Erik Katovich, assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics in the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, published a study in The Economic Journal proving the validity of a common belief: large landowners use their money to influence local politics to benefit their operations. Katovich’s study showed that large landholders in the Amazon who donate to winning municipal politicians, like a mayor, are more likely to develop soybean farming on their properties than those who donate to a losing candidate.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai an $8.5 million renewal grant to continue groundbreaking work aimed at understanding and improving long-term outcomes for children with congenital heart disease—the most common type of birth defect in the United States.

A research team led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has developed an innovative, portable, smartphone-based system for assessing sleep apnoea in individuals with different health conditions. The study, published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, in collaboration with the Guttmann Institute, shows that this technology can facilitate the early detection of a common but underdiagnosed disorder, which negatively impacts the recovery and rehabilitation of patients who have suffered a stroke.