Undergraduate makes key discovery of mosquito species existence

Photo by Joe AngelesStephanie Gallitano, a junior chemistry student in Arts & Sciences, works with postdoctoral researcher James Vonesh at the University’s Tyson Research Center.”It was pretty thrilling to discover it,” says Stephanie Gallitano, who performed 12 weeks of research this summer.

Caring for kids

Courtesy PhotoSchool of Medicine students collected nearly 90 teddy bears for children affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Cell phone radiation doesn’t cause cellular stress, doesn’t promote cancer

Cell phone radiation doesn’t stress human cells.Weighing in on the debate about whether cell phones have adverse health effects, researchers at the School of Medicine have found that the electromagnetic radiation produced by cell phones does not activate the stress response in mouse, hamster or human cells growing in cultures. High levels of the stress response are thought to result in changes associated with malignancy.

‘Science on Tap’

Three Hilltop Campus Arts & Sciences faculty — a biologist, geologist and mathematician — are participants in a new series, “Science on Tap.”
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