Stories about Research

Collage illustration of Charlotte Smith's life map

Elizabeth Dolan Maps the Life and Legacy of Charlotte Smith

Dolan celebrates English Romantic writer Charlotte Smith by tracing and telling her story.

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The Causes and Impact of the Bullwhip Effect on Supply Chains

Oliver Yao and his team use data, interviews and observations collected along the supply chain to show one of the real causes and effects of the bullwhip effect.

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Jihyun Kim Examines How Teachers Perceive Their Teacher Evaluation Policy

Teachers' perceptions of these policies impact instructional improvement and teacher behavior.

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The Glass Floor

Heather Johnson studies the inverse of the glass ceiling—an “invisible safety net” that keeps children from historically advantaged groups from falling down the ladder of success.

Visualization of the early universe, depicting particles in the quark-gluon "soup" which existed less than one millionth of a second after the Big Bang

Mapping How Big-Bang-Produced Quark-Gluon Plasma Became All Matter

Physicist Rosi Reed works with an international group of scientists and engineers to map quark-gluon plasma’s phase diagram.

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Can the Scutoid Shape the Future of Regenerative Medicine?

The discovery of a new three-dimensional shape could advance understanding of cell topology and the field of regenerative medicine.

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Ahmed Rahman Examines How Technology & Lower-Skilled Immigrant Workers Impact Wage Distributions

Study observes how the interactions between technological growth and specialization patterns between native and immigrant workers affect wages earned by native workers.

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The Moscow Conceptualism Movement: Art ‘Beyond the Fence’

Mary Nicholas’ monograph tells the full story of a radical art movement.

A 63x confocal image of low-frequency hair cells taken from a control animal with no gene manipulation

Investigating Neurons’ Frequency Dependence on Input from the Ear for Normal Development

Neurons, or brain cells, deliver critical information used by our auditory system to interpret sounds. R. Michael Burger and his team ask: How do they know what type of frequency to detect?

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Nik Nikolov Explores Structural Topology Optimization As a Tool for Architectural Design

The approach, not widely used in architecture and the building sciences, gives rise to important questions.