The March Madness Betting Boom

This year, the NCAA’s College Basketball Tournaments will be bigger — and madder — than ever before. Assistant Professor of Communication Arts Jason Kido Lopez is researching the rapid growth of betting around these marquee events.

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Government Under a Magnifying Glass

Associate Professor of Economics Karam Kang zooms in on what works and what doesn’t in municipal governance.

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In Regents Address, Chancellor Mnookin Unveils Bold New Initiatives to Innovate for The Public Good, Address Global Challenges

“My job — our job — is to make this institution even a step stronger — by building on this excellence and also by thinking in big, bold ways about where we can take a quantum leap forward to serve this state and the world on a whole new level,” Chancellor Mnookin said.

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These Tomatoes Are Out of This World… or They Will be Soon

Simon Gilroy and his lab are no strangers to sending plants into space. And, at the end of January, the botany professor and his team will be doing it again for their sixth experiment with NASA on the International Space Station, this time with tomatoes.

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Bridging the Divide for Sexual Violence Survivors

Assistant Professor LB Klein deploys research to improve sexual violence prevention and advocacy programming for LGBTQ+ college students.

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L&S physicists make recommendations for next-generation experiments and IceCube expansion

A group of scientists tasked with advising the federal government’s investments in particle physics research recommends the U.S. fund a planned expansion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The panel includes physics professors Tulika Bose and Kyle Cranmer.

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Zapping manure with special electrode promises an efficient method to produce fertilizers, other chemicals

Chemistry professor Song Jin and doctoral candidate Rui Wang apart of an interdisciplinary team of scientists have developed a new technique that could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other useful chemical products.

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Just One Byte

L&S researchers are wrangling with the thorny ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence and computing.

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A Pediatric Prognosis

James Li is part of an international consortium looking to upend the way mental health disorders are diagnosed.

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