Research

Dr. Peter de B Harrington, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry,  co-authored a Jan. 21 article in Electroanalysis. The paper is on “A Sensitive and Selective Electrochemical Sensor Based on Graphene Quantum Dot/Gold Nanoparticle Nanocomposite Modified Electrode for the Determination of Quercetin in Biological Samples.” The other authors are Jianjun Li, […]

By Juliana Scheiderer ’16 Can discrimination have an effect on physical health? Wilson Figueroa, a graduate student in health psychology, thinks so. Through his research in the Psychology Department’s stress lab, Figueroa is tracking associations between discrimination and self-reports of poor health in the LGBT community. His adviser is Dr. […]

By Sydney Dawes Environmental & Plant Biology Four students studying biology and plant biology received Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund awards this fall. The competitive awards, first offered in 2001, support students working with a faculty member on an independent project. Students can receive up to $1,500 and are required to […]

Dr. Mitchell Day, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, co-authored an article on “Neural population encoding and decoding of sound source location across sound level in the rabbit inferior colliculus” in the Journal of Neurophysiology. (21 October 2015 Vol. no. , DOI: 10.1152/jn.00643.2015) His co-author was Bertrand Delgutte. Abstract: At lower […]

Dr. Lynne Lancaster, Professor of Classics & World Religions, published a book on Innovative Vaulting in Architecture of the Roman Empire, 1st to 4th Centuries CE. Cambridge University Press 2015. Abstract: This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where […]

By Sydney Dawes| Environmental and Plant Biology Images of orange water poured out of Emily Keil’s phone as she discussed her current research. The orange is from the unusual amounts of iron that have built up in many streams in the Athens area over the years. Keil, a graduate student […]

Congrats to Psychology graduate students Shelby Martin and Akanksha Srivastav, who had their abstracts accepted for poster presentations at the 2016 International Conference on Eating Disorders, which will be held May 5-7, 2016, in San Francisco.