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New Study Shows Peer Pressure Could Help Teens Make Safer Choices
Peer pressure, a powerful influence in the lives of students, has rather negative connotations in society, which includes the influence of peers on juvenile delinquency and the use of alcohol or cigarettes. According to a new study, affiliated with UNIST, observing social peers making safe choices may lead some teens to make healthy decisions than they would otherwise.
Professor Dongil Chung from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with neuroscientists from Virginia Tech in the United States, has examined the influential power of safe teenagers among peers in a new neuroeconomics study. Using quantitative model-based analyses, they identified behavioral and neural evidence that observing others’ safe choices increases the subjective value and selection of safe options for substance-naïve relative to substance-exposed adolescents.
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IMAGE: Daniela Cimini examines her notes about centrosome activity in cells with a doubled genome. Her team s current project focuses on the relationship between centrosomes and the microenvironment during the development. view more
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Unlike many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic, biological cells are not isolated from the outside world. Chemical variations, intercellular activity, and other microenvironmental factors impact cell survival. The relationship between cell and environment also applies to the development of cancer, which a team of Virginia Tech scientists is now researching.
After receiving a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers across multiple disciplines are launching a study to investigate tumor development within a natural environment.
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Raj Rao, Mark Power and Jim Coleman were honored by the American Red Cross for helping save the life of fellow employee Heather Nachtmann after a heart attack.
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IMAGE: Prof. Thomas H. Epps, III directs the $18 million UD Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials (UD CHARM), which will drive forward fundamental materials science research with the potential. view more
Credit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson | Illustration by Joy Smoker
Thomas H. Epps, III, the Allan and Myra Ferguson Distinguished Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been named to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
Epps, who has a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and an affiliated appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was nominated, reviewed and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for outstanding contributions to the self-assembly of polymeric materials for drug delivery and gene therapy applications.