Chinua Achebe, the most celebrated and widely read African writer, has been named the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies.

It’s not just about lungs. Air pollution can hurt your heart. Gregory Wellenius worries especially about the heart and the blood vessels going to the brain.

In college while the human genome was being sequenced, Erica Larschan was fascinated by the larger question: How is the whole thing regulated?

Finding a way to let machines see and understand what’s going on in the world around them will open vast new possibilities for social and economic change. James Hays is at work on scene understanding.

Crude oil will be an essential energy source for the foreseeable future. Organometallics could be a very important key to releasing energy from hydrocarbons cleanly and more efficiently.

The act of exercising — the sweat, the fatigue, the boredom — is not what makes people feel good and brings them back for more. That’s what intrigues David Williams: He is hunting for the actual motivators that will keep people active.

In a book project currently underway, political economist Mark Blyth asks whether liberalism — the cognitive and normative underpinning of Western capitalism — can survive the 21st century.

Religious ideas and spiritual life often lie near the heart of a society.  That’s where historian Linford Fisher begins his work on colonial-era Native American cultures.

How useful would it be to harness the speed of light at the nanoscale of electronics? Domenico Pacifici intends to find out.

An appointment in both political science and public policy is a happy combination for Susan Moffitt — political science offers frameworks for understanding political puzzles, and public policy applies those frameworks to policy problems.