The Record

Fail Better: Tim Bono

As a PhD student, Tim Bono submitted article after article to leading psychology journals and was rejected every single time. That failure led Bono, now an assistant dean in Arts & Sciences, to discover positive psychology, a field he loves to research and teach.

Nerve injury appears to be root of diabetes-related vision loss

Diabetes-related vision loss most often is blamed on blood vessel damage in and around the retina. But new research from the School of Medicine indicates that much of that vision loss may result from nerve cell injury that occurs long before any blood vessels are damaged.