Division of Natural Sciences
- Agnès Beaudry is named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society, the sixth Âé¶¹Ô´´ faculty member to garner this distinction.
- Âé¶¹Ô´´ research associate Charleen Gust demonstrates that the physical and psychological benefits of yoga last longer with consistent practice.
- In studying dinosaur discards, Âé¶¹Ô´´ scientist Karen Chin has gained expertise recently honored with the Bromery Award and detailed in a new children’s book.
- Gary Wall, a 1970 Âé¶¹Ô´´ physics graduate, won the Los Alamos Medal in recognition of more than 50 years of distinguished work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- New Âé¶¹Ô´´ research demonstrates that, with practice, older adults can regain manual dexterity that may have seemed lost.
- Richard Jessor, Âé¶¹Ô´´ 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.
- Âé¶¹Ô´´ PhD student Mikayla Huffman joins ‘The Ampersand’ podcast for a discussion about identity and discovery.
- Recent research by Âé¶¹Ô´´ geographer Emily Yeh studies the difference between consent and coercion in ‘voluntary’ resettlement of pastoralists in Tibet’s Nagchu region.
- Âé¶¹Ô´´â€™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 Âé¶¹Ô´´ research reveals previously unknown qualities of a gene vital to a cell’s mitochondrial structure and function.