Ley honored for groundbreaking leukemia research

Timothy J. Ley, MD, at the School of Medicine, has been honored by the American Society of Hematology with the Henry Stratton Medal for outstanding contributions to hematology. Ley also recently was honored by France’s Fondation ARC for cancer research.

New center’s aim: to ID biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases

The Tracy Family SILQ Center for Neurodegenerative Biology has been established at the School of Medicine. The center aims to help researchers discover, study and validate biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, with a goal of identifying new drug targets and creating better diagnostic and prognostic tests.

Amy Hauft: The space between abstract and experiential knowledge

Artist Amy Hauft, director of the College of Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has the most complex exhibition of her career on view at Mass MoCA in Massachusetts. She discusses “700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol,” her working process and humanity’s place in a dangerous universe.

Kouvelis receives 2022 Distinguished Fellow Award

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Panos Kouvelis, at Olin Business School, is the 2022 recipient of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s Distinguished Fellow Award, widely regarded as the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a research scholar in the field of operations management.

Best offense is a great defense for some carnivorous plants

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Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the ability to capture and consume live prey has largely remained a mystery. Biologist Ivan Radin in Arts & Sciences and collaborators investigated the molecular basis of plant carnivory in sundews and found evidence that it evolved from mechanisms plants use to defend themselves.