Imagine a complex system of gears—each wheel turning with interlocking teeth. Throw in a wrench, and everything stops. Dr. Arnab Sengupta, an assistant professor of cell and molecular biology, mulls over that scenario every day. Only, in his case, the wheels are cells and the wrench, stress. If Sengupta and his team of undergraduate researchers can learn enough about cells and what causes them to shut down or keep producing, they could someday help stop cancer. “From a cell’s perspective,...