AAU universities conduct a majority of the federally funded university research that contributes to our economic competitiveness, health and well-being, and national security. AAU universities are growing our economy through invention and innovation while preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers for global leadership. By moving research into the marketplace AAU universities are helping to create jobs, and provide society with new medicines and technologies.
UMD geologists uncovered evidence of a section of seafloor that sank into the Earth's mantle when dinosaurs roamed the Earth; it's located off the west coast of South America in a zone known as the East Pacific Rise.
Novel research supported by NCI could lead to more specific predictive disease models
A new University of Kansas study reveals parents seeking health care information for their children trust AI more than health care professionals when the author is unknown, and parents rate AI generated text as credible, moral and trustworthy.
Hypertension and amyloid plaques can separately cause dementia. Having both increases a person’s odds of developing cognitive decline, a new study finds
Explore More: University Research
You can filter stories by the university.
“Your cancer has metastasized. I’m sorry,” is something no one wants to hear a doctor say.
Your smartphone reduces brain power when it's within reach — even if it’s off, according to a new study at the University of Texas at Austin.
"When we approach mental illness, we need to keep an open mind about what might be occurring that we don’t understand," says Lisa Pan, professor of psychiatry and of clinical and translational science at The University of Pittsburgh.
University of Pittsburgh | Researching the Brain, Seeking Cures | Depression & Schizophrenia | University Research
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh think they may have found a way to make immunotherapy drugs more effective against cancer.
The nation’s drug policies are based on unproven assumptions about addiction, Standford University researchers say, and neuroscience could help shape more effective policies.