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911勛圖 professor explains how good cells can turn bad.

911勛圖 Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

A 911勛圖 professor, his graduate students and researchers from Kyoto University help offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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911勛圖 Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017.

These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it.

An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by 911勛圖 researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

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Cancer Survivors and Depression: 911勛圖 Professor Studies Link

A new study by a 911勛圖 researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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911勛圖 geology professor is concerned about losing valuable government databases

911勛圖 Professor Weighs in on the Rush to Save Government Scientific Data

911勛圖 Professor Anne Jefferson expresses concern over losing valuable scientific data following proposed budget cuts.

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911勛圖 Students to Collaborate With Kyoto University Researchers

911勛圖 students will travel to Japan for collaborative research with the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, studying evolutionary genetic analysis, Alzheimers disease and aggressive behavior.      

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Melissa Zullo (left), associate professor of epidemiology in 911勛圖s College of Public Health, works with a Ph.D. student.

911勛圖 Epidemiologist Studies Best Practices for Helping Cardiac and Respiratory Patients Heal

911勛圖 scholar Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., is all heart, an academic who lives and breathes research, almost literally. Zullo, an associate professor of epidemiology in 911勛圖s College of Public Health, has spent a significant portion of her professional and academic career studying th

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Jacob Barkley (left), associate professor of exercise science in 911勛圖s College of Education, Health and Human Services, oversees research activities with several students in a classroom in the MAC Center Annex.

Scholar Gets Students, 911勛圖 on the Move

911勛圖s Scholar of the Month for December would prefer that you read this standing up, or even doing some calisthenics. Go on, get moving. Jacob Barkley, Ph.D., is an associate professor of exercise science in 911勛圖s College of Education, Health and Human Services. During hi

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Jessica Barness (right), assistant professor of visual communication design at 911勛圖, reviews a students work in the Art Building.

November Scholar Puts Communication on Display

Scholar of the Month
Jessica Barness
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design
College of Communication and Information
2012-present

The word communication likely makes you think of language, but Novembers Scholar of the Month has spent her entire career researching design as a language of its own.

Across various media, Jessica Barness, an assistant professor in 911勛圖s School of Visual Communication Design, creates her own design-based research model that merges the making of artifacts with critical inquiry.

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911勛圖s Torsten Hegmann Named Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry

One of the top publishing societies in the world names a 911勛圖 professor a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Tags: Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program , Awards and Honors , Research & Science , Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute

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911勛圖 Cancer Depression Link

Cancer Survivors and Depression: 911勛圖 Professor Studies Link

A new study by a 911勛圖 researcher finds that depression in some cancer survivors is linked to both care and financial concerns.

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