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Dino Store game

Students working in the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center and Quantitative Biosciences Graduate Program created two video games as part of a major independent game design event to help stem the spread of Covid-19.

NSF Grant Awarded to Advance Recruitment of Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Ph.D. Pipeline

College of Engineering and College of Sciences leverage grant to drive diversity across all graduate programs. The project is known as Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Research Universities Alliance Model: Advancing Minority Math, Physical Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Scholars to Faculty.

Molei Tao

Molei Tao's recent interest in machine learning has paid off for the School of Math researcher, as his first paper on the subject won top honors at the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.

Fenton and Farmer

School of Physics professor Flavio Fenton is named to the 25th annual Governor's Teaching Fellows Program, set up to help higher education faculty develop teaching skills. Fenton will work on a classroom-related research project through the fellowship.

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School of Psychology researcher wins NSF subcontract for measuring AI’s effectiveness in classrooms, along with funding for a U.S. Air Force-related project studying team dynamics in training

 

New insights into RNA as a template

Genomes are routinely subjected to DNA damage. But most cells have DNA repair systems that enforce genome stability and, ideally, prevent diseases like cancer. The trouble gets serious when these systems break down. When that happens, damage such as unrepaired DNA lesions can lead to tumors, and genomic chaos ensues.