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Celso Ferreira in �鶹��Ƶ's College of Engineering and Computing is studying the impact of climate change on jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.

On March 31, 2023, �鶹��Ƶ hosted its seventh annual �鶹��Ƶ Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference and Three-Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition

In April, 39 �鶹��Ƶ students attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research at University of Wisconsin­–Eau Claire, where they made new friends, networked, and gained experiences that will help them in their studies and careers.

A �鶹��Ƶ professor is the sole academic working with the U.S. government in an unprecedented effort to measure environmental-economic activity.

Whether it is pressing deadlines, overwork, or employees feeling they are not being supported, anger in a work environment can be unavoidable. Over time, the anger and frustration can compound, causing anger to spread through the entire team or organization, creating what �鶹��Ƶ expert Mandy O’Neill calls a “culture of anger.”

Substance use disorder affects more than 40 million Americans according to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Recovery can be a difficult path, but an interdisciplinary team led by Holly Matto, associate professor in the Department of Social Work, aims to make it a little easier through a recently patented technology-based therapy. 

At a time when policing in the United States is facing major challenges, �鶹��Ƶ’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy is beginning a first-of-its-kind multi-method longitudinal study of a cohort of police officers to understand how officers progress through their law enforcement careers.

Probiotic supplementation staved off the negative effects associated with a high-fat diet, illustrating how probiotics may play a key role in preventative health care, �鶹��Ƶ study indicates.

This promising preliminary research comes from a new pilot study by Bethany Cieslowski, Associate Professor of Nursing in �鶹��Ƶ’s College of Public Health.

�鶹��Ƶ researchers are making inroads in an important element of health diagnosis and treatment, and with funding from the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) Commonwealth Commercialization Fund, are seeking to launch a startup to commercialize their developments.