Two graduate students in Robert Hill's research group have been awarded prestigious predoctoral fellowships, and, with a third, have co-authored an article recently published in Nature Neuroscience.
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Record-breaking rainfall across the northeastern United States is part of a larger trend, a new study suggests. Since 1996, states from Maine to West Virginia have seen an abrupt increase in extreme precipitation—heavy rain and snow resulting in storms that can produce up to 2 inches of water a day, depending on location. These extreme events—tropical cyclones, thunderstorms along fronts, and extratropical cyclones like Nor'easters—have coincided with warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.
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Last week marked the conclusion of Guarini's Academic Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (ASURE) Program in partnership with The Leadership Alliance. ASURE provides summer research experience to undergraduates with an opportunity to focus on academic research, networking, and mentoring in their respective fields.
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The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) has recognized Nabila Riaz as an ASPB Ambassador.
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Long-term paleoclimate records show that the Earth's past climate has repeatedly experienced large, abrupt climate shifts with major ecological impacts. Such drastic shifts are of great interest as they give clues to controls and sensitivity of future extreme climate response.
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