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A poverty-stricken city on the murky shore of Lake Victoria, Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya. It also sits in the heart of a region with an alarmingly high HIV-infection rate: More than 18 percent of Kisumu County residents have the life-threatening virus, many of them unaware.
University of Washington | For the next six months, Texas A&M meteorology students will be helping NOAA collect important atmospheric sciences data when severe weather strikes in Texas.
Texas A&M University | Undergraduate students at Indiana University measured palm sweat and its reaction to outside stimuli through a palm sweat sensor. Known as skin conductance, the measurement of this sweat helps indicate psychological states, such as stress.
Indiana University Bloomington | Organisms discovered by Yale undergraduates growing within fungi in the Amazon Rainforest can degrade polyurethane, a findings that may lead to innovative ways to reduce waste in the world's landfills.
Yale University | In the spring of her sophomore year, after taking courses in basic biology and organic chemistry, Khan found herself intrigued by chemistry’s environmental applications. Although she had yet to declare an official major, Khan was referred to Assistant Professor Betsy Stone's lab by a friend who was…
The University of Iowa | Stony Brook University undergraduate Lydia Myers spent the summer on a dig near Lake Turkana, Kenya.
Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | Some day, not too far in the future, devastating diseases may be treated with drugs built from specialized synthetic molecules, thanks to the research of recent UO graduate Muhammad Khalifa.
University of Oregon | Cornell undergraduate students from a geophysics class will deploy a network of 15 seismometers around campus through late fall, through which they will collect data for a year.
Cornell University | A new machine-learning simulation system developed at the University of Illinois promises cosmologists an expanded suite of galaxy models – a necessary first step to developing more accurate and relevant insights into the formation of the universe.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | A 30-year-old college dropout left his undergraduate career to pursue a music career, after receiving a record deal. Ten years later, the rock & roller enrolled as a chemistry major at Rutgers University-Newark and is now conducting pharmaceutical research in a lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical…
Rutgers University-New Brunswick |