Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences and Wharton School and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania led a collaborative megastudy to investigate whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn math. “Our results showed that simple, low-cost nudges can help teachers support student progress in math,” Duckworth says.

A new study from University of Toronto Engineering researchers points to practical strategies to prevent deaths from opioid poisoning by optimizing the distribution of naloxone kits. 

In a paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Professor Timothy Chan and his team showed that placing naloxone kits in transit stations could help ensure that these potentially life-saving tools are present where they are most needed.

Biomedical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have decoded how mechanical forces drive cell behavior in fibrosis.