BHRI and its members in the news
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С»ÆƬÊÓƵ researchers’ innovative techniques have unveiled surprising new details about the brain’s fertility cells that may prove useful for treating infertility disorders. After several years of research, Aleisha Moore, Lique Coolen and Michael Lehman published a paper…
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Chirality, or the absence of mirror symmetry in a molecule, is a complex topic that Material Sciences Professor Torsten Hegmann is determined to know more about. Hegmann, director of the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, and other С»ÆƬÊÓƵ collaborators led…
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С»ÆƬÊÓƵ alumnus Earl K. Miller, Ph.D., and his wife, Marlene M. Wicherski, have pledged $2 million to support research programs and students in С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s Brain Health Research Institute. The Brain Health Research Institute is a recently established, cross-…
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Students across the nation were challenged as the pandemic swept the world. Healing Stanzas, a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center, the Healthy Communities Research Institute and the Brain Health Research Institute, seeks to combine the science of brain health and…
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Intentionality to build successful academic mentoring relationships with students is what sets professors apart at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ, and each year two professors at the graduate and undergraduate level receive a student-nominated award for their ability to do so. The intent of the…
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The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $1.86 million grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt to develop molecular tools that help researchers to understand membrane proteins. This is the first time a professor at С»ÆƬÊÓƵ has been awarded an R35, which provides promising…
Congratulations to Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., and his research group for leading an international collaboration and publishing their work in Science Advances! Their article, titled “Effects of shape and solute-solvent compatibility on the efficacy of chirality transfer:…
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Intravenous (IV) needle insertion is a practice that many medical professionals learn and need to master. A new cross-departmental С»ÆƬÊÓƵ project in the works will help nursing students improve their skills with cutting-edge technology.
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С»ÆƬÊÓƵ’s Brain Health Research Institute celebrated the grand opening of its new lab spaces on Friday, Nov. 5, with an afternoon of activities that included a keynote presentation, space dedication, tours and student research demonstrations. The new space,…
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Last Spring, the С»ÆƬÊÓƵ Board of Trustees approved the Anti-Racism and Equity Institute, which creates an important interdisciplinary hub for faculty, students, staff and community members engaged in race and anti-racism scholarship, activism and education. “Kent…