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ʦapp Moves Up in 'U.S. News & World Report's'  List of Top Universities
September 14, 2020
ʦapp moved up in the U.S. News & World Report list of "Top Public Schools," to No. 136 in this year's ranking of the nation's best universities. ʦapp ranked No. 140 in 2020.
Guilt by Dissociation: Study Sheds Light on Serotonin in Autism
September 02, 2020
A study by a leading ʦapp neuroscientist and collaborators on serotonin, a mood-regulating molecule in the brain that regulates many brain synapses, is helping to unravel a neurotransmitter puzzle.
Ashley Kennedy
August 20, 2020
The Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College is pleased to announce the appointment of professor Ashley Kennedy, Ph.D. to the position of Assistant Director of the Leon Charney Diplomacy Program.
ʦapp Celebrates Summer 2020 Graduates
August 12, 2020
ʦapp will confer more than 1,900 degrees for the summer 2020 semester in a special virtual ceremony.
ʦapp's ACI Receives $1.5M Grant from The Taft Foundation
August 05, 2020
ʦapp's Academy for Community Inclusion (ACI) within the Department of Exceptional Student Education in the College of Education recently received a $1.5 million grant from The Taft Foundation.
New Study on Development of Parkinson's Disease is 'On the Nose'
August 03, 2020
The loss of a sense of smell is known to be one of the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease (PD). In a new study, an ʦapp neuroscientist and colleagues link inflammation, olfaction and pathology seen in PD.
 Susan Schneider, 2019-2020 Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. 2019. Photo courtesy of Giselle M. Avilés.
July 14, 2020
ʦapp recently announced that the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, in collaboration with ʦapp’s Brain Institute, hired Susan Schneider, Ph.D., to the position of William F. Dietrich Chair...
Itzel Sifuentes-Romero and group
July 14, 2020
ʦapp Jupiter researchers are investigating the evolution of eye loss in Mexican cavefish. Itzel Sifuentes-Romero, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow working in the lab of Johanna Kowalko, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology at...
ʦapp Names Justin Perry, Ph.D., as New Dean of Wilkes Honors College
July 01, 2020
ʦapp has named Justin Perry, Ph.D., as the new dean of the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College.
image of Dr. Moore
June 24, 2020
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Faculty Jon A. Moore, Ph.D., and Susan L. Richardson, Ph.D., were recently published in a new book titled “Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode.”