Neukom Director Dan Rockmore, "Competition this year was fierce, with a big uptick in proposals. We received 41 proposals with a total request of $1.4M. Of these, 14 projects received some combination of funding, ....for a total outlay of about $375k. It was a very difficult decision process, and I wish I could have funded many more."
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"A one-size-fits-all strategy isn't going to work for everybody," Turek-Hankins said. "It doesn't matter how much money you give someone for their bill if the AC isn't working, of if you give them a brand-new AC unit but they can't afford to run it."
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"This is not science writing—at least as we think of it today—but science storytelling, giving the reader not only information but also a strong sense of the bursts of intellectual and physical energy that animate discovery and creativity," Rockmore
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Neukom Fellow Corey Lesk '22 and mentors Justin Mankin and Jonathan Winters call into question a longstanding view that plant responses to higher CO2 will let them use less water, leaving more to flow in streams.
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"Scholars worry that, without interpretive guidance, consumers might unwittingly conflate genetic and genealogical ancestors. "You could be genetically related to someone 2,000 years ago through a distant Y chromosome or distant mitochondria, but that doesn't mean they're in your family,"
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