Mixing Leadership with Medicine
Growing up as the child of parents with backgrounds in STEM, Natasa Djordjevic (BCHM ’25) always knew that she was destined for a career in science. After spending time researching various fields—from...
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Armour Research Foundation Reactor Receives Nuclear Historic Landmark Status
Fewer than 100 facilities across the United States have been recognized by the American Nuclear Society with Nuclear Historic Landmark status, ranging from the Ames Laboratory Uranium Purification...
Can You Turn a Mouse into a Mammoth?
Imagine a world where once-extinct species roam the Earth again. That sounds a lot like something from Jurassic Park, right? Thanks to a groundbreaking achievement by biologists in Texas, the woolly...
May the Memories Be with You: Professor’s Documentary Explores Impact of Star Wars Experience
For Star Wars fans around the globe, launching into space, building your own lightsaber, enjoying a meal at the cantina, and racing droids once seemed like a far-off fantasy only attainable in a...
Blue Bee Baffles Biologists
When you think of a bee, what do you picture? If the image in your mind was of a blue insect doing handstands, you may be envisioning the world’s newest species of bee: Andrena androfovea. After...
A Quantum Leap in Dark Matter Detection
In the field of physics, scientists have long been puzzled by dark matter. Though it is five times more abundant throughout our universe than the ordinary matter that make up all we can see, dark...
Raspberry Razzle Dazzle
In a fusion of food science, technology, and innovation, six teams of ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵAPP students gathered at Charlie Baggs Culinary Innovations in Chicago in November 2024 to compete in the Department of...
A Call for Quality Connections
In today’s digital age, where so many connections are at our fingertips, recently outgoing United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has sounded the alarm on a growing health crisis: loneliness. In...
Surveying the SkAI: ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵAPP’s Astronomy Program Begins Its Orbit
By taking a small step to join the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Discovery Alliance in spring 2024, ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵAPP Institute of Technology’s burgeoning astronomy program has taken a giant leap...
Protecting Your Plate
Following another E.coli outbreak, consumers are left to ponder a simple, yet delicate question: how safe is it to eat the food on my plate? The most recent outbreak—linked to organic carrots—was...