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Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science
Torsten Hegmann, director of 91²Ö¿â's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.

91²Ö¿â’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.

Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science
Torsten Hegmann, director of 91²Ö¿â's Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, shows the area in the basement of the Integrated Sciences Building where a new X-ray scattering machine will be installed in 2021.

91²Ö¿â’s Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute soon will be home to a new X-ray scattering instrument capable of examining materials in scales from as small as a fraction of a nanometer to as large as several micrometers.

91²Ö¿â professor John Gunstad and his research assistants Hanna Schmetzer and Victoria Sanborn demonstrate using the voice pattern technology that is part of his Alzheimer's disease research.

91²Ö¿â psychology professor John Gunstad, Ph.D., has received at grant of nearly $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to expand his Alzheimer’s disease research into a national study.

Lauren Kinsman-Costello, assistant professor of biological sciences at 91²Ö¿â, stands in a field in the arctic circle, in Sweden.

In early February, scientists reported the hottest temperature on record in Antarctica: 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Studies show climate change is disproportionately affecting the poles, warming them faster than anywhere else on Earth, and raising questions about what kinds of changes we can expect in arctic ecosystems as temperatures rise. 
A 91²Ö¿â biologist has teamed up with some colleagues in an inter-institutional effort to answer some of those questions.


In 1901, the 16 Major League Baseball teams produced 455 home runs. Players were discouraged from attempting it. Nearly 120 years later, players couldn’t seem to help themselves, and MLB smashed all previous records. More homers might mean more exciting games, but some people question why the spike happened. A 91²Ö¿â chemist thinks he has some clues about this unusual surge in home runs.

Materials Science Graduate Program: Graduate Education on Soft Matter Science
Mietek Jaroniec, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of 91²Ö¿â’s College of Arts and Sciences, was appointed to the editorial board of the journal Science Advances.