Three Wilkes University students are spending part of the summer at the Toolik Lake Field Station, 170 miles north of the Arctic Circle, researching the effects of climate change on plants. The students – seniors Stephen Turner of Plains, Pa., Darrel Dech of Allentown, Pa., and Steve Forney, from Easthampton Township, …
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Wilkes University Scientist Leads Research Team Awarded $1 Million National Science Foundation Grant
by Web ServicesTeam Will Study Effect Of Climate Change On Plant Life Ned Fetcher, scientist and coordinator of the Institute for Environmental Science and Sustainability at Wilkes University, is the principal investigator on a research team that has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the …
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Technologies for revolutionizing breast cancer detection and imaging and for improving the treatment of neurological disorders are among the research projects with practical implications originating in the lab of Abas Sabouni, associate professor of electrical engineering. Sabouni has invented a device that could allow breast cancer survivors to identify a recurrence …