The Research Project, Week Forty Three, Texas

Many of our nation’s elite private universities were started by the only educated people in the community, the clergy, and the denominations that they were members of. But eventually most of these universities became independent of the Christian denominations that founded them. That is not the case with Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the oldest…

The Research Project – Week 9, Florida Mosquitoes

Just in time for the start of mosquito season, the University of Florida has released its results on a study about why mosquitoes are attracted more to some people but not others. Working with researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine the study found, for the first time, an underlying genetic component…