Non-AAARI News

Eliminating physical activity disparities between male and female youth could save hundreds of millions of dollars, new study says

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This study, led by researchers from the Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH) at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), contributes to the growing body of evidence suggesting that targeted interventions can have a profound … Read more

LaGuardia Community College Biology Major Tabia Tarannum Wins Competitive Kaplan Leadership Fellowship

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LaGuardia Community College/CUNY biology major Tabia Tarannum, 19, has been selected as a 2024 Kaplan Leadership Fellow. Tabia, a first-generation college student who hails from Bangladesh, plans to graduate from LaGuardia in the spring of 2025 and, with Kaplan’s financial support, aims to transfer to a prestigious institution, e.g., Stanford or Harvard, to pursue a … Read more

Maternal Stress and Epigenetics: Healthier Generations Begin in Utero

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Dr. Yoko Nomura, a professor and researcher at The City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College and the Graduate Center, is working to change this through her groundbreaking research on maternal stress and fetal development in the field of epigenetics—the study of gene expression changes that don’t alter the DNA itself.

CCNY discovery creates new possibilities for water-responsive materials

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The experts, including chemical engineers Raymond Tu and Xi Chen, mechanical engineer Honghui Yu, and postdoctoral associate Darjan Podbevsek (power and process engineering), determined how water interacts with biomaterials at the molecular level to yield high energy density water responsiveness.