Jennifer Ruark

Text by Jennifer Ruark, photographs by Ash Ponders, video by Ash Ponders and Michael Theis, interactive by Ron Coddington July 3, 2025 Andrew P. CapaldiAsh Ponders for Chronicle Ten years ago, biologists who wanted to figure out how cancers grow could measure the signaling inside cells, one protein at a time. Today, they can measure 20,000 proteins at once. They do that with mass spectrometry machines, two of which can be found at the University of Arizona. Each costs $800,000.

From: Len Gutkin Subject: The Review: Positive Psychology, or Positively BS? “The curse of working in this area is having to distinguish it from Chicken Soup for the Soul." That's what UNC's Barbara Fredrickson, who is prominent in the field of positive psychology ("We study people's emotions, particularly their positive emotions.") told the Chronicle's Jenny Ruark back in 2009.

The Ticker Breaking news from all corners of academe. November 19, 2011 Spurred by the sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University, a state lawmaker plans to introduce legislation to end the university’s exemption from open-records requirements, The Morning Call, a Lehigh Valley newspaper, reports. Changes that strengthened the state’s open-records law in 2008 exempted Penn State, along with Temple University, Lincoln University, and the University of Pittsburgh.