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Lymphedema study results could be a game-changer for breast cancer patients and survivors. The Ģ����Ƶ-led trial found that patients with early detection who used L-Dex with additional intervention were less likely to progress to chronic lymphedema than patients monitored with a tape measure receiving the same intervention. 

Assistant Professor Megan Simmons has been named academic director for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Specialty at the Ģ����Ƶ School of Nursing, effective August 1. 

Reported June 13 in Neurology, an Alzheimer’s disease risk study from Ģ����Ƶ Medical Center measures significantly reduced risk associated with healthy lifestyles, including non-smoking, leisure-time exercise, low-to-moderate alcohol consumption, adequate sleep and healthy diet.

In a new study led by Ģ����Ƶ Medical Center researchers, women who filled two or more prescriptions for opioids after childbirth faced a 46% greater risk of death than women who did not.

Ģ����Ƶ and the Ģ����Ƶ Project on Unity and American Democracy hosted a live virtual discussion June 7 to discuss the nation's mass shootings and the continued divisiveness about gun violence and legislation. Read More

The integration of cinema and science is at the foundation of Ģ����Ƶ professor Daniel Levin’s research. Levin teaches Film and Psychology in addition to other classes that examine how cognitive science and the arts collide.  Read More

“Dare to Grow” Commencement Address by Chancellor Daniel Diermeier Ģ����Ƶ May 13, 2022 To graduates of the Class of 2022; to parents, families and guests; to members of the faculty and the Board of Trust; to our staff volunteers and to graduates from the Class of… Read More

In response to nationwide deficits of registered nurses, Ģ����Ƶ School of Nursing is launching a four-semester Masters in Nursing program. The program is open to people with a bachelor’s degree in other fields and will begin in spring 2023. Read More

An international team that included researchers from Ģ����Ƶ Medical Center has discovered a molecular switch that induces rapid proliferation of zymogen granule-secreting chief cells in the stomach to regenerate damaged tissue.

Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, is a co-author of the study “Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions.” The report will be published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on May 18. Read More

A team led by Ģ����Ƶ researchers has described and characterized the first zinc metallochaperone: a protein that puts zinc into other “client” proteins.

Chancellor Daniel Diermeier congratulated the Class of 2022 for their “persistence, patience and above all, courage” during the past four years when he delivered his Commencement address at Ģ����Ƶ Stadium on May 13. An estimated 14,000 guests joined graduates of the university’s 147th class during an in-person main ceremony that was livestreamed on Ģ����Ƶ’s website. Read More

Since 1877, Ģ����Ƶ has awarded a gold medal to the student graduating with first honors from each of the university’s 10 schools and colleges. The awards are named after the university’s founder, Cornelius Ģ����Ƶ, who made a contribution to endow the awards in their first year. Read More

Ģ����Ƶ has honored 35 retiring faculty members for their years of service by bestowing upon them the title of emerita or emeritus faculty. They were recognized during Ģ����Ƶ’s Commencement ceremony on May 13. Read More

Reid Hoffman, who played integral roles in founding the companies PayPal and LinkedIn, called on Ģ����Ƶ’s Class of 2022 to invest in true, substantial and enduring friendships as they set out on the next phases of their lives. Read More

Ģ����Ƶ research that promotes the anti-inflammatory pathway in macrophages could also reduce some of the bad side effects of obesity.

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and generates robust immune responses in children ages 6 to 11 years, a national clinical trial co-led by C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, has found.

Christopher M.S. Johns, the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of Fine Arts and professor of history of art and architecture, died at his home on May 8 after a long illness. Read More

U.S. Cyber Command Director Gen. Paul Nakasone, former President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid and a range of military and intelligence leaders, scholars, prominent journalists and private sector experts in cybersecurity, energy and finance convened at the Ģ����Ƶ Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats May 4–5. Read More

Ģ����Ƶ research shows that the virus that causes COVID-19 can develop partial resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir during infection of cultured cells in the laboratory by more than one mechanism.