The virus holds many mysteries, but her discoveries may help develop new drugs.
Dr. Susan Robinson’s research could help you (or someone you love) avoid falls and the expensive medical bills that come with them.
Her studies show it could be good for your health.
Dr. Adena Young-Jones found an online test that brings to light hidden prejudice. And she’s developed a course that helps those prejudices disappear.
When a stroke changes the family dynamics, Dr. Alana Kozlowski’s group could change the tune for those with aphasia.
Math plus technology equals statistics. Dr. Erin Buchanan uses stats to predict how you will respond in challenging situations.
She’s helping students leap hurdles to health problems down the road
Dancers’ seemingly effortless movements place great demands upon their bodies. Dr. Jim Hackney and Sara Brummel studied how dancers’ joints absorb forces as they move, leap and land.
Dr. Ann Rost is giving cancer a one-two punch through her research.
Dr. Julie Masterson knows from personal experience that literacy development in children is an area most people don’t understand. Now, she’s the expert.
The possibility of curing fatal diseases, such as cancer, may be closer than we think. Dr. Robert Delong’s research team is interested in Ribonucleic Acids (RNA) targeting, a very rapidly developing field in science.
In an exemplary show of team work, kinesiology, special education, dietetics, computer science and graphic design students developed TRAIN to assess skills and improve eating habits in Special Olympic athletes.
What you see, how your eye travels across objects and how long you stare say a lot about development and learning. To psychologists like Dr. D Wayne Mitchell, these looks are physiological signs that you are having a “response to novelty” and are actively encoding new information.
Many hearing screenings go like this: An audiologist plays tones to a child or an adult wearing headphones or sitting inside a sound booth. The person being screened responds, letting the tester know the range of sounds he or she can hear. But what if the subject is an infant, or an adult with dementia, who can’t be expected to understand test instructions, raise a hand, press a button or talk to the screener?