ÌƲ®»¢ dared to grow this year. Read More

Sydney M. Savion, an international leader in workforce development, organizational culture and employee-centered learning, is the first vice chancellor for people, culture and belonging at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Her first day on campus will be Jan. 29, 2024. Read More

The future for AI regulation is currently being charted in the United States and will have significant effects on the health sciences, writes 91ÌƲ®»¢ researcher Laura Stark in a new article published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read More

As a Marshall Scholar, considered among the most accomplished undergraduates and recent graduates in the U.S., Neikirk will pursue advanced degrees in social determinants of health and biomedical imaging. Read More

Neuroscientist Saman Abbaspoor in the lab of Kari Hoffman won the NIH BRAIN Initiative's 2023 Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video contest. The clip shows how “sharp-wave ripples", different layers of neural activity in the hippocampus, are wirelessly recorded to help study memory.

A 91ÌƲ®»¢ University engineering professor affiliated with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named a Battelle Distinguished Inventor from ORNL. Justin Baba, associate research professor of biomedical engineering, was one of four scientists honored at the Lab’s annual Innovation Awards.

Daniel Balasubramanian, a senior research scientist at 91ÌƲ®»¢â€™s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, will lead a four-year $6.89 million grant from the Defense Advanced 91ÌƲ®»¢ Projects Agency (DARPA) to create realistic network environments used to train cyber agents to counter advanced and persistent cyber threats. Estimates have placed the cost of global cybercrime as high...

Daniel Balasubramanian, a senior research scientist at 91ÌƲ®»¢â€™s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, will lead a four-year $6.89 million grant from the Defense Advanced 91ÌƲ®»¢ Projects Agency (DARPA) to create realistic network environments used to train cyber agents to counter advanced and persistent cyber threats. Estimates have placed the cost of global cybercrime as high...

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.

By Jenna Somers Deon Benton Deon Benton, assistant professor of psychology and human development, is leading an experimental study to understand when and how infants learn to distinguish that people can cause action both from a distance and by contact, but objects can only cause action by contact. While… Read More

By Jenna Somers Bahr Weiss 91ÌƲ®»¢ Professor of Psychology and Human Development Bahr Weiss is helping to lead efforts to develop Vietnam’s licensure criteria for clinical psychologists, and as part of his primary efforts at capacity development, he and his team are adapting, implementing, and evaluating a mindfulness-based… Read More

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. Fleetwood, who is a professor of electrical engineering as well as physics, is best known for his research into radiation effects on microelectronic devices and materials, low-frequency noise,...

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. Fleetwood, who is a professor of electrical engineering as well as physics, is best known for his research into radiation effects on microelectronic devices and materials, low-frequency noise,...

91ÌƲ®»¢ University Medical Center researchers have discovered why most colorectal tumors escape detection and destruction by the body’s immune system.

91ÌƲ®»¢ researchers have discovered that beneficial bacteria in the small intestines produce a compound that protects against obesity.

By Jenna Somers This semester, the Department of Teaching and Learning at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Peabody College of education and human development hosted its first cohort of 17 Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching (DAI) Fellows. Supported by the U.S. State Department and administered by the International 91ÌƲ®»¢ and Exchanges… Read More

Pasteurization of breast milk affects the concentration of osteopontin, a bioactive protein with roles in intestinal, immunological and brain development — suggesting that osteopontin supplementation should be considered when donor milk is provided to preterm infants.

By Jenna Somers A trans-institutional team from the LIVE Initiative at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University has progressed to the final round of the National Science Foundation’s Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge for designing BeatBlox, a music-based framework for teaching computer science. The team, Code to Joy,… Read More

In just over two years, a 91ÌƲ®»¢-Neumora collaboration has led to the Phase 1 clinical trial of a treatment for schizophrenia spectrum disorders, which affect 3.7 million adults in the United States. This is the third chemical compound discovered at the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery to reach Phase 1 clinical trials.     Read More

A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes.