by Hardin Young | Nov 28, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation
Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they’ve experienced “serious loneliness” in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and...
by Hardin Young | Oct 30, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation
New Findings Supply Corrective to Evolutionary Hypothesis For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that “younger”...
by Hardin Young | Oct 12, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation, Student Success
Researchers Publish Breakthrough Study on How New Genes Evolve Where do new genes come from? That’s the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer in a new study. They did so by examining the evolution of antifreeze...
by Hardin Young | Oct 5, 2024 | Awards & Honors, Features, Research, Research and Innovation
International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Announces Shields for Dirk Hellhammer Award Grant Shields, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at the U of A, has been awarded the 2024 Dirk Hellhammer Award from the International Society of...
by Hardin Young | Sep 26, 2024 | Features, Field Notes, Research, Research and Innovation
Technology Ventures’ Inventor Spotlight: Susanne Striegler Susanne Striegler isn’t sure if she chose chemistry or chemistry chose her. “Leverkusen in Germany is the hometown of Bayer, and that’s where I grew up,” explains the professor of...
