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Tennessee Tech students are testing a series of chemical compounds that show promise of stopping cancer in its tracks. TTU is collaborating with cancer centers, including the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, for further studies and possible testing on patients, especially women with breast cancer. Breast cancer cells over-express a certain enzyme called Topoisomerase II for DNA replication, which is specifically targeted by these new agents.

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A Tennessee Tech University alumnus' company is building robots that the U.S. Navy is testing. Developed using TTU research, robots could help repair our deteriorating infrastructure.

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TTU engineering and business students have been working together to design packaging and marketing plans to launch a variety of Turkish products in the U.S. They will travel to Turkey this semester to discuss the feasibility of their work at a partner university.

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A doctoral candidate at Tennessee Tech University has created a hydrogel that makes it much easier separate proteins to study a biological sample, such as a blood test. His work, which was recently patented, could be revolutionary.

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Tennessee Tech University students engineer systems to aid a TTU alumnus in the search to find six people, including a medical aviation missionary, who went missing the jungles of Venezuela.

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The Occupy Wall Street protest – and similar protests cropping up nationwide – are not spontaneous, according to Thomas Ratliff, sociology professor at Tennessee Tech University.

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Scientists at Tennessee Tech University are fishing with electricity to monitor the health of the Caney Fork River and the effects of dam repairs on the fish populations. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been making repairs to the dam for several years and contracted TTU biologists to study the river ecosystem.

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Tennessee Tech University civil engineering professor Faisal Hossain recently went to Washington, D.C. to present his research about dams' effects on local climate. He went at the invitation of policymakers who were looking to learn about the need for more flexibility when building large dams.

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James Jordan-Wagner, an expert in sovereign debt markets, is available to talk to reporters about the looming debt crisis.

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As students stock up on pens, pencils and the latest fashion trends, their teachers are brushing up lesson plans and re-training themselves in patience. New teachers are learning everything for the first time and their nerves are in the same tense state as many of their students.

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Researchers investigating how large dams can affect local climates say dams have the clear potential to drastically alter local rainfall in some regions. The study—published in Geophysical Research Letters— marks the first time researchers have documented large dams having a clear, strong influence on the climate around artificial reservoirs, an influence markedly different from the climate around natural lakes and wetlands.

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One of the world’s leading scholars about the Kurds, Michael Gunter, a Tennessee Tech University political science professor, has strong opinions about drawing down of U.S. troops in Iraq. Reporters interested in the topic are invited to interview Gunter on how this affects Iraq, the Kurds, U.S. policy in Afghanistan and domestic issues, including upcoming elections and the economy.

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Fisheries researchers at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tenn., found one piece of a scientific puzzle that just may help save the endangered pallid sturgeon from extinction.

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Teachers and childcare workers who want to create a learning environment that promotes each child's success and minimizes the occurrence of challenging behaviors and undesired responses can turn to advice from two Tennessee Tech University professors.

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Wind power received a gust of support as the U.S. Department of Energy announced funding for 28 new wind energy projects, including an award to Tennessee Tech University for more than a quarter million dollars.

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Dramatic quality assurance systems will soon be implemented in teacher education programs across the nation, and Tennessee Tech University's College of Education is at the forefront of testing one of six national models.

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iPod Touch devices, pocket-size, portable media players capable of wireless Internet connection, go into the hands of every student in one section of Jeremy Wendt's educational technology course each semester.

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With many people trying to tighten their belts both physically and fiscally right now, Tennessee Tech University nutrition professor Cathy Hix-Cunningham offers 10 tips for selecting foods that are both healthy and economical.

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If your valentine asks for caviar to celebrate the day, you'll have to stop and think about its current price and scarcity "” and even if your gift was illegally harvested in Tennessee.

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As Turkey threatens to invade Northern Iraq, an American professor is launching the first strikingly positive look at the Kurdish problem in Iraq and Turkey.

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Free market reforms affecting traded goods, capital and labor markets in Mexico and Venezuela have done more to hurt than to help most workers and their families in those countries. That's the conclusion of Jon Jonakin, a Tennessee Tech University economics professor, who spent spring semester 2007 studying how the two countries' economies have responded to orthodox liberalization policies that were implemented there in the 1980s and 90s.

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There's debate on whether students should fear the dreaded "Freshman Fifteen," but most evidence shows college freshmen do gain weight their first year in college. Tennessee Tech University nutrition professor Cathy Cunningham polled a class of junior level students, asking them ways to avoid the extra pounds, and came up with eight tips to help any student worried about college weight gain.

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The trickiest thing about Halloween for many parents might be trying to provide treats that help make their children healthy as well as happy, but Tennessee Tech University nutrition professor Cathy Cunningham offers some healthy alternatives to trick-or-treats and party foods.

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Chinese preschool children will have a better chance of overcoming delayed motor skills development now that the standard U.S. test has been translated into Chinese.

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Think ghost stories are only for being told around a crackling campfire at night? Think again. An assistant professor of history at Tennessee Tech University brings ghosts, myths and legends into her American history course, scaring up interest among history majors and non-history majors alike.

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Interview a media bias scholar who can give expert opinions on the soon to be aired ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11," a dramatization of the events detailed in The 9/11 Commission Report and other sources.

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Every family member's life changes when a member of the household goes off to college for the first time. Siblings may resent the relaxed rules a college student can now follow or just miss spending time with their brother or sister, while moms and dads face decisions about how to communicate and relate to a child transitioning from high school to college.

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The cooling towers on top of many large, commercial buildings may hold high numbers of infected amoebas, a threat to human health as illustrated by the 1976 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease.

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"It's not about how to take care of plants; it's about how plants can be used to take care of people." That's how Tennessee Tech University agriculture professor Douglas Airhart defines horticultural therapy, a medical practice that uses nature, plants and gardening processes as vehicles for providing a wide range of therapy and rehabilitation programs.

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There's debate on whether students should fear the "Freshman Five" or the "Freshman Fifteen," but most evidence shows college freshmen gain weight their first year in college. But college students who have been there, done that can help others avoid the weight gain.

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Will it take redirecting the mouth of the Mississippi River in order to keep the Louisiana coast a viable place to live and work in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Vince Neary, Tennessee Tech University associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, says such a bold, large-scale plan is necessary to stop the disappearance of the state's coastal wetlands "” which act as natural speed bumps against hurricanes and storm surges.

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Old McDonald had a farm, and on that farm, he had . . . a computer? While some large farms may already be using personal computers for herd management purposes, a federal plan to implement a mandatory tracking system by 2009 to help limit outbreaks of contagious livestock diseases could make it necessary for farms of all sizes to become more technologically advanced.

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While millions of his native countrymen in Bangladesh, at least half of the rural population, suffer from arsenic poisoning in their drinking water, Faisal Hossain works to find an efficient and affordable solution to manage the crisis.

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With all 25 European Union member states agreeing to start entry talks with Turkey on Oct. 3, political science professor Michael Gunter says one great lie may be laid to rest and "the greatest hope to solve the Kurdish problem in Turkey in 100 years" is poised to emerge.

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Information from space could mitigate the threat that hurricanes, rain and flood waters present to millions of people worldwide.

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In the smiles of dozens of special needs children, mechanical engineering students and education specialists see the results of a model university program that adds emotion to engineering and technical expertise to early intervention.

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Neighbors can sometimes be a bad influence on each other "” especially when they are one-celled microscopic animals called protozoa and certain bacteria that are commonly linked to food-borne illnesses, like Salmonella.

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Imagine if on September 11 rescue workers had been able to track each other with small locators emitting a signal that could penetrate through a building, metal, fire or smoke.

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The rich and famous don't usually associate champagne wishes and caviar dreams with Mississippi River basin paddlefish, but the caviar industry is paying attention to the U.S. river fish on the heels of the beluga caviar crisis.

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Cart-wheeling cables stationed throughout space with the ability to swoop down to Earth's low orbit, pick up satellites and lob them into other orbits could transform space exploration in the next 15 years.