WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Oct. 1 -- William and Mary issued the following news release:
Where does research show up in daily life? Perhaps it is obvious in a faster diagnosis for patients fighting a drug resistant infection, or in a middle school math class, where new tools can help a teacher follow how every small group is reasoning through a problem. Maybe it's in the crisis that never comes to pass because policymakers participated in a tabletop exercise that taught them what pitfalls to avoid.
Regardless, at the beginning of a chain reaction that ends with research changing even a single person's life for the better, there's often a scholar at a university who's devoted their life to investigating a specific set of hard-to-answer questions....