Professor Jim Sites establishes endowed professorship for Department of Physics
The first such professorship within the department, the endowment provides research operations funds for an incoming faculty member.
Author Archives: Anne Manning
Color-coded biosensor illuminates in real time how viruses attack hosts
New experiments and computational models reveal in single-molecule detail how viruses initiate translation of genetic material into proteins.
From flocks of birds to schools of fish, data can take many shapes
Topological data analysis is an emerging field that describes shapes of data in multiple dimensions and resolutions.
Visualizing a pandemic: Researchers aim to increase public acceptance of safe behaviors
Jessica Witt and a team from University of Michigan are identifying ways to visually communicate COVID-19 risk data to the public.
Research team inks licensing deal for COVID-19 viral detection test
The team has licensed their viral RNA-testing platform to Quara Devices, a startup company specializing in diagnostic biosensors.
Biologists trace plants’ steady mitochondrial genomes to a gene found in viruses, bacteria
Their new understanding of the MSH1 gene could lend insight into why animal mitochondrial genomes tend to mutate more than those of plants.
Even when women outnumber men, gender bias persists among science undergrads
A CSU team conducted a survey-based study among physical and life science undergraduate courses, asking students how they perceived each other’s abilities.
Study: Planting new forests is part of but not the whole solution to climate change
A CSU biology researcher finds that the carbon-capture potential of afforestation may be overestimated.
How teachers are adapting to COVID-19 disruptions is subject of new CSU study
Researchers will survey Noyce scholars, just entering the teaching profession, on how they’ve responded to the pandemic.
Computer scientists combatting COVID-19 falsified data, misinformation
Researchers will spend the next year refining machine learning-based tools that help ensure the integrity of COVID-19 data and news.