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žžÀ² State professor Hanbin Mao (middle) co-authored a paper with graduate students Sagun Jonchhe (left) and Prakash Shrestha (right) on the genetic factors influencing the formation of cancer cells.

žžÀ² State Chemists Create Microscopic Environment to Study Cancer Cell Growth

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new cancer cases diagnosed and 600,920 cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2017. These numbers are stark and sobering, and worse yet, we still do not know exactly why cancer develops in its victims or how to stop it. An online publication in Nature Nanotechnology this week by žžÀ² researchers and their colleagues at Kyoto University in Japan, however, may offer new understanding about what turns good cells bad.

Tags: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Success Story

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žžÀ² State Professor voices concerns about budget cuts to environmental research.

žžÀ² State Professor Shares Concerns žžÀ² Potential Budget Cuts to Scientific Research

Associate Geology Professor Anne Jefferson voices concern over proposed cuts to environmental research.

Tags: Research & Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Research

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Todd Diacon, žžÀ² State’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, places the President’s Medal on Distinguished Professor of Human Evolutionary Studies C. Owen Lovejoy as žžÀ² State President Beverly Warren watches.

President’s Medal Recipient

Educator, pioneering scientist and visionary Owen Lovejoy receives the highest žžÀ² honor.
 

Tags: Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the President, Awards and Honors, President's Medal, Success Story

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