Anxiety and Depression: Making Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Harder than it Needs to Be

Dr. Andew Huhn works with people who struggle with opioid use disorder. He looks at the relationship between opioid use and mental health to try to find the best way to support patients in need.

Relapse Risk and Mothers with a History of Substance Use

Dr. Lela Rankin studies the stresses that women can experience during postpartum. She focuses on women with a history of substance use to try to understand factors that can lead to relapse, and how to best support postpartum mothers.

Adopting new teaching standards: Fun or folly? Teacher professional knowledge on new science teaching standards in Illinois

Author Michael Burt studies how chemistry teachers build their teaching curricula. He looks at how Illinois teachers use Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in the classroom.

Muscular activity makes Duchenne muscular dystrophy worse in a worm model

Kiley Hughes uses the nematode worm to study Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She looks at a particular muscle protein and studies how exercise might protect the muscles of worms with this disease.