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41 Science Students Named in Top 100 for 2015
INDIANAPOLIS -- “We are very proud of these Top 100 honorees,” said Dean Simon Rhodes. “They have taken full advantage of the integrated academic, research, leadership and community engagement...
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How alcohol hijacks brain's reward system: $545,000 award funds IUPUI investigation
INDIANAPOLIS -- Scientists have only a rudimentary understanding of how alcohol affects neurons in the brain. It is known that, as any addictive drug, alcohol directly or indirectly acts on a...
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IUPUI biologist receives NIH grant to study how glaucoma develops in stem cells
INDIANAPOLIS -- The five-year, $1.8 million grant is funded by the NIH’s National Eye Institute. Glaucoma is a group of degenerative diseases that damage the eye's optic nerve and can result in...
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$2.2M grant enables IUPUI to study depression-cardiovascular disease link in HIV patients
INDIANAPOLIS -- With the success of antiretroviral therapy, cardiovascular disease is now the leading cause of death in HIV-infected adults. The four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and...
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IUPUI awarded $1.1 million grant to develop tools to predict physical appearance from DNA
INDIANAPOLIS -- Walsh's work, formally known as forensic DNA phenotyping, focuses on the prediction of externally visible characteristics such as eye, hair or skin color from genetic material. Using...
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Geologist named fellow of Geological Society of America
Department of Earth Sciences faculty member Kathy Licht has been named fellow of the Geological Society of America in recognition of her contributions to the geosciences through research, teaching,...