Meng Chen, a professor of botany and plant sciences, helped find a gene that enables plants to sense changes in temperature. It's an essential element of helping plants endure warmer temperatures.
Jin-Bo Hou and Nigel Hughes, both in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, discovered an unusual fact about trilobites, that roamed Earth about 450 million years ago.
Brandon Brown, an epidemiologist and public health and medical ethics professor, says vaccine passports are a helpful way to encourage people to get vaccines, and that a vaccine requirement for travel isn't a new idea.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, psychology professor, at the University of California at Riverside, says she expected much bigger declines in well-being during the pandemic than she saw in her study on happiness.
Richard M. Carpiano, professor of public policy and sociology, says the idea of a vaccine passport raises privacy concerns, including fears of government monitoring and how third parties might use medical information.
Edward Chang, a Korean American professor of ethnic studies, says as victims of racial hatred, Asians need to become more active against injustice, reporting cases of hate incidents and fight back, and demanding representation.
Political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan says that during the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris received an outpouring of enthusiasm among South Asians and among Asian Americans more broadly.
David Lo, professor of biomedical sciences and senior associate dean of research, says the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak in a community is high, because it only takes one infected person to start it.
Astrophysicist Stephen Kane thinks one of the best arguments for Venus missions is that they will help us understand exoplanets, since Venus and Earth likely looked very similar for most of their history.
Yujie Men, assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering, is trying to learn how microbes could help break down PFAS - environmental contaminants that are difficult to degrade.
Psychology Professor Sonja Lyubormirsky’s study on happiness shows the U.S. with larger gaps in rankings between rich and poor than most other wealthy countries.
Sociologist Ellen Reese says more and more workers are joining the ranks of the underpaid who have no path to stable employment. To make gains, she says they will need to organize.