by Todd Price | Dec 15, 2024 | Features, Outreach & Impact, Research, Research and Innovation
School Suspensions and Expulsions Can Lead to a Lifetime of Depression Each year, nearly 5 million children in the U.S. are suspended or expelled from school. New research from the U of A found this type of school discipline can lead to higher rates of depression...
by Todd Price | Dec 14, 2024 | Community Outreach, Features, Outreach & Impact, Research, Research and Innovation
Fayetteville Police Positive About Partnership With Social Workers In 2021, the U of A School of Social Work partnered with the Fayetteville Police Department to pair officers with social workers trained to help people suffering mental crises. Initially, the officers...
by Todd Price | Dec 13, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation
The Hidden Disease Risks of Modern Housing Development in Rural Africa Tamika Lunn went to Kenya looking for bats. Her task, as a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of U of A biologist Kristian Forbes, was to catch bats to understand if, when and why they carried...
by Todd Price | Oct 28, 2024 | Awards & Honors, Features, Research
DOE Funds Research That Could Lead to Faster, Energy Efficient Computers The Department of Energy awarded just under $975,000 to Charles Paillard, a U of A research professor of physics and director of the Smart Ferroic Materials Center, to study aluminum scandium...
by Todd Price | Oct 25, 2024 | Awards & Honors, Features, Interdisciplinary Research, Research
NIH Awards $3.4 Million for Study of Situational Bias in Healthcare The National Institutes of Health awarded just under $3.4 million to Anastasia Makhanova, an assistant professor of psychology at the U of A. Makhanova will study how stress, illness or worries about...
