Jul 8, 2019
A New Approach to Lung Cancer Research
Chloe Triolo '19 discusses her research with Khadijah Mitchell, Peter C.S. d’Aubermont Scholar of Health and Life Sciences, on lung cancer, including…
Health and Life Sciences
Jun 7, 2019
Prof. Khadijah Mitchell Receives Grant for Kidney Cancer Research
By Katie Neitz Khadijah Mitchell, Peter C.S. d’Aubermont, M.D., Scholar of Health and Life Sciences and assistant professor of biology, has been awarded…
Dec 3, 2018
Linking Health and Racism
Research has shown that experiencing discrimination increases risk for stress, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and early mortality. So how does one mitigate…
Mar 22, 2018
A Summer Spent on Cancer Research
Caroline Beneville ’20 served an internship at NYU’s Center for Genomics & Systems Biology that was supported by Lafayette’s Bossak/Heilbron Internship…
Dec 7, 2017
What Turtles Can Teach Us About the Winter Blues
By Katie Neitz If the dark days of winter make you feel blue, low-level signaling by melanopsin may be to blame. Melanopsin, a light-sensitive protein…
Nov 25, 2017
A Tale of Two Countries
By Katie Neitz Continuing debates over health care reform in the U.S. and National Health Service funding in the U.K. made the focus of a short-term study…
Jul 19, 2016
Impacting the World
Explaining the significance of studies by the National Institutes of Health related to heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders rests on the shoulders of…
Mar 26, 2015
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Lauren Cesanek ’15 Channels Passion for Environment into Research
Childhood vacations to the beaches at Wildwood, N.J., created more than fond family memories for Lauren Cesanek ’15 (Whitehall, Pa.)—ocean and beach…
Dec 8, 2014
Prof. Megan Rothenberger Coaches Students through Course-Based Research
For Megan Rothenberger, the best way to coach students as they put the scientific method into action is through course-based research. The students in…
Sep 12, 2014
Student Team Studies Neurodevelopmental Disorders
By Sean Grim ’14 Imagine yourself lying in bed, hearing and feeling sensations, but unable to move a muscle beyond blinking. This is a constant reality…