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Researchers Farrokh Alemi and Kevin Lybarger receive 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s first Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award to develop innovative AI technology, including large language models, for improving antidepressant recommendations.

Professor in the School of Nursing Rebecca Sutter will establish program to address the social, physical, and mental health and wellness needs of Afghan victims of combat.

Funding from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) will create the School Nurse Leadership Academy, a first-of –its-kind program dedicated to fostering leadership in school nursing.

Weiwen Jiang in 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's College of Engineering and Computing has two new NSF grants to tackle challenges in quantum computing.

An NSF grant looks at Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) within AI technology and the ways it can function safely and reliably within autonomous systems.

A 51³Ô¹ÏÍø interdisciplinary team is studying underwater explosions and their effects on civil engineering infrastructure with the support of a $1.5 million grant from Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Professor of Nursing Rebecca Sutter, along with faculty and students across colleges, will lead the creation of an interprofessional Learning Laboratory for Community Health.   

Siddhartha Sikdar and several colleagues from CASBBI received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative to study chronic myofascial pain. The team will first develop biomarkers to study the association between muscle tissue abnormality and pain, and then conduct clinical trials to test two different interventions.

Mason researchers Jeffrey Moran in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rémi Veneziano in the Department of Bioengineering, and Monique van Hoek, a microbiologist in the School of Systems Biology, won the NBIB R21 Trailblazer award. The team will research methods to dissolve harmful biofilms.

A new grant brings the Schar School and Duke University together in an effort to help U.S. communities devastated by the opioid crisis.