Human Nature News from the Chronicles
Compelling new research from the department of psychology on how brain structure in people differs according to how trusting people are of others:
The research may have implications for future treatments of psychological conditions such as autism, said the study's lead author Brian Haas, an…
In 1847, the Choctaw Indians at Skullyville, Indian Territory, were saddened to hear the news of the starvation in Ireland due to the potato famine. The Choctaw had experienced starvation only sixteen years earlier, when the entire Choctaw nation of people were forced to walk west by Andrew Jackson…
Extraordinary new research on how the bacterial immune system provides a way forward on correcting genetic mutations:
[UGA] researchers Michael and Rebecca Terns were among the first to begin to study the bacterial immune system. They now have identified a key link in how bacteria respond and…
Our congratulations and appreciation for the awards, presentations, new books and professional honors that distinguish Frankln faculty and their scholarship at home and abroad. A few recent examples:
Assistant professor of history Jennifer Palmer and associate professor in the Hugh Hodgson School…
In conjunction with the ongoing performances of "Mein Kampf" we mentioned yesterday (performances continung this weekend and Tues. through Sat. next week), the departments of theatre and film studies & German and Slavic studies will host of an international conference on Holocaust theatre…