Stricter state sentencing laws in Washington have swelled the ranks of inmates serving life sentences to nearly one in five. And some lifers who opted to go to trial are serving much longer sentences than others who committed the same crimes and plea-bargained — raising questions about equitable treatment of prisoners.
Felicia Goodrum, a University of Arizona associate professor of immunobiology and member of the BIO5 Institute, has devoted 20 years researching the cytomegalovirus, or CMV, one of eight human herpesviruses infecting 60 to 99 percent of adults worldwide.
An undergraduate students at New York University (NYU) and McGill University found that monolingual infants expect others to understand only one language, while bilingual infants do not hold the same expectations.
UPenn professor Kushanava Choudhury and his undergraduate students use the classroom as a lab for doing original social science research. The class of six asked: How are immigrants playing a role in the city’s revitalization?
Karina Javalkar has spent the last three years as an undergraduate researcher in the UNC Health Care Transition Program. Under School of Medicine professor Maria Ferris, Javalkar studies the transition from pediatric to adult care for adolescents and young adults with chronic illnesses, especially chronic kidney disease.
Northwestern University students used data analytics to help prepare for the mass gathering, including course design, medical preparedness, public safety and security for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.
Denying their shy tendencies, two University of Pittsburgh undergraduate students began a social project that required them striking up conversations with strangers to reveal the commonalities of human experience.
A group of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago are members of the MAPSCorps Scientific Symposium, a group which spends six weeks in the community collecting data about resources in the South Side of Chicago and how they are utilized.