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The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s I-Corps program is an accelerator that helps entrepreneurs and researchers work together “to bring invention to impact.” �鶹��Ƶ serves as an official I-Corps site, supporting local grantees through the exploratory stages of venture-building, as well as preparing them to apply for the national-level program.

Robinson Professor James Trefil, who is the third �鶹��Ƶ faculty member to reach the milestone of 50 years of service, taught at the University of Virginia for more than a decade before joining �鶹��Ƶ’s then brand-new Robinson Professor Program in 1987.

It’s the stuff of nightmares and horror movies: Tiny estuarine mud crabs become infected with an invasive parasite that takes over their bodies and brains. But it isn’t fiction, and �鶹��Ƶ’s team of researchers is learning more about these invaders and how they impact the ecology of our region.

Professor Hakeem Oluseyi attributes his unlikely rise from the pull of poverty and crime to hope, hustle, and help, and he wants to pay it forward.

The Pistone family from Ohio received the 11th annual Alan and Sally Merten Family of the Year Award at �鶹��Ƶ’s Family Weekend.

As a 2021 WW Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow, �鶹��Ƶ alum Alexander Kruszewski will teach for three years in high-need Pennsylvania public schools.

�鶹��Ƶ, FARO announce partnership to advance forensic science research.

�鶹��Ƶ scientists Tom Lovejoy and Ed Maibach discuss global climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

The first event this semester features Jagadish Shukla, Distinguished University Professor and managing director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, who will address “Climate Change: Science, Politics and Ethics.”

With COVID-19 continuing to spread throughout the world, there is a demand for rapid, noninvasive diagnostics. �鶹��Ƶ researchers Robin Couch and Allyson Dailey, members of the College of Science and the Institute of Biohealth Innovation, are working to answer that call with their research on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for infectious disease detection.