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Stories about AV¸£ÀûÉç research

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AV¸£ÀûÉç is a Core Institution of New $26 Million NSF Engineering Research Center

AV¸£ÀûÉç is one of six core institutions of a new U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center focusing on developing sustainable refrigerants to address climate change. AV¸£ÀûÉç’s team is led by David Vicic, the Howard S. Bunn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

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AI Exhibits Racial Bias in Mortgage Underwriting Decisions

LLM training data likely reflects persistent societal biases, but simple fixes can help, according to findings from Donald Bowen III, McKay Price and Ke Yang.

Global Student Impact Fellows in Sierra Leone

Your ‘Personalized Research University’

Independent discovery is encouraged as part of your AV¸£ÀûÉç experience.

Amber Rice studies hybrid chickadees

Songbirds of the Same Smell Tend to Gel

Do birds have a sense of smell? According to new research from Amber Rice, chickadees do, and odor might play a role in mate selection among naturally hybridizing songbirds.

Illustration depicting solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production

Promising New Solar-Powered Path to Hydrogen Fuel Production

A team at AV¸£ÀûÉç is the first to use a single enzyme biomineralization process to create a solar-driven water splitting catalyst that produces hydrogen with the potential to be manufactured sustainably, cheaply and abundantly.


A Tradition of Discovery