Published in Nature Communications, a new study from Prasun Guha’s (Life Sciences) laboratory, led by Sujan Chatterjee (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) et al., discovered that the small molecule IP6 (phytic acid) acts within the nucleus and is essential and sufficient for activating the HDAC3 epigenetic axis. The study further…

Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) has co-authored a new research article titled “On Martínez-Kaabar fractal-fractional double Laplace transformation,” published in the Ain Shams Engineering Journal, an Elsevier journal ranked in the top 25% (Q1) of engineering journals with an Impact Factor of 5.9. The paper presents a significant…

Yan Zhou (Physics and Astronomy) received a five-year Early Career Award from the Department of Energy in the amount of $875,000. By integrating techniques from trapped-ion quantum information processing with the exceptional sensitivity of molecules, Zhou’s team will develop a tabletop experiment capable of probing combined Charge and Parity (CP)…

Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematics) has published new research article in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing (Q1 Journal according to the SCI-E of Web of Science), Journal of the Korean Society for Informatics and Computational Applied Mathematics, published by Springer Nature. The article introduces the Fractal-Fractional…

Renee Olney (Radiochemistry PhD candidate) has been selected for the Training in Radiological and International Security (TRAINS) Fellowship sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Onley is a first-generation graduate student and one of only five students in the…

The Brain Injury Translational Research (BITR) lab proudly presented posters at the UMC 8th Annual Poster Symposium help Nov. 5-6, 2025.  Hana Sourjah, Dihini Perera, Ph.D. student Joe Cadiz, and Hyunhwa "Henna" Lee (all Nursing) received the 2nd Place Award in the Healthcare Student category for their…

Mohammed K. A. Kaabar (Mathematical Sciences) will gave  a seminar talk titled, "On Martínez-Kaabar Fractal-Fractional Calculus: Methods & Analysis," on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, at the Seminar on PDEs and Related Topics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences. In this talk, an overview of the idea of fractional calculus is…

Helen J. Wing (Life Sciences) has been invited to give a seminar in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on Nov. 6. She has also been named the 2025 Marsha Betley Named Lecturer.

Jason Steffen (Physics and Astronomy) gave a public lecture as part of the science series for the Goettingen Literary Festival in Germany. This invitation was for his book "Hidden in the Heavens" about NASA's Kepler mission. The festival spans two weeks in October and November. Several dozen speakers, including journalists, athletes, authors,…

Jichun Li (Mathematical Sciences) co-edited a book on Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, which contains 31 papers and published in the book series: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics;(PROMS, volume 486).

Farhad Shokoohi (Mathematical Sciences) received acceptance for his paper titled, “Uncovering Alterations in Cancer Epigenetics via Trans-Dimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Hidden Markov Models,” in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics). The study introduces a novel statistical…

Drew Peltier (Life Sciences) co-authored a new journal article in New Phytologist quantifying drought mortality effects in global tree ring datasets. The paper is titled "Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings."