A recent study co-led by PBS professors Daniel Kennedy and Brian D’Onofrio, which tracked the eye movement of twins, found that genetics plays a strong role in how people attend to their environment.
Conducted in collaboration with researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, the study offers a new angle on the emergence of differences between individuals and the integration of genetic and environmental factors in social, emotional and cognitive development. The implications of the findings are great insofar as visual exploration is also one of the first ways infants interact with the environment, before they can reach or crawl.
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PBS’s Tom Busey on the science behind crime scene investigation
By Lana Ruck- We’ve all seen it on a TV crime series – fingerprints taken from a crime scene are put into a computer, instantaneously matched to a person of interest, and voila! The crime is solved. As with many aspects of TV crime drama, however, fingerprint analysis is more complicated in real life. The reason? As PBS professor Tom Busey explains, human experts, not computers, actually do much of the work.
GO TO STORYProfessor Sharlene Newman was one of four Bloomington women to be collectively named 2018 Woman of the Year for a collaborative study examining the implicit biases of black and white young adults in Bloomington.
