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Imagine a future where you can optimize your health and well-being by knowing roughly how many hours of sleep to get each night, how many minutes to spend in nature, and how much vigorous exercise to engage in each day. If you’re feeling anxious or sad—simply tune the dial up or down based on your individual biometric profile. That’s what Chris Danforth envisions when talking about the Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study (LEMURS)—a longitudinal ¶¶Òõ̽̽ study he oversees that tracks how hundreds of first-year students respond to various health interventions and incentives over the course of their college experience.

LEMURS was conceived, in part, to help young people, a population with a disproportionately high rate of stress and anxiety, be healthier versions of themselves. Danforth sees technology as a natural way to reach younger populations.

Read more about the LEMURS study.

Research of this type has contributed to ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s designation by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as an R1 institution, placing it in the top tier of research universities in the U.S.