Research Wire

A new resonator system discovered in the labs of Lan Yang and Xuan “Silvia” Zhang at the McKelvey School of Engineering can interact with never-before-accessible ranges in the electromagnetic spectrum. The research was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Rohan Mishra, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a $588,795 National Science Foundation CAREER award to discover and develop novel semiconductors.

Kristin Van Engen in Arts & Sciences received a grant from the National Science Foundation to research and better understand communication when accents are involved.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded funding to Tammy English and Renee Thompson in Arts & Sciences for research to better understand emotion and aging.

Eric Galburt, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research DNA repair.

Biologist Susanne S. Renner in Arts & Sciences assembled and edited 15 papers that synthesize and challenge the current understanding of how plants separate into male and female functions for Philosophical Transactions B, published by The Royal Society.

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a $190,388 supplemental award from the National Science Foundation.

Naresha Saligrama, at the School of Medicine, is part of a team that has received multiyear multimillion-dollar funding from Wellcome Leap to study immune responses.

Aaron DiAntonio, Joseph Bloom and Jeffrey Milbrandt, all at the School of Medicine, received a two-year $300,000 grant from the ALS Finding a Cure and the Leandro P. Rizzuto Foundation.

Alison Antes and Tristan McIntosh at the School of Medicine received a $2.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support a project to advance early-career researcher excellence through leadership and management practices.