Chemical Insights Research Institute of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. announced today that Christa Wright, PhD, has joined the team as Director of Toxicology to expand its pollutant exposure laboratory and grow its toxicology health sciences program.

Jeremy Mobley, student success advisor in the University of Tennessee Department of Animal Science, was selected as an Outstanding New Advisor – Primary Role Award Winner as part of the 2021 Global Awards Program for Academic Advising from NACADA: The Global Network for Academic Advising.

Life depends on death — living things die, decompose and eventually become nutrients for other life. But when humans die, we’re often embalmed and buried or cremated. So are we breaking the circle of life? https://youtu.be/OBWnPo9UufE

Supported by a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and led by Robin Queen, the Kevin P. Granata Faculty Fellow and professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia will assess second anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries — a tear of the same ACL or of the ACL in the other knee — using wearable sensors. Aided by this technology, the multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team aims to develop a model that will allow for the identification of those who are at risk for a second ACL injury when they are released to return to sports.

Together by St. Jude announces plans to launch in seven new languages, offering trustworthy medical information about pediatric cancer and shared stories of hope to families around the world.