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A new research collaboration between ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) aims to improve understanding of peripheral neuropathy, a painful and often life-altering side effect experienced by breast cancer survivors involving damage to the nerves that can interrupt daily function. 

A computer program so adept at playing the game Go that it could beat the world's best players changed the career plans of computer science assistant professor Simin Chen.

A cross-university team is transforming nursing education through interactive games that make complex clinical topics more engaging.

A ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ study finds higher anxiety rates among women and sexual minorities, with medication use doubling in the latter group.

A pair of accounting professors at ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s Songdo (South Korea) campus discovered that CEOs with formative Korean War memories reacted differently to perceptions of downside risk.

Edward Oughton, associate professor of geography and geoinformation science in the College of Science, was recently awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation for space weather prediction and non-terrestrial cybersecurity.

Imagine sitting at home, listening to music you enjoy, and a secret, malicious audio message—imperceptible to human ears—tells your home assistant to transfer money from your bank account. Computer science associate professor Qiang Zeng is developing a way to fight such silent attacks.

This summer, classrooms gave way to labs, field sites, and data sets as ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ faculty and students partnered to tackle some of society's most pressing challenges.

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ researcher Celso Ferreira is helping two Virginia towns prepare for flooding through advanced hazard mapping and resilience planning.

A new project by statistics faculty member Brenda Betancourt examines how researchers assess and report the uncertainty that arises when medical records from different sources are linked.

4-VA@Mason, part of the 4-VA state network, has announced 20 collaborative research awards for ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year. The selected proposals were chosen from the largest number of submissions received since the program’s inception more than a decade ago. 

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ-led researchers created a new framework to understand how survivors of sexual violence make decisions and seek help on college campuses, the "Survivor's Calculus," which shows how the burden of navigating resources often falls on the survivor.