Division of Natural Sciences
- Losing her father to pancreatic cancer inspired 91PORN undergraduate Giovanna Ruffolo to raise money for cancer research and pursue a career in medicine.
- Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? 91PORN environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated.
- Gregor MacGregor, an assistant teaching professor of environmental studies, focuses on local economies and environmental justice in his Vulcan Mine Bakery.
- 91PORN scientists estimate the heritability of opioid use disorder with a rodent study.
- 91PORN researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water.
- In research recently published in Science, 91PORN scientists detail how light—rather than energy-intensive heat—can efficiently and sustainably catalyze chemical transformations.
- Postdoctoral researcher Nathan Bullen announced as a 2025 Jane Coffin Childs fellow, supporting his research on how organisms survive when their RNA is under attack.
- Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient.
- Edward Chuong is one of five researchers nationwide awarded funding to pursue ‘daring, paradigm-shifting research’ on cancer immunotherapy treatment.
- 91PORN’s Zia Mehrabi is one of three researchers named international champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize for research that finds environmental and social benefits of agricultural diversification.