While most of their classmates will learn where they will serve their residencies on Friday, March 18, members of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2022 who participated in the Ophthalmology Residency Matching Program already know where they are headed. Brian Argus, MEd, matched at Indiana University and Imani M. Williams, MBS, matched at the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Gang Han, PhD
Gang Han, PhD

Gang Han, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular biotechnology, has been elected by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to its College of Fellows. Dr. Han was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of Fellows for creative advances in the development of nanomaterials for biophotonic applications.

Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD
Robert H. Brown Jr., DPhil, MD

An international team of investigators has discovered that an inorganic polyphosphate released by nerve cells known as astrocytes in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) contributes to the motor neuron death that is the signature of these diseases.

Associate Professor Chris Harris
Assoc. Prof. Chris Harris is leading a grant to study law enforcement officers who join extremist groups involved in domestic terrorism.

How many law enforcement officers, military veterans and active duty service members are affiliated with far-right groups that commit acts of domestic terrorism? Are people who post violent thoughts online likely to act on them? 

Justin Baez Peguero
Justin Baez Peguero, chair of the SGA's Academic Affairs Committee, says it was "amazing" to collaborate with sociology students on the annual survey of undergraduates.

Every year, the Student Government Association (SGA) surveys undergraduate students to learn more about their most pressing needs and concerns, so it

Students sit in a class with a professor instructing at the front
Now in its second semester of use, the Academic Success Alerts web application makes it easier for faculty to connect faltering students with timely support and resources.

If a student finds themselves struggling in a course, there are several places they can turn to on campus for 

Satellite view of ash plume rising from explosion of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano
This satellite view shows an ash plume rising from the Jan. 15 explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, which released energy equivalent to about 10 million tons of TNT.

On Jan.

Gas prices listed on a Shell station sign
Gas was up to $4.51 a gallon on a recent Friday afternoon at the Shell station near South Campus.

With gas prices hitting record highs, drivers everywhere are reaching deeper into their pockets at the pump.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the journal Current Biology that an amoeba called Naegleria has evolved more distinct sets of tubulins, used for specific cellular processes, than previously thought.

Jennifer Rauch, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, is collaborating on a two-year, $700,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop a new technology to treat Alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases.

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