Researchers/Scientists/Awards

Boston University neuroscientist shows that stimulating different parts of the brain can dial up or down a specific memory's emotional oomphCredit: The Ramirez Group, Boston University What if scientists could manipulate your brain so that…
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Credit: National Robotics Engineering Center and Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, May 22, 2019 - The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University each have been awarded four-year contracts totaling…
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UTSA political scientist is analyzing the UN's Twitter feed to improve diplomatic relations Through research by a political scientist at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), there is potential to see diplomacy between nations…
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Featuring researcher and Executive Director of the American Statistical Association, Ron WassersteinCredit: Monchu 'Statistical significance' is one of the most widely misunderstood phrases in science, according to a 2013 Scientific…
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Stakeholder group will channel collective action for national vector-borne disease strategyCredit: (Tick) Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; (Mosquito) James Gathany, CDC Public Health Image Library …
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SIOP fellow Michele Gelfand elected to American Academy of Arts and SciencesCredit: SIOP Michele J. Gelfand, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Maryland, is part of an illustrious group…
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Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has been selected, once again, as a Lead Academic Participating Site by the National Cancer Institute. The renewal comes with a six-year, $8.9 million grant that will enable the center to provide patients…
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Book by MIT professor examines the circuitous history behind the investigation of cancer as a contagious illness. In 1961, people in the suburb of Niles, Illinois, experienced what they termed a "cancer epidemic." Over a dozen children in…
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Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography Dr. Susan VandeWoude learned the news at Dulles Airport while returning from Washington, D.C., on April 30: She had been elected to join the National Academy of Sciences, one of the…
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Credit: Stand Up To Cancer "Innovation in Collaboration" among Research Teams Rewarded by Grants from Stand Up To Cancer PHILADELPHIA - May 2, 2019 - Stand Up To Cancer announced five new awards today drawing on the strengths of…
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Statement of Principles will be issued in São Paulo during annual meeting of Global Research Council attended by representatives of 50 countries During the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC) in São Paulo, Brazil,…
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Credit: Samuel F. Way What matters more to a scientist's career success: where they currently work, or where they got their Ph.D.? It's a question a team of researchers teases apart in a new paper published in PNAS. Their analysis…
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Researchers at the George Washington University found the protein dermcidin has the greatest fold change in the chronic skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa WASHINGTON (April 25, 2019) -- Dermcidin, an anti-microbial peptide normally…
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Researchers recently demonstrated that people's attitudes about avoiding negative outcomes versus achieving positive outcomes is related to how their performance changes in response to gamified feedback during simulation-based training…
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