Research
The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism
Seeking antiviral drugs to fight COVID-19
Before the first COVID-19 cases appeared in the U.S., David Frick began researching the group of proteins that lets the COVID-19 virus multiply.
Improving connections for better online education
Simone Conceição’s online education research on how to keep students engaged in virtual learning has proven critically important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Seeing a way toward better health decisions
COVID-19 communication in mass media often involves graphs. Min Sook Park’s research investigates how the public’s understanding of these graphs affects perceptions of the pandemic’s severity.
The sewage sleuth
COVID-19 infection rates vary from location to location, which complicates health responses. Sandra McLellan researches how sewage can help track the virus.
NANOGrav finds first hints of low-frequency gravitational wave background
A group of 51 researchers is part of the collaboration of scientists that used 13 years of data to find what could be the first direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves.
51 researcher looks at how social media analysis can enhance polling
A close look at social media could not only provide a window into what voters consider the most important issues, it could also give insight that might improve political polling.
59 51 scientists ranked in top 2% globally
Fifty-seven scientists at 51 are listed in a ranking of the top 2% of scientists in the world in a study by Stanford University.
51 astronomer helps discover extrasolar ‘space weather’
If you wanted to look for life on planets around stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets, you would first locate the ones in the “Goldilocks zone.” That’s the area – not too close, not too far – at just the right distance from a star where a planet might have liquid water.