Historic iceberg surges offer insights on modern climate change 

Bringing warm surface water north and cold deep water south, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a major component of the global climate system, influencing marine ecosystems, weather patterns and temperatures. It’s also regarded as a potential tipping element of the Earth’s climate.

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Understanding aging on a cellular level

With a New Investigator Award from the Hevolution Foundation and American Federation for Aging Research, researcher Max Wilson will investigate how a particular stress-signaling pathway — the integrated stress response (ISR) — contributes to aging, and how its mechanisms degrade or change with age.

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Shining a light on new chemical reactions

Chemistry professor Yang Yang is using photobiocatalysis — the use of light to enable and accelerate enzymatic reactions — to create new, not naturally occuring amino acids.

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